... BULs FnR Forxcr.NG.-How frequently do we hear com- E plaints about bulbs doing badly at an early season! Now we must freely confess that it is much more difficult to force bt bulbs into blossom through December and January. than in March; it is altogether a very different affair. Still, how- ever, by a strict attention to first principles, the thing will I by no means be found insurmountable. ...

... STATE OF THE FUNDS-SATRDAY. Bak BRITISH. RES Bank Stock .. 197 Brazilian Five per Cent.. Ss 3 per Cent-Red. Anne. 88 Danish Three per Cent. 3 per Cent. Con. An..87, Mexican Five 3S per Cent. i726- Permuvin N ew 3s jOer Cent. .- -89; Portuguese s per Cent_ New 5 peil~Cent. Ans. -_ Converted.. .. Long Annuities to expire Portuguese 4 perwenZ - ...

... I I HER IMAJESTY'S DEPARTURE FROM ARDVERIKIE AN0D ARRIVAL AT FORT WILLIAM. FoRT WILLIAM, Friday Evening. This, the morning of the day on whilch her Majesty, as i arranged, was to leave Ardverilie, dawned, as usual, in mist and rain. In the course of the forenoon, however, a artial clearing up took place, and fair and foul alternated Kuring the remainder of the day. The metropolitan police took ...

... SI IFBy OUR USUAL EXPRESS, SIX lOTJRS IN ANTTICIP4TION OF THE LONDINOT MAIL. LONDON, WVEDNESDAEY MIOatNiN. The Congress of the Nations has for the last week been in full operation at Brussels. As in the days of the French Re- volution, mankind have met by deputy to discuss first princi- ples. There is, however, no longer question of political theo- rems, but of customhouse regulations. It is ...

... LATEST INE S. BY SI USRAtL EZPRESS H six HiouRS I-N AIN'TICl:PATIO-N OF THE LON DONN MALIL. LONDON, TF_:-EDSESD MrOR-1N-G. The Queen took a drive in a char-a-bane on Mondav. His -goyal EHighness Prince Albert returned from Portsmonth on Mronday afternoon. The royal dinner circle included 'her Roya] Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Hi-rboess Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady Anna Maria ...

... EDINBURGSn GAZETTE. SEQUESTRATIONS. September 17. JoN HEssrts GRaeG, lately writer and insu- rance broker in Edinburgh, presently residing in Dunblane- Creditors meet in the writing-chambers of James Bell, St James's Square, Edinburgh, 27th September and 18th October, ten o'clock. September 17. WVILL1aeL & Tnaotcs GrnMsELL & Co. mer- chants in Glasgow, and at Canton and Honet Kong-Creditors ...

... TIlE Ql7 7'N- IN TUEI1 IfI G' lLAN ?? (uFrom we t1 ?? sF' the ScL.;milm.) ?? Sept. 11 Yesterday nnorinz. while :,tr Mnie'vx t- n * ovsocl sket-ciii-- the cecierv of tile Inc1h, 1 i i Ih Sn lrince Al.P erlt. N 1 the lion. C~ampt. anti.':. an! i C''i '.ii r i. G:ltauitilichr snte h keepIer, and lir. ]- n .li.th t Ai to Lee At1i: Fores- t, to thre dielr-e itt u . 'nit' nit-asian, Oh a M;ir,! at ...

... MEETING OF VINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. _ _ . . , L . - 1 . : - -I . . I On Friday at two o'clock, a meeting of ces'tlnmen interested in the spirit ernil was held in the liatik f3lull Hotel, for the pur. pose of 0o'8isIerirg what steps ought to bh taien in referenre to certain clauses of the Cistnts bDuties' Act of last Session, whicrh miaterially affected the interests of the trade. EteMS ...

... THE FATAL ST1^;AM-BOAT EXPLOSION ON THE RIVER THAMES. II ?? mit tisIIAIitZO. IS (Feesn tier Times of Monday.) ?e During the whole of Sunday end the previous day the scene of the frirhtful accident which -ceckrred on Friday .moraine was visiteil b; thiousandlsof personsi. Among thornweremianyof those who. foi-tunately escaped with only a few bruises; and contuions: and fronm their animated ...

... LONDON , SF'PTEMlBER 22. ?? ! r~i';a'V Cop riissio .Th commlissioners for inquiring into tU' .:pplicatiOn of iron in raioway structures held their l. first meertinir at Gwd syr 1oose on Saturday. There were . present Lnrd wrotteiler, rrrifessnr W 'ilis, M.A., Capt. -lents oases, T.E., George RPennie, Esq., Eaton Hod-r- Ikins, Fn7q , and the ?? ,i- liiC EtZ, a soe of, Lieutenant Iouglas ...

... (From the Apr Observer.) The Frith of Glvde was visited by a severe gale of wind during ii the latter part of last week. A keen breeze Sprung up as Iearly ats Tuesday afternoon ;but this enabled the many crafts which bore up and down channel to hurry away at a bounding pace. Heavy rains, with a still heavier wind, closed the after-' noon of Wednesday ;-and as Thursday wore on apace a white ...

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