... The general weekly average price of grain, for the week ending Nov. 27 :—Wheat, 525. lid.; Barley, 31s. 6d.; Oats, 225. lOd, Rye, ?2s. lOd.; Beans, 6d.; Pease, 4Ss. sd. The average price of brown or Muscovado sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending November 30, 1847, is 238. 4£d. per cwt. A Beef Association has been established at Montrose. They advertise boiling pieces ...

... NORTH WALES— SCENERY & SIMPLICITY. Our Welsh land possesses the enviable characteristic ot being exempt from those huge and sanguinary crimes that seem at once to shock and fa cinate the world, and ,v . e . ® r a^ er , journalists fit subjecs for stunning leaders and faithful sketches, illustrative of the horrible and the mysterious. The stern grandeur of our heights, the g oom and desolation ...

... COMMITTEE ON COMMERCIAL DISTRESS. TRhn motion for the nomination of the members to serve on this Committee, on. Monday week, led to a rather pro- tracted debate, which, however, was not attended with any practical result of much moment. The opposition to the motion was chiefly manifested in two ways. Some objected to the motion altogether, as a mere ruse, on the part of Ministers, to shift the ...

... !I PA1ROCHIAL BOARD OI' SM NICHOLAS. - The first meeting of the newly elected Board for the I Parish of St Nicholas was held, in the Girls' Hospital, on Saturday last, for the psrpose of electing a Chairman, tointing committees, And otherroutine duties incident to e aeb meeting. I The members of the Board having taken their ylaees9 -I Mr Ruzcmi in a few words moved that Baille Forbes be ...

... LONDON PROVISION MARKET. BUTTER, per cwt. ss. . CHEESES. S. S. Carlow .91 to 97 Cheshire . 54 to 70 Clonmel 0 o Co Derby 6e 64 Cork 90 91 Double Wiltshire 54 65 Limerick 86 go Thin ditto ..50 56 Waterford 82 go Berkeley 64 60 Dublin ..00 00 o BACON. Waterford..63 66 FO REIGN. IAmerican . 36 46 Friesland .. ...

... ROMAN CATUOLIC RELIEF BILL. ON Wednesday last Mr Anstey proposed, in the House of Commons, the second reading of a Bill, of which the ob- 0 ject is the same as that introduced last session, but with- out success, by Mir Watson; that object being to relieve t the Roman Catholics from the few disabilities under which they still labour, by the total or partial repeal of certain statutes. The Acts ...

... V&otaI *nteltanfe, AmRDnZEN, December 8, 1847. . irths. At 126, Ring Street, on the 24th uit., Mrs Wmn. Maitland, of a son. At Boghead of Cobairdy, on the 27th November, Mrs J. T. Mortimner, of a son. At No. 3, Low Street, Banff, on the 4th current, Mrs Wm. Grant, of a son. At Sheriffston, on the 6th inst., Mrs M'William, of a daugh- ter. At Elgin, on the 29th nIt., Mrs MIaede, of a son. At ...

... GARDENING, I FORCING SEAKALP, RHUBARB, ASPARAGUS, &C.-Although much has been written about improved modes of forcing these things, yet a few farther remarks may not be uuae- ceptable to persons of small experience. The old plan of forcing Seakale was a most expensive and unsatisfactory mode; expensive on account of the breakage of pots and the loss of labour, and unsatisfactory on account of ...

... I I TO 1he EDITOR of the-A0Z1EtE JOURNAL. Sly,-In your Journal ofthe 17th inst. there is a report of a Poor Law case,which is truly said to be of consequence to Parochial Boards and Poor-s Inspectors. I being the In- spector who brought the case forward, entirely on my own responsibility, and having lost it, find that I am held up by some as being ignorant in the way of my duty, and by others ...

... -ISCELLM~EDUS. M SC ELLA RED0 US Tnr GUEIRNSEY CInIINAL, COnE.-A thief, Convicted lately before the high tribunal of Guernsey, was sentenced to; be transported for three years to England! A BATCH Or LAWVrr. s-One hundred and sixty. eight gentlemen have given notice of their intention to apply to be admitted Attorneys in the Court of Queen's Bench. Su.SDAY Pi rres.-In one parish in Ireland the ...

... WE:DNLBDS3DA, Decomber 22, 1847. JEWIISH DISABILITMES. I THIs question, which has arisen out of the return of I Baron Rothschild as one of the representatives for the City of London, was mooted in the House of Commons, on Thursday last, by Lord John Russell. On that coca-: sion, his Lordship moved that the House resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider the civil and ...

... Gentlemen-The question of ps-ire which the corporation tproposes to give for the dock property has been so ably see' Iforth in a temperate pamphlet, headed 1 Bristol Dock Transife Schasne, that either of you can form an opinion as to its being. extravagant or not as well as myself. I shall not, therefore, go over that ground ; but it appears to me that my fellow- citizens are for the most ...