... UpON THE USE OF 'THE CHORUS' BY THE ANCIENT DRAMATISTS. IT has been a subject of considerable debate among critics, whether the nse of the Chorus could not be perpetuated in the modern drama. Arguments pro g1nd con, have been putforth with uncompromising tenacity on the one side, and met with unmitigated severity on the other. But the ,ircumstances in reference to which the Chorus was ori- ...

... DEATH OF Tcn MARQUIS OF BUTr.-We regret to learn that this excellent nobleman died suddenly at his seat, Cardiff'Castle, on Saturday night. His Lordship had en. tertained a small party of his friends at dinner on that evening, and retired at 10 o'clock. His absence was ob- served by Lady Bate, and in a few minutes afterwards he .was discovered by his valet lying across his bed. Medical ...

... War Office, M' arch 17. T:/+h T olo Ta -Ad ,.. 12th Light Dragootns-Frederick Arden, to be cornet, by purchase., vice Hollinshead, who retires. 14th ditto-Assistant-snrgeon Charles Hamilton Fasson. from 53d foot, to be assistant-surgeon, vice Stone, promoted on the Staff. -ugovc tnpooe 15th ditto-Cornet Thomas Conolly Pakenham to be lien- tenanW, by purchase, vice Jennyns, who retires. Cadet T ...

... ILoval *hteUleigmaet ABE1UDEX:N, Apzil Si 1848; Births. At 22, Belmont Street, on the 30th ultimo, Mrs Alexander Fowler, Of a son.' At Bendauch, on the 26th ult., MrsaWilliamson of a son At Mill of Allardyce, Bervie, on the let inst. Airs Napier, .of a son. At Kirkeoldy, on the 28tk utilt, the wife of the .Rev. James Black, of a daughter. I At Lethen House, on the 26th ult., Mrs Brodie of ...

... REJTOICINGS AT BILELACK. THn accounts of the marriage of Captain Foatrs of Blelack to Miss DRuA1UONODwore received by the teuantryofthe pro- perty with the mostvlively joy. A committee was formed, and a resolution to celebrate the happy event, by a Dinner and Ball, was immediately determined on. On Monday last, upwards of forty individuals, including guests and tenants, sat down to an ...

... I _ . . We have much pleasure in sitatin , that Mr Alexander Walker, Gardener at Mayen, Baniffbhire, has iuventeda Ma. chine or Instrument for measuring Heights and Distances, Land Surveying2 Levelling, &., which we have little doubt will be hailed with satisfaotioi by many classes of the corn- munity, especially by Government: and railway engineers, land surveyors, road contractors, and, it ...

... :Wiscenanecrm. - . COLONIAL MARKETS; FaiDA, May 26. The Colonial an0l Foreign Produce Markets have this week been obareacterised by niore' 'marked signh of improve- mnent. $ales have bot been :so~largely D~ressed forward, in- dicatin'g a better and, mor', confient feeling aniong~st the merchants. At the tiarne time the trade havepurchased stocks on a mare.extended scale, and as the ...

... j THE FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL EtLECTioN. | 11~~~~~~ ;. :. .. :. T. The ~(-From flhe Times.) Te lection of Louis 'Na~poleon Bonaparte to thO~Presil deney of the ]French' Republic inay'be'described iai~l phrase-thfe Frecichl People prefer eve a priu Macnero to besa/id Rpublic. Tho pretensionisof theiml~perialist candidate are strictly confined to the ete-entiatcharacteris-, tics of mionarohy, ...

... ALARMING RIOTS IN GLASGOW. IT is with pain we have to report that a fearful Chartist outbreak occurred in Glasgow on Monday last. The mob had shown a turbulent disposition for some days, and were assembled in thousande; when about three o'clock in the afternoon, they broke out into acts of open violence, lun- dering the bakers' shops as well as those of gunsmiths, to obtain food and arms. ...

... PROPAGATION OF PELARGONIUAIS. The old plants of these flowers which have been so gay in the window lately, have now for the most part shed their bloom, and mu;t be submitted to the treatment best adapted to the propagation of young plants, and to render themselves handsome another year. The first thing required is to cut them down to within a few inches of the pot, the operation to be ...

... -IAMSCHAL COLLEGE AND.UNIVERSITY, - - ABERDEEN. ' : 6Ijday the 7th April, the Degree of A.M. was con- :erred on the folloindg Candidates, after examinations in -the Evidences of Christianity, Latin. Greek, Natural His- s Mathematics, Natural hilosophy, Moral.Philosophy ajd iie druring sovendays-- John F. White, Aberdeen, Robert Keith, Aberdeen, Jiames Altan Rothiamay, Honourably Alexander ...

... To the EDITOR of the ABmERDEN JOURN AAL.. SIR,-Tn youz Jsurnal of the 2d instant, there appeared 3 a letter, regarding the Parochial Schools of Scotland, ad- cc c ,of that county? which is certainly calculated, if left unchal- a lenged, to misead the public, and injure our Educational Establishment. His erroneous statements havingl been cir- f culated far and wide, it therefore becomes more ...