... I, A meeting ofthe Town Council was held yesterday, (Thurs- day), J. Lee Smith, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair. There were present, Messrs. Bean, Blyth, Brownlow, Cook- man, Forrester. Gresham, Holmes, Jones, Ruston, Sandall, Thompson, Jones, jun , Jalland, Norman, Tapp, Cobb, Arm- strong, Dalton, Wilson, aissons, Smithson, Bannister, Watson, Horner, Spratt, Cox, Peck, Larard, Mitchell, Blundell, ...

... i I (From the TIOes). All the great and brilliant scenes that vary the drama of our history will pale their ineffectual light before the glory of that destiny which has bound her to Ireland. If the wisest of the ancients justly pronounced hins blessed whose life was spent in one continual struggle with fortune, how high must be the merits of a nation whose whole existence is a combat with the ...

... GREAT GEORGE-STREET CHAPEL S C HO0LS.I Lar Siri IC ,On Friday evening, the annual meetingof the teachere, ice and friends of these schools, which afford instruction to WI ect upwards of 1000 children, wag held in the rooms beneath ev the chapel. Between 400 and S00 persons sat down to futl hat an excellent tea, well served. The Rev. Dr. Baffles, ins to presided. T1he chairman said the object ...

... - .,,AJ&t.L.J-_ t,*AAOJf I KAI The annual meeting of this society was held yes- rerday at noon, at the Unitarian Ofiapel, Paradise- Ti street. In the absence of Henry Booth, E~q., the whic president. George H-olt.. Eaq., was called to the last, ehair. There were also prsn Thomas Thornely, staff: 1F:sq., MALI.; William Iatuibone, Esq.;; J. B. Yates, sequ, Re',q.; It. ltathbtone, lVsq.; Thomas ...

... I- . Ir JE L NNI). 8rvmiv-Msi~nui*Rl eshWiNl En in jomurnl Titi M1ZTCnzxiSLMAGOS5E`R uio.-Wftb vespect to t4 'eithat te resent uitterers of sedition and promoters of' rebel. - iii future Hin if we give them credit for sinicerity of OuitPote, we ti ad Ferdi- Wes attribute to them an~ extraordiiiary amnoun~tof ign..I b rance or wickedness, or, perhaps, a liberal admixture of' n IKing' Of both. ~ ...

... 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 ...

... -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 ...

... MI SC ELLA N ED US. A PI1ILANTIROPIST.-A gentleman who, we regret to state, was abachelorl has left the munificent sum of e3000, for the invention of a shirt without buttons 1-Punch. Mon DispERsER.-A new mode of dispersing mobs has been discovered out west, which is to supersede the necessity of military force. It is-to pass round a contribution box. REVOLUTIONARY PRIvILEUP.-Amongst the things ...

... oUR CAP_ 1B39.. O - FORTUNE KNOCKS ONCE AT LEAST AT EVERY MAN'S DooR..-PerhapS'it dsee;rbut there are many who have no sooner gone to open the door, than they find the knock proceeded from a runaway.-Punch. - A; SER' OPERA NIGHT.-' Now,' said the grim and snuffy barrister, ' you obviously know nothing-about this place; and so don't call nights brilliant, and people * good, until you are ...

... (Times.) Fifty members of the Lower House. usually distinguish- ed by their extreme views, have come forward to solicit a morecordial understanding and co-operation among such members of Parliament as are favourable to the ex tension of the suffrage, an equitable arrangement of taxa- tion, a reduction of expenditure, and the general advance of reform principles throughout England and Ireland ...

... EDTNBURGH GAZETTE. SE~rtSTRATION5S. April 14. JAMES 3I'IhnoE, wrigbt and builder in Glaygow- Creditors meet in the Crow Hotel, George Square there, 24th April and i(th MXay, twelve o'clock. April 17. AtL;rn. OLIVER RtErELL, civil engineer and insu- rance broker, residing, in Edinburgh-Creditors meet in the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse there, 25th April and 23d May, two o'clock. April 18. JonS ...