... LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. Friday, Two o'clock, August 15. On Wednesday the weather was very showery, and the greater part of yesterday we had heavy rain, which, added to the con- tinued alarming accounts of the potatoe disease, produced a good deal of excitement in the trade.-A large business was done in Wheat, at an advance of 2d. per bushel.-Flour advanced Is. per sack and barrel, and 2s. to ...

... SCiHLESWIC - HOLSTEIN, DENMARK, AND PRUSSIA. HAMBURG, 29TrH, JULY. As the steam.ship Queen of' Scotian d, Captain Capes, leaves to-morrow morning early, I have crtdeavoured to find us hou1's Spare time to informl you wilat has been recently done in our vicinity, and elsetwhere, re- lative to tire present stite of the Danish.German scar, and the negociations towards ant accommodation be- twecn ...

... the Mouepro vi S~Itecurlp. 1, SALVS POPULI LEX SUP;:EfA. I - D A , TUESDAY, AUG UST 1, 1848. . -- . I PITCHING OF THE CAMP AT EVE, RTON. ployr men We have again the gratification of stating that vonl the peace of the town remains undisturbed, and their that the effect of the extraordinary preparations unite rade by the authorities, is to allay the apprehen. avail sions in the public mind as ...

... 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 ...

... 1, STRATHBOGIR HORTiULTuRAL -O CIETY. ,The second eompetitiinianddshowvor thiu 0ociety for-the season *as held in the sieml placeithe Duke of Richmond's IHaill Huntly, en Friday, '28tbult. A finer day or a finer eihigitilon could not have been desired, and .I11 clauss seenied desirous of taking the fullest advantage of these cir- Curstances for innocent amusement and instraetiv4 recrea* ,tion. ...

... |RAILWAYS MEETINGS.-THE DIVIDENDS. I -~ - - IYORK AND NORM MIDLAN D.00 Monday, the half- yearly general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held in York, and a dividend of 8 per cent. was declared. The line was declared to he in excellentiworkitig order, and the report unanimnously adopted. LONDON, lBuIGowT0N. AND SOUTR COAST.-At the mneeting of this company on Saturday, a dividend ...

... The annual Gathering of this most excellent Institution took; plaee in Strathdonl, on Wednesday the 93d inst., and npon no former 6d1 sion have wve witnessed a larger assem- blage oftle surrouding inhabitants oftlis most picturesque Strath, or moro enthnsiam exhlibited illustrative of the na- tional chlaracter of the Highllanider. Tile usual details of the day commenced wvithl the Gathering of ...

... l~mpea a=; - i , . ~ ~~~ .a u n nt HOUSE OF CONUMONS.-Friday. Aug. lB. In the Committee of Supply. on the vote of £,125,006 for promoting public education in Great Britain being proposed, the following interesting conversation took place, for whichI wve were unable to find room in our last. Lord Metejund called attention to thes system of educatton pursued in Scotland. He said that, until of ...

... DUBLIN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18. ZONTEMPT OF cOURT AND COMMITTAL OF MDt. JAMES MARTIN. Mr. James Martin, brother of Mr. John Martin, the p ,oprietor of the Irish Felon, having been called, and appeared at the bar, ad r atn TPrhe Chief Baron addressing him said Mr. Martin, the foremals of the jury who tried your brother has Men- tioned to the Court a circumstance which occurred upon the night that ...

... The stated mneeting of the Commission of the Free Church was held yesterday, in the h.ll of the New College, and subse- quently, by adjournment, in Free St George's Church-the Rev. Dr Clason, Moderator. Dr Begg stated, that some time had elapsed since any spe- cial effort had been made in behalf of the building fend of the Free Church, for which the sum of L.125 000 had originally been raised. ...

... TUESDAY, AUGUST 8. The Lord Provost in the Chair. After the reading of that part of the minutes of last met.- ing having reference to Bailie Stott's resolutions about the an- nrity tax, M r Clark submitted a long series of reasons of dissent from the decision come to by the Council to refer Bailie Stott's re- solutions to a colmmittee. Convener Copland remarked that Mir Clark, although a de- ...

... O I THES ?? TWE LFH OF AUGUST. (From the Inverness Courier of Wednesday ) The dawn of this important day was not this season ushered in by the firing of many double-barrels on the hills. Being the last of the week, sportsmen generally vere satisfied with a short range on the moors, more to try the mettle ot dogs, and to ascertain the numbers and strength of the young broods, than to fill the ...