... The Mayor eat on Thursday last, in the Crown Court, to hear informations against shopkeepers and others for b e using illegal weights and measurer. It will be seen that ( one person was fined for literally using a stone to n represent a stone weigh', or 14 lbs. The following is a n o list of the persons convicted, with the amount of their n Y respective flaps, to which must be added the sum ...

... u-. ?? R JVr 1Ups2u fe, poVeL FLAGELLATION.-.oDuring thv current week a 'Or tnarllbe mode of dealing summary punish. menthas com ounder r ournotice. AcoUntrygentlema, residin in the vicinity of Rarnecy, has for some time' past been excessively annoyed by repeated attacks made ire upon individual character, through tile medium of a dis- tY, reputable publication issued in Dougl by. Under thein ...

... 'HE PROTECTIONI i.8 OLU1OPs 01 A Panv,-rru A DIe OLtfl'Ot OF k FROTSMTO?, AfseyTI,- e Oxfordshire Asisociation for the preie t- of-T trarec has beea dissolved. It appears t. et ~ a farmers who belonged to it hadlogb1 e because they had no voice in it, su e.a5 opposed by the ruling powers wea t~ a meeting of the body for the repelf ' a cotisequeflee ?? this opposition thygt - emet g n carried ...

... NUMBER IL v3 THE GOVERNESS. so There cannot be found a more unhappily placed B re being than a young girl in the situation of a of governess. She has been graphically described as at o resembling the green swing door between the family 1 m rooms and the Kitchen, not precisely belonging to of o either portion of the house. The governess is A gr seeed by the servants as being towards them B lF a ...

... Tho two following profs mayn servo to sttengthen Mr. Boern Pitrnin's argurment, Lhat there is a necessity for L sucb a refurmn inI the ?? of our language, as will provide oni:e siga only for nny one sound. At present (Ib combinbsd letters o u g h are ueed to represent nine diffozent sounds; and there are no fewer than eighteen 01 modem of indicdting the sound of the word Mo. -u It in owing to ...

... SUR FACE WVATER. ex WARNING To rnE PIKE PHILANTHROPISTS. wI The 10ll Packet of Friday last publishes a th memorial to the municipal authorities, setting forth, RI from experience, the evil consequences of a supply Ri of surface water only, and praying that the town th mnay be furnished with pure spiing water for drink- th ing purposes, in addition to the river supply for td other uses. It is ...

... I I DELEGATE MEETING, YESTERDAY, OF POOR-LAW GUARDIANS. fi Yesterday, at noon, a meeting of deputations of Boards c of Guardians in this county, was held at the Legh Arms y Hotel, Newton, to take into consideration, and fully discuss, the whole question of county rate exp nditure, L and the best means of effecting a more economic expen- diture. Deputations from the following places were ...

... - : ' ~rr~ance. PARIS, MondayU.A banquet given yesterday by the ex- delegates of the Luxembourr,- collected 1200 g9ests at ihe Barriere de Sevres. Severatl Montagnard representatives at- tended, amongst whom were observed BIM. Joly, Felix Pyat, and Pierre Leroux. After' the companv entered the hanquet hall, the Commissary of Police of Vaugirard. as. siste*dby three peaee officers, demanded ...

... I As iroticed in our last, thc Thirty-Seventh Anniversary of' the Scottish Congregationial Union was celebrated here last week. A maeeting of the friends of' the Theological Academy Was hold in Frederick Street Chapel onl TursdaY eVVC!ing.~-Thot, Rev. Ale. Tomison of George Street, Chapel irresid'ed'attd, after dovotiolll exercises, briefly adidre,,sed thle aimetirlg, specially aihlditlng to ...

... 1* - ? ; m.r- ?ml' wl.11-111---- :1-.1 .., - -fS . I . .FLOERtGv.OaN AATqD SHRUliutnY.-If the soil of anv of the beds or clumps for masses require renewing or dsiriching by the addition of animal or vegetable manulre, it should be immediately done, that they may be ready to receive plants or seeds. Where the same, or nearly the same, plants are grown fora number'of years successively inany of ...

... l it 1tMODEL LODGING.ROUSES. : ,: To the EDITOR of the ABEnDEEN JOURNAL. D U-3DEe, 9th April, 1849. SiR.-1 regretto observe *fomMr A. W. Chalmers'letter in your paper of last veek. that the appeal which was lately madie to the Aberdeen public for funds, with whiob to esta- blish a Model Lodging House for the Working Classes, has not been respoude.l to SO liberally as could have been desired. ...

... I CONCLUSION OF TRE HARVEST.CROP- i AND MARKET,.; TEE remarkably fine weather of last week has enabled the farmers to bring the harvest to a much more favour- able conclusion than the early part of it promised; for until last week, although probably half the crop, or- mero, wag carried, all of it was in a very soft and doubtful condition. In many parts of the district there had ,en scarcely ...