... - : ' ~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 ...

... -GARDE.ING. : Ffo.owE GAmDEN.-Dahlias, if so far injured by frost-as to be, no longer, ornamental, may be eut down preparatory to their being taken -ulp in. a few days' time. .Tigridias and other summer bulbs may be taken up and laid.in a 6ol dry shed till they will part easily fromn their haulm. USlvia pateas should be taken up and potted, or planted in a frame of inoderately dry soil, where ...

... EXCOMMUNICATION OF THE DUKE OF IARGYLL.. (Frorn the London Record.) THE excommunication of the Duke of Argyll! This ap- Pears rather a-strange announcement in the present day. But it is not less strarie tha4 true. . The actor 'on- the Oc-, cirsion is the Rev. J. Wi. Trower, late the overseer of a little parish in Sussex of about sixty families,- but now, by the eletio ofnieten Eisopa, mniters ...

... CoMmIIr crAiL LZIB , , . FOn THE WEER1 ENDING ISONDA4 LAST. - EXPORTS. HALIfAAX.-I pipe linseed oil,3 boxes tobacco pipes, I cae containing stationery, brushes, beads, ornamented tapes and small wares, sand-glasses, and cutlery, G. Forbes; t- 7 boxes tobacco pipes, A -Leslie: 60 boxes starch. lo ts casks soda, D. Pirie* 8i bags Scotch barley, J. Glennie; 8 4 casks plain British spirits, Begg & ...

... WMM 2 EKL Cao DIPEBND X v. Lord Dalhousfe has contributed £500, and Lord Gougle l£40, for the vidows and orphans of those who fell at Chil- lianwallab and Ramnuggur. Three Egyptian youths have arrived in the Clyde to b-4 in- structed in themaking and building of marine encines. Two are to he educated in Messrs Scott's foundry at Grcenock, ,and one by the well- known Napier, of Glasgow ...

... (From the 'aledonian Mercury.) The varioun railways which terminate in this city have now had their hali-yearly meetings, at which the directors have submitted the usual financial exposition to the shareholders. We may say, as to one and all, that the present result is 'not eneouracing to thnae who.have invested their means in those undertakings, eminently, beneficial as these have been to the ...

... PROCEEDINGS IN THE GARIOCH, IN ONOUR OF MAJOR DISNEY LEITH. IT having become known to the Tenantry on the Estate of Freocielcd that Mlajor Robert William Disney Leith, of the 1st Bombay European Fusilier Regiment, second son of their much respected landlord, Lieutenant-General Sir Alex- alunder Leith, K B., was to arrive at Freefield, on the 28th of .June, they anxiously made all suitable ...

... UINCARD1NESIIHIRE-The weather has been remarkable fofi change during the past month-exhibiting, in a brief space, the characteristics of summer and winter. - The (;ranipians were clothed in their winter garb on the morn- ing of the 10th nltimo; and there were strong frosts on the two snecceeding nights, which blackened the potato steinsinvarions localities. Rain has fallen oa six days- the ...