... THIS amateur society held its first exhibition, for the present season, on Wednesday last, in the saloon of Douglas' Hotel, Market Street. Despite the recent wintry weather, most of the articles exhibited were really excellent, in their respective classes, and did much credit to the members of the society. In the competition for flowers, that for the Pansy, as usual, was strong; but wve ...

... | I I - I LIABIILITY op I TPOCTOUtS TO PAY VORt MrDICAL OtELIFF. '- JAi'We have no Rleporters to lay thie prioceedings of our Courts be.I igfore the, pubijc, I Would beg leav~e, through the medium of your wieg ultdpaper, to give, a brief otatenient of the fAMt connect. edwithla carcre ln which I was defender hc a oie 0. me inl the Court held here on the ]3tbh inst.. Oil or about the 'rh of id ...

... ; THE MINISTERIAL, CRISIS. , . Lord John Russell has tentdered his resignation to-her .Majesty, and onily' holds office till -another government can betbfrnmed. The extensive 10586 ofParliamentary confidenee, or rather of Parliamentary sympat'hy, vvhi h his lordship And his colleagues ha~ve evidently 'sufferedo o' late, has pro- bably prepared most of our rea~ders for th~is result. In the: ...

... (Fromn the CircZtar of .fe3 rs Goodliffe antd Smaert.) 41, CRUJTCHED FRIABS, LoNDON, Feb. 20. Since the date of our last report we think there has been upon the whole an improved tone in the freight market. The Baltic grain freights might be expected by this time, and with open navigation, to exhibit more buoyancy, bat the relative prices of graiit here and in the Baltic, at present quite ...

... PRIlVXTg CORRESPONDENCE. LoNfDoN, 22d Febc., 1851. I A iweek is yet tWclap'sb before the introduction of' the; bill! which is proposed as a-remddy fdr the recent movemeint~gn the Part of Rome; 'apd. we cannot, perhaps, more'pi6fitbly. employ the interval tban'in the considerto fte' exed question, which is at present dividing the Chiiroh ng land, the intervening gulh pplearing to have swillw4 ...

... Eniverialvarliament. -- qu HOUSE OF LORDS-Ttesday, March 23. se5 Tre Lord Cihaoncsltlr moved the second reading of the bill for amending the law of Wills, and after explaining the inconvani- encies which attended the existing system of signatures, pro- tio posed that tho bill, if it met with their Lordshipse approbation, tlrr should be forwarded tirongh ill its stages as speedily as pos- COI ...

... ELLON HORLUICULTURAL SOCIETY. Tar Second Exhibition of this Society, for the season, took place on Tuesday the 2d current, in a shed belonging to Mir lRae. The show of fruits, flowers, and vegetables, exceeded in quantity and quality the most sanguine anticipations. FIRST CL.&SS.-AMATEURs, JnDGos-l-essrs. Diack, Foveran; Leighton, Auchlmacoy; and Murray, Ellon Castle. Two G reenhouse Plants-I, ...

... THE EARL OF FIFE'S BIRTH-DAY. BA&NFF, 6th Ootober.-The anniversary of the birth-day of the Right Hon. the Earl of Fife, always held in this town and neigh- bourhood as a general holiday, was on this occasion attended with more than ordinairy demonstrations of rejoicing. The bells rung a merry peal. From an early hour in the morning, there were the usual tokens of active preparation in the ...

... 0 (From tis Edinburgh A dcertiser.) l Tn` state of India is tranquil, but, as we said a fortnighlt go, we believe astormn is brewing on the north-western frontier. Our general reasons for thinking so are as follows:-Firstly, Ythere have been disturbances in the Yoosufzaie country, and the ir Commandant of the Guide Corps has applied to Government for reinforcements; and there is a report that ...

... .Wedsesday, October 14. m 5 The Synod met this forenoon at eleven o'clock, and was oc- t of the Synod's deep sense of the loss the Church had sustained in cc 3 the removal by death of the Rev. Mr muses of Deskford, was an- I anirously adopted, and ordered to be engrossed in the minutes, bal 3and a copy of it sent to Mr muses's relatives. If ~SAsnA-T11 OBSERVANCE. w Mr Sincrsow, the Convener of ...

... cr- ArtunIDHEEr, August 20.-Still thle season is characterized by iboet Inar-ked deficiency. tons STONEcecvRuN, August 20,-For the week ending on Satur. part ayheaegecthprbamabeset down at 9 crans. uumy, Ti nrinthbotweebcle; the few which had arie ceprtieyeal a avr oor take. The averaget evitle frtessoattidteisaut0crane per boat. Ft icll TRtAD u.2.-h vrg for the season is now aind 54cae lxpe. ...

... T A 7=--s A H E L AR. a bE THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. of - se January 13.-Last night the wind changed round to the r- southward, and the thermometer roae to 34 degrees. A speedy 6i' MO thaw followed, and the roads and :camp will once more suffer n( from the ravages of our old enemy-the mud. About a-quarter fo le past one o'clock this morning the Russians inside the line of fo ie works gave a ...