... A large number of the members of this society sat down to anl elegant entertainment, on Friday se'ennight, ill the ToTitine Hotel _-AWilliam Steele, jun., Esq., President of the society, in the chair; Mr. Moffat acting as croupier. Amongst the gentlemen around the chairman were the Rev. Dr. Mi'Gilvray, Rev. Mr. Cochrane, Bailie Smith, Bailie Brodie, Mr. Easton, Mr. M'Lennan, and Mr. James ...

... - OLD.AGE, ]FIRST flPRESONS, et. VV ?? tiu fStY a tZ Northcote complained of being unwell; though he said i be.eould hardly-expect itto be otherwise at his age.; He must-think ofmtnaking up-the accounts of his life, such as it had been, though he added (checking hiniself) that he ...

... S .C 0 T LAND. Sir Robert Peel is said to have engaged, at a salary of 1 £500 per annum, a land improver from Wigtonslaire to as- 0: sist his tenants. in improving their ?? Observer. ti The Art Galleries on the Mound.-We understand that C the ground is to be staked off to-day, in connection withb the excavations necessary for the foundation of the Fine w Arts' building proposed to be erected ...

... AIR. HUDSON AND THE RAILWAYS, &c. Mr. Hudson, believing, as he says, that the time has arrivedl wheni he should attempt to Chear hihself from the tl charges brought against him by the coennaittee of the York, tI Newcastle, and Berwvick Rnilway Company, has pulbleshed fi a long letter in the Times of Tuesday, frolml w hieh wle extract d the coaeludhig portion, tlea other portions are ...

... L O N DO N, JANUARY 23. We are informed that her Mlajesty will not open the t next session of Parliament in person. We have reason to believe that her Mlajesty's absence on that occasion' ' will he owing to the neiar approach of ax? event which ll will probably add another member to the Royal Family.- Times. NVatinalEdvcation.-We are auithorized to state that a Id public meeting will he held ...

... ASYLUM FOR TIHE BLIND. The annual general mecting of the qualified contributors and sub- i scribers to the Glasgow Asylum for the Blind was held in the Re- T ligious Institution ioomis, on Monday, for the election ofu directors t for the onseiliig year, when the report of the directors for the past o year was submitted to the meeting. t- The Lord Provost, on the motion of Wr1LMix BcODIE, Esq., ...

... LAW REPORT-SECOND DIVISION, JAh'. 22. ntEc. NOTE-DICOSON V. PATERSON. (From the North British Mail.) 1 This tor.naroeut of a sale of 125 ton of guano, saltby Lick-- son to Paterson, at £7, 5s. a ton. It was rejected by the buyer as spurious and of inferior quality, and having subsequently been sold to another person, an action was brought by the seller (Dickson), for the difference between the ...

... he HERALD OFFICE, Fi1-d(yJ .Mor lIYg. VY BY pELEOTRIC:TETLEGRAPH. in- - - -1noxv TU DY, JAIUXY 4 LONox TaHUnODA, JNuARY 24. rts The German mails have not arrived to-day, the GORHUR V. THE 335150OP OF EXETER. no The Standardsaystheannouncement in the Herald, though a ted- fact, we believe, uay be considered premature. The judgment has on- not yet been formally given, nor has any day been ...

... I . . . . - . .. I 0 . - 1I Te Rev. Dr.-- Chkampnzys.-We deeply regret to an-- nounce the premature death of this estimable and accom- plishsed geitleman, who, for two vears and a half,ipresided over thea Collegiate School in this' city. *His grave and. courteous manners had endeared:' him to a large circle of friends here, while his high character ais a clergyman secured for him the regard ...

... ,, ?? .-b. ?? ln.- (From the Times.) 'Southampton, Jan. 20. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Great Western, Captain H. J. -Wolfe, arrived here this morning at ten o'clock, bringing the usual British and foreign West Indian ani Mexican mails, in charge of' Lieutenant Kidde R.N., Admiralty Agent. Her -latest dates are- as ?? Crur, December 17; Ha- vana, December 28; St.Jago de Cuba, ...

... Liverpool, Tuesday Morning. By the Royal mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Neil Shannon, we have advkes from ?? York to the 8th, Boston to the 9th, and Halifax to the 11th inst. respectively. Off the banks the Cambria saw a large steamer, supposed to be the Canada, hence for New York. The steam-ship Alabama was at New Orleans with specie from California to the amount of 260,000 dollars. ...

... THE ROMAN REMALINS IN MOULSHAM. (From the Chhlisford Chzronile.) The recent severe weather has suspended the antiquarian opera- tions in the above-named locality, and wvhich had just received a fresh impetus by the discovery ot' a number of Roman coins, with some further interesting traces of the villa that no doubt at some remote period adorned this spot. We before stated that in the course ...