... I--- 7 n A- -% .11.1- c- Old and Kew 2oneldand-On Monuday last, the district med, nd given by the Caledonian Curling Club, was keenly contested iw- betwixt theparishesof Old and New lonldand,at Lochend, in Old 3y, Monkeand parish. The day being remarkably propitious, ain the He ice citremely keen, the combatants entered with much spirit into In- the game. After a vigorous contest, XNewy ...

... THE PRESIDEn'S MZESSAG. d Liverpool, JTan. 9 The British and North Amncrican royal mail steam ship t Hibernin, Captain Stone, arrived in the Mersey at one o'clock t- this morning, with ne-coints fromn New York of the 26th ult. 2 inci vet and upwards ot fotv passengers. She left Haifax a on the 29th ult. The P'acific mail steamer Panama. Captain Bailey, arrived e at P1arnamn, with accounts From ...

... .f?rl if - I 'k E a I Ic i 1, o -3 ?? i- t-:r Z& I - I ?,4 , ?. ?? C IC r 11 rp - EDINBURGH. iONDAY. JA NUARY 14, 1850. 'Ihe riotous proceedings at StafiTord, on Thursday last, Oia connlection with the IProtectionist meetin]g in that town at which Lord TiLlbot, Lord Newport, Luord Lewishanm, Mr Adderley, adP., nod others toick a part, can only be jcondemnued us a rude and violent aggression ...

... - ?? -, ?? - w . I- , 1? - 11, - ? , - . I . I., , Z. , 7 .? . ?- :, , i- ? , e itiswodru how little :the s.vor'ld- ever knows :of its agretreanis great movemehts, until'time andtsiiccas, fihave made them historical. Hete ate Sir Joshua Walmsley and Mr. Georcge Thompson, and the rest of the patriots of the National Reform Association, who have positively been making a revolution in ...

... - i.Afll.MnS IS 1O lflufl U)U 4 vJ X -R. A COLD WATER SKETCI. (From the Flag of the Union.) A knot of idlers stood upon the end of a pier which ran out into the Hudson River, in one of the small towns near Albany, a few days ago, amusing themselves with hurling stones into the broad stream, each veinir with his neighbour in the endeavour to pitch a missile at the farthest distance from the ...

... THE -LATE ENSIGN DANIEL AUGUSTUS SANDFORD. (From the Courant.) It was with feelings of no common regret that we heard of the premature death.of Daniel Augustus Sandford, Ensign in the 2d Bengal European Infantry, son of the Rev. John Sandford, Vicar of Dunchurch, and grandson of the late Bishop Sandford. He was appointed to the Regiment in 1848, when but yet on the verge of manhood, having ...

... -1t of M.A.m I .Feem the Autoblography of Madame Sbhopenbaner.) The impress of its ancient prospfrity1 and the love of a Su tiedkindof rnaent which &hroprigenerated, is so e stanped onmyf native ,characteristics are e ihl l mately connected with its very being,, -and have so grown wi.th its 5 growth, that it would be impossible to modernise it, without en. r irely destroying the present city, ...

... His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday at the first meeting of the Royal Commission for the Pro- motion of the Exhibition of the Works.of Industry of all Nations, to be held in the year 1851. The meeting took place in the Newv Palace of Westminster, where his Royal- Highness arrived at 20 minutes past ll o'clock, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles B. Phipps,. Colonel the Hon. ...

... DE BEGG ON THE ELEVATION OF THE WOUKI\ING CLASSES. tflt The Rev. Dr Begg delivered a lecture on ttlis subject, ont of Toorsday evening, in the Rev. Dr French's ClIret, Sjuth College Street. The church was nearly filled, by an audience, Mt. comprised, for the mnost part, of the working_ clisec. 3ir J. F. or- Macfarlan, druggist, was calld to the chair. m- |Dr Begg stated, at the outset, that he ...

... L AT T N;-:Wt S6. ?? ?? I.. : . - . .. . I. . . . : ,M.oiDD:, :a S :TAT OF THE CONTIfNtNT - (Fromn the Standard.) FRaxxCE-Pnris, Friday.+-fore specie continues to flow into the coffers of the Bank. The amount is more by nearly six millions thar, it was last week. The increase in the circulation of notes very nearlyvcorresponds. The discounted bills account shows that the Brle ftt t' a, tt1i ...

... VISIT OF sri: H. I. F. DAVIE TO JEDBUR ZGU. On Wedinesady evening Sir Ii. ad. Fcrguson Dainei the honourahie member for the Hdlied hogn Burghis, too~t the clec- ii tars of Jedhurgit in die Spread Ly_,le Inn Assc~nblcv R1oom, Ifor the purposei ofrgivtog an. account of his erairwards jp1, 'ince hiscitation in 1 847. Shortly after seven o'eluc k theh ritloure-- ble baroniet, accompanied by a ...

... YORXK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY. (From the Timca.) The report of the meeting of the York, Neweastle, and Berwick Railway, to arrange respecting the purchase of the Great Nortiern line, and the compromise with Mr. Hudson, was read on Wednesday with mutch interest. The purchase of the Great Northern was agreed to on terms which will spread the paw-ioeuts over a period of six years, and the ...