... B EVERBAGES. (From Schlelder's Pltnt-Biographyp) These are almost all :derived from the vegetable kingdom Th. European cultivates the vine wherever the climatal condition do * not render it impossible Cyder, beer; and ardent spiritsare tisdel . distributed. A peculiar problem, indeed, is presented to the psychologist in the remasrkable circumstance, that wheresoever the r human race is found ...

... IRELAND AND XIRSH FrAMING. I MessP.Baekvood of Edinburgh have just published a work on this subject, from the pen of Mr. James Caird, farmer, -Baldoon, who is well known to agriculturists as the author-of the work entitled, High Farming under Liberal. Covenants.'? The present volume is entitled, The Plantation. Scheme; or the West of Ireland as a Field for Investment. Mr. Caird had ...

... i (From the Fredericton Head Quarters, Jan. 2.) * j Professor Jol71nss~to.-This distinguished and scientific agricul- turist has just terminated his labhurs in this Province, and his re- port on its agricultural character and capabilities will, we under- . stand, be given to the Legislature and to the public at an early day. . e cannot but hope that much good will grow out of the Pro- ...

... IM[PROVED SYSTEM OF RELIEF IN TI-HE HIGH- LANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. I~ ~ ?? i (From the Globe.) e . In the extreme north-west of Scotland, as our readers r. are aware, is a district in many respects analo-ous in i; , condition to the more distressed parts of Ireland. It mav f be said to comprise, especially, the counties of Ross and r Sutherland, and the acljacent islands of Skye and ...

... ,in. * U.V iBUULZLAJ& S . wad (Continuedfrom the Gigow Herald of 21st January.) THE SALtIEDO tONE, NEAR PUNO. al, About the middle of the I7th century, that celebrated mine was de- acquired by the person whose name it still bears, and it continues ith to be an object of attraction to speculators who, long for its supposed it, now hidden treasures. the It was revealed to Salcedo by an Indian ...

... The official report to the Lords of the Admiralty of the proceed- ings of her Majesty's ships Herald and Plover, under the command of Captain Kellett, has been published It is written by Captain Kellett, dated the 1 Herald, November 22,1849, and was received at the Admiralty on 226 January. The IHerald and Plover, it will vbe recollected, proceeded by Bering Straits. We extract the most ...

... ror mthe Times.) Southampton, Friday, Jan. 25. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam. Navigation Company's ship Montrose, Captain John Bowen, arrived here at 3 o'clock i-jr.! to- day, with the usual Spanish and Portuguese mails, in charge of Lieutenant Inelis, R. N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are, Gibraltar, Jan. 17; Cadiz, Jan. 18; Lisbon, Jan. :20; Oporto, Jan. 21; and Vigo, Jan. 22. She brings ...

... (From the Times.) The last Chinese mail left us in some uncertainty respecting the success of the expedition, consisting of the Fury, Colonibine, and Phlegethon, ?? against the notorious pirate-chief Shaping- tsai ; but all anxiety on this score has been relieved by the de- spatehes just published. From the private correspondence and other papers which have reached us, wve extract the ...

... tIMO.NDAY MORNTIN7G, JANUARY 28. exaggeration to say that their entire publication by an 2S 2arried ordinary orc~igan of public opinion is impossible. Their name c is legion,-and yet, in England and Ireland-at York or tt Lincoha, or Dublini-their outcry is one and the same. The fi attired stackyards arc groanoing under the superabundance of last h .undiav, Lpublic year's crop, but the ...

... 1L ATE STN: YEW-S. I . I I LONDON, Saturday Evening. Cabbnet ?? Day.-The Ministers assembled in Cabinet Council. this afternoon at two. o'clock, at the Foreign Offie, DoWning Street, There were present- The noble Premier (Lord John Russell), the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Carlisle, Lord Campbell. the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the ...

... E N GL AND. The Royal Theatricals.-In consequence of the death of Mrs. Bartley, whose decease we announced a few days since, the Queen has graciously excused Mr. Bartley from appearing in the forthcoming dranmatic performances at Windsor Castle. Her .AIajesty had previously commanded the representation of Henry IV., with the view of wit- nessing Mr. Bartley's representation of Sir John ...

... ; On Friday a special general meeting of this Board was held in the Parish Church, at 12 o'clock, for the purpose of considering a letter fron the Board of Supervision, in regard to the appointnent of ean -Inspector for'th 'anneoiatiion district of the parish, as successor to lIP. M}fagteaei.~r$ The: Rev. Dr.'-Leishman, ha of the Board ?? t he char.- - . ' ?? b -4-Th~e'shderont of the fmeeting ...