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... BbIT!SE. AND 1SH WrSHEIB. : (Fro the Compnon to the Almansofor 1850. The fisheries of an insular country like, Great BritainI must Necessarily be of. considerable imnortance. 'The | extent of land available for agriculture is definite ; it may be measured almost to a single square mile; whether re- clained or unreclaimed; but the fisheries are practically unlimited, or at least the only limit ...

... - The New Year was obs'erved in dbrgh on Tuesday E ~en with more boisterous hilarity than: has been the-case for a ,at some years past. During the night, we learn that large r ate numbers enga'ged in the practice of first-footing; but, al- ( era though noisy enough in their revels, there were few, com&- Bat paratively speaking, who indulged to such 'excess, or. eir were so .uproarious as to ...

... A M E R r C A. (From the Times.) Liverpool, Sunday Evening. The North American mail steam-ship Europa has arrived with advices from Boston to the 19th inst. The Hermann arrived at New York on the 15th, from Southampton, and the Hibernia on the 17th, from Liverpool. The repeated failures to elect a Speaker continued to prevent the organization of the House of Representatives; consequently no ...

... , lion- THE PARQOCHIAL BOARtO ELECTIONS. on Monday, the discussion in regard to the election of members aIF the Parochial Board, was ralumed before Mr. Sheriff Bell. erf, Mr. Foaxas, Town Clerk, appeared for the magistrates, on be- a halt of the four gentlemen appointed by them, and requested that d nthe objections to their election be first taken and disposed of. He agow intended to'demur to ...

... ?? ru.1111A) Mb1«1ve-w-.tl i: (From the Times.) me a- If, as we have recently endeavoured to show, the year ro, 0 swhich has just tcrminated its eventful course has wit- cla i- nessed the; deliverance of Europe by military power from ?? . the perils which thrueatened all order and society, it is not wi d the less true that the means which have serve'd to resist tul , this evil are insufficient ...

... I Mom t1ie.forninz Chronicle.) (From thei Morning Chronicle.) The Excise duty on soap appears to us to fulfil, in al- most every essential respect, the definition of a bad tax. Previously to 1833, it was also extravagantly high in amount, being equivalent to ?? cent.advalorema. In consequence of a large reduction of duty, both on the article itself and on. some of the materials which enter ...

... FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4. 1 I of commentary, ushered in a New-Year. All that can be the said of the by-past season is fully comprehended in the Ian extracts -we give from various journals, in our first 1d. page. We can only direct attention to these, as furnish- lug valuable statistics, the accuracy of which, however, is hers vouched only by the authorities quoted. We observe, fa with much ...

... THE EIEW YEAR-ITS HOROSCOPE. * it : : (From the Spectator.) :not xe Born of Revolutiei and Reaction, the New Year cannot ?? > -but-have.a strange, Sbdbev-entftba-isto-r-y$: bome porti6r rsiv( unwritten1 is awaited with anxious expectancy by the qui le princes and peoples of Europe, lying on their arms! how cal ,d much larger a portion unawaited will come without fore- is e c thought or warning ...

... The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Tuesday, the 8th of January, at Windsor Castle. Summonses were issued on Wednesday to the Ministers and Officers of i State.-Times. Windsor, December 80.-Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court and the domestic household, attended Divine ser- vice in the private chapel. Windsor, JanuarJ 1.-Her Majesty's new ...

... a GLASGOW SECTION. s1in' a ?? tetl On Monday ,afternoon, a meeting of the Glasgow Sectoe ftetl H ihland Desftiution Rlelief Board wvas held hit the Merchants' tiol ?? Amongst the gentlemen present we observed the 1Rev. the Prhcipal Metefinrlan, Rev. Drs. Hill; M'Lsd aky Buichanan, a and Struthters, Dr. Rainy, W~illiam. Brown, Esq., Alex. Hastic, 98 ?? .PJohin Hneyman, REsq., John Blackis, eon. ...

... ,- .1 -1 I Wor> (Fraon the Times.) tent, Wccdeday.-The.President of the Republic received on Tues- the day, on the oceasion of the new year, the Marshrals of, France, tele the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, the deputations of the had Cour des Comptes and the different Law Courts, the Councils of able the University and the Institute, the Prefects of the Seine and MIr Police, the ...