... i :~ i hi :~ I . THE WHgATITTM-THE nHtuRTL2ANE5 OT SATURDAY. . o..: LL1s ?? _I . .. . . . _ hI Jur011t0l§Jast week of Alarch, the weather was of a more . ttban ordinarily stormy nature, with ftostand'snov; ...

... T aktbolia'n 1Uctcarp. EDINBURGH. NOPNDAY, APRIL 210. A conference has been held in London under the ans- pices of the National Parliamentary and Financial l'e- form Association, which extended over two days, and was aattended by upwards of 200 delegates fromn various parts fof the kingdom. Messrs Hume, Cobden, Bright, Fox, 'I1'Gregor, Colonel Thompson, Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir ...

... On Friday the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders cf the Scottish Central Railwav was held in the General Station. Perth, at one o'clock ?? Hon. J. C. Dundas oc- copied the chair. zr Kerr. the secretary, read the repert by the directors, which stated that, according to the resolution agreed to at the special general meeting of the shareholders on the 22d of Ja- muarv last, the chairman and ...

... PAQr(r .OATS. GENERAL TE.PT OFFICE, Alir: 25. De-b- -- ?? Miitl .La- Packets Niext Packet . 'i(UTU ?? ; le- npat -d_ Sailed. De.. S j OI. iroa: Ltnidon. De (1 DaV lid.. pri17. Ap r. lS t ?? ?? . .1 L Gil ralta CQlit 1 t 1 eemc lotiotac? 2. 2 I, Ditto, 8 ?? . pt, t..y-i e:cil lMUl. , .1! l). 3ayS I i\ *r k w 'Y CIci'.ui i- u . N~sau. v & Bd a.unlu, I 24 and .17t1h Dee. Ditvo. 1 i Fre,'i tX.o. ? ...

... MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 8., The Reveune returns, for the yeet and q t iter etlding on the 5th instant) exhibit- s ?? a result as could ,hroasonably have been anticipated, although we cannot say , it is more favourable than the. Ministerial journals, for 1 some time past, would have-led its to expect. 'There is e. undoubtedly an increase both on the year and quarter-. id on the former of £185,816 ...

... It srty. APkt II. (For Tutesday'sprO-dtGSteef-rt4WCe.) :; The Srsxastttook the chair at twelve o'cloek. Admiral GORDON presented a petition against any alteration > of the existing systm of education in Scotland. Lort El. VALNE presented a petition from Durham in favour of :secular educatior. Mgr. 31.GIBSON presentedseveral petitionsfrom Manchester in fwvour of s6cular education. Mr Sir. VE N ...

... IIOCOSSING IN A RATLWAY CARRIAGE BY LOZENCGES. * - LUvtAsLO~. ASOTEEts ATTEMPT IN tMANCHESTER. On Saturday morning, the 16th instant, a man residing at Hands- worth was travelling by railway from Edinburgh to Birmingham, and when between Carlisle and Preston, two men in the same car- riage offered himself and a fourth passenger a lozenge each. The fourth man ate his lozenge and slept all the ...

... A deputation, to represent tie injury resulting to the planters of Ccvlon and other colonies from the adultera- tion of coffee wvith chicory and other substances, had an interview with Earl Grev vesterdav, at the Colonial Office. The deputation consisted of Mir. Thomas Baring, MI.P., 3Major Blackall, M.P., Mr. Archibald Hastie, 31.P., Mr. Alexander Matheson, M.P., lion. J. Portescue, 2.P., M.r ...

... floral ?? *ntexti-gretsm ?? I , AMMEME*Z, April 24, 1650. Birth.. At the School-house; Fordyce, Mrs STEPHEN, of a daughter. At No. 2, LansdoWn Terrace, Cheltenham, on the 17th inst., the wife of H. SHOiTO DOUGLAS, Esq., late Captain 42d Royal Highlanders, of a daughter. Marriage.. At Aberdeen, on the 11th current, by the Rev. Dr Mqntosh, FREDEXICK GLASHAN, Tailor, Arneyburn, to MARGARET, ...

... STATE OF TRE FUNDS-S.TURDAT. BRITISH. FOREIGN, Bank Stock .. . 203 Brazilian Five per Cent.. 87 3 per Cent. IRed. ?? 94i Danish Three per Cent- 68 3 pei Cent. Con. Ann ?? 95 Mexican ?? _ 9 3 per Censt. l2 . . -. Peruviar. For_. _ 69 New 3~ per Cent ?? 971 Portuwuese 5 per Cent.. F5} Newv 5 per Cent.Anns. ?? - Converted ?? - Long Annuities to expire Portuguese 4 per Cent.- 3S 3' yes. I1th Oct. ...

... IRE LAND. EXsECrTIoxs.-Tuesday being the day named fur the exe- cution of John Eyan, who wvas found guilty at the las7 Tulla- more Assizes of the murder of Serjeant Grant, a large con- course assemnbled in front of thejail to witness the awful spec- tacle. At five minutes past tvelve the culprit tripped up tine ladder with a light step, accompanied by the Rev. Messrs Callery and Flood, Roman ...

... WHITEHALL-April 4. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Hodgson, of Selby, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Master Extraor- dinary in tbe Ihigh Court of Chancery, NATIONAL DEBT OMPCE -April 4. The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury having cert'fied to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na- tional Debt, in pursoanee of the Act 10th Geo. IV., c. 27, sec. 1, that the ...