... BURDENS ON LAND. SECTION- XXIX. (Cent jaund ?? 23.) Tho Association now proceeds to notice some of the ob- jections to a land tax, or, ats Mr. 11'Callech calls it, aI tax uonlf rout, They arc willing, to adopt his ?? rent. It accords with that ailroady laid down by th'emn. Helays,- IlThle 51111 which tile Occupier of an improved farm pays to tho landlord is uniformlyl derived froml two ...

... 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. ? ...

... ,.1/W TER0-COLO UR PA INTERS. | ~_f I~v IfI V T a ~ exhibitio of the Old Society of ti j ater Colours opens to-day. On Satur- l .Is thle 1al private view. 1L 2rCt strength of the Society is in landscape, it6i7 cotilparatively few exceptions, the draw- t llibited (to tile number of 380) are in thatP ; 11 i -,f pictoria art. tl l- s remarkablle picture is one by Mr. J. F. e, sltiled ...

... THE PIILANTIAllOl'iC PA RM SCOOL. Twelve months have now vlapsed since thle opening of the Fares Seicool established by the philanthropic Society at Red-hill ; and an interesting report of the proceeding during that period has just been made, The establishiment Wrie opened on thc 13th April, 2819; and since that date sixty- five boys have been admitted, and forty-six placed out. Of the sixty ...

... [MOST INTERESTING SCENE AT TIJE SLArE ' .QUARRIES. re To -tie Edior of liae North Wales Chronicls, se ry Su,,-If you did notfsee, and haye not heaird'of the of extrabrdinary scene 'which took place at St. Ann's, in the Penrhyn Slate'Quarrips, on Friday last, I will tell you allaboutit. -- y OONE WHO DID SEE AND HEARl IT. or April 27. of L(e have heard of the scene, and regret we were not as ...

... GEN'8AL SEMEARY. a Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope report :lion'.hunting achievementsaby Brevet Mnjor Blen-l e kinsoppp and Captain Bates, of the 45th Regiment, ts' at a frontier station. Five lions and a leopard, all a. full grown beasts, were killed in two, mornings' shootings. .y A splendid new sepamer, 2,2o feet long, and'. with is two engines of 7 feet. strcre. is about to be con- a. ...

... IMPERIAL PAEtLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS oXrONDAY, APiL'i 2'2 LoTd BLANTYI1'E toolt the oaths ntnd his seat as one of the representative peers uif Seoitl'lld. ol tire motion of the M51arquis of REEl)ESD)ALE, the Smoke Prohibitiomi Bill passed through corn- mittee 'lTre Duke of RICITIMIOND, moved for the np- pointment of a select commiteffe t6 inquire into the operation of asr act to prohibit tihe ...

... TIE NEW STEANI-SHIP ASIA. ur Palenr of F',idni- - lo UM -iour paPes' of' Friday we gav a br- ntc out, of this splendid vessel, whichl is to i briaded tothce Ian obl fleet of steamecrs carrying thc mnails between- lice t Is er and Haia Under thle direction of thle the BitishansI orth Amnericant Stcalln-paclket, Compa~n. ?? ,a new arive here, and from anl inspection of he, yeterdlay, wve are ...

... 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 ...

... -- - ?? :~ t:l THE;E CHRONICLE. es- DAN,0R. TUESDAY, APRIL 80, 1850, c an I ted: We are satisfed that our readors will agree Xnwith us, that of all Her Majesty's subjects, J es.. there are nohe'morc anxious ibr the extension t uI-' of education than the inhabitants of this an- s m- 'dent Pfiicipality. Intelligence is not only a g th polish to virtue, but it also rendeTS men and t led' women ...