... TnE nsual monthly meeticg of this Board was held on Satur- oat e' day-Baillie Williamson presiding. ve ir PRESENT:-Baillie Lediregham; Messrs Urquhart, Mac- ~d ::- Laren, Rose, Henderson. Gildawie, Ross, Leslie, Berry, ih3 o, Buyers, Gray, Campbell, and Middleton. . S, -BREDUCTION OF DEBT. Z It was.reported that the Board's share of the Innes Street bo feu-duties, amounting to £1200, had been ...

... MISCILLAEOCUS. - - ~~~~~~~~Iware A,, EYE TO THEr MAINy CHANOE.-A young stockbroker bar- ShOir iug married a fat old woman with £000,000, says, it wasn't his wasf wifs's face that attracted him So much as thle fignre.-Puncha'. the f6 A PARADox.-A8 ugly as It witch is a proverbial savinig, yet Satuin -the Lancashire witchos are the firnest women in England, whilst town it is not thle fact that ...

... WEEKLY COMPENDIlJU. Um:]-f-1. r-hnle~ Lot fl.- BAS a.. -i wh IO Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Great Evhibition of 185-1 au of have liberally granted to the Society of Arts two hundred and *ffect fifty copies of the jarors' reparts, for distribution amnong the in- uliar stitatious in union wvith it, hich Miss Drunsesond, the eldest daughter of the London bankerc m all has just expired at ...

... ST- MA; HA1R'S LOfDulo.CE 54, , .27tb Den- 1kw9 27tb Doe., 1852: Se. WILLIAM RASOAOE, ArchitectW ja- 5 James RettWe, Jewvelher, Past z1astan.1 Willinnm'Jenos, M.D., London, precUy ,fse.t Robert Beveridge, M.D, Suirgeonl, Senior Warden., ti David Robertson, Royal Iotel ,'Jiinr Warden. fi William Dutbie, Advocate, Tr'easiurcr and CnL.k 0 William Gordon, Sharebroker, Secretary p Charles Gordon, ...

... EXECUTION OF GEOP.GE CHRISTIE. 05 Os the morning of Thrursdlay lest, thig wretcir~d individural explirteri, onl the scaffold in front. of the Town-Hoeso here, the it horrid crime of the murders of Mrs Rosas and her gr-aridhijld, Inear IKittybrewster, onl the 4tb October lest. iSince receivingiris sentence be-fore thle High Court of itisti- ciery, onl tile 23d ult,, Christie lied conducted ...

... a Sib c-T - l:-OWEflDAY, Jahuary 19,1853. - -- - ~~~~~~~~who l - we mnight judge by appearances, we would he inclinedTh to set down business as the great object and purpose of that an Englishmnan's life, and pleasure as the chief end of the s' that of a F renchman. We presume, were both to be tajus minutely examined into, that we would find the differ- it is once more apparent than real; but ...

... HARBOUR COMIMISSIONERS. 1l~tiuf of tie I-T liosa Bard was ho~ld On 1Moiaday-tbe Tit 1'losoT explained to the meieting that they hall been a1 bvetel lierit that inconlven ient hour (12 o'clock), as the do- y1 t1l tl a~iit would be laid before them had been received only it c:,letiray~ nl'Igh, and because-it was desirable the Board should I 154eiry 1e1cle acqiiainted wvithi their contents,. bc ...

... I : AUGMENTATION OPi i k8My. VI, 1L55 TM5IMY. dret hpbicbin (From' thre Spectaetoy. offia ublie einsto be s-ather mystified at thle conhinuedl ofiilrseere respectinrg tho increase of the army. There is no Ii las obvious; at least no sufficient, reason for that reserve; and, there. I int fore,= th ulie suppdscs that there must be somne hidden reasen. %i riclo. An addto to our rirans cf defence ...

... ,1'|D T OF MAJoRGENERAL BURRELL. - This gallant and le. distingllished offleer, whose demise wag announded on Friday, entered the service as Ensign, Feb. 4, 1797; Lieutenant, May 3, 7 1797; Captain, Mareh 25, 1805; Major, April 30, 1807; Liente- DS, nant-Colonel, June 4, 1813; Colonel, July 30, 1830; Major-Ge. - neraal, Nov. 23,1841. He served at the capture of Guadalonpe, by 1810, and the ...

... VU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FV t . As there is a diversity of opinion as to the propriety of f ploughing lea, with a deep furrow, for a crop of oats, the foU-i A lowing result of an experiment on the home farm at Tlhirlestane' I Castle, betvixt equal quantities of land ploughed with the E Marquess of Tweeddale's three horse plough, and the common it two horse plough, may be interesting as well ...

... Imptrial I4 aUament. HOUSE OF'loEDg.Wifesday, Dec. 27. . cept The following Is a more extended rep ort of the r4marks of the, Alfre, Prime Minister on his future policythatn was gi~en In our last-77 Chief The Naes- QI' Aberdeeni-I need. not detdninour -Lordships On - e the'natore of.~ our relations with foreign powers. rThe truth is, . Mi that for the last thirty years the principle of the ...

... DICKENS, THACEERAY, CARLYLE, CROLY. of tire (Thero ir- Archibaeld Alhicoe's MTioto'p of Europe.) proof e The strong turn which romanice aurl novel writing, in the first the pre: L-half Of the nineteenth century, took to the delineation, of bilot TI! life, with its charmis, its, vices, and its follies, naturally led to a inon'tlo 'e reaction, and a school arose, the leaders of which, ...