... WEEKLY COMPENDItM. Aonog the II ish antiquities in tho Dublin Exhibition is a MS. of the'Psalms, written about the year 650, and ascribed to. Qblumba, the Christian founder of Iona. -Sir Edward Bu'wer-Lytton has mode a good bargoin with Mr R6utledge, a young and enterprising publisher. He has sold the copkrightof all his works for a period of ten years, the terms being £2000 a-yeaor FrRST ...

... BY JOHN ROSE, ESQ,, l.A., A.D., e.B.S., ASSISTANT U SURGEON, U.N. U (Front '-The Naturalist, for JUIJ.) v TIE Flora of Aberdeen is much richer, and more varied than t( one would suppose,judging from the bare and barren appearanee ci of the surroending district. Many botanists, as Dr Dickis remarks, have supposed that a close relation exists between ri the plants of a country and 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, ...

... vas li up with great glee. G A R 1) R N I N G. P LOANT DEPrIRTMENT.-As frosty weather may unw, at any *m .tine, bc expected, a good supply of dry litter, fIrn, or other N materials should be in readiness, for extra covering, when re- K quired. The principal worlk in this departmeit will consist in G keepin thie houses and their initiates sceopullously clean. Mo- bt I dcrat firesand ventilation ...

... 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 ...

... ELEC.TION OF MEMBERS.T 11aleting 61'per~sonlsashmstdforthleKupportoithe B xreluislas or City Parish, was held in the Court. W 50 'h~r ef the iwelojlBoard of the parish. About sixty of l~o~lue~lrer prsen liven thne oneetinag was.-constituted, hut * fewrsicreased to about eighty. Ce 0 tileo~to~ o Mr osar, stabler, the Lord Provost was The eovarhavng ckawiogedthe honiour done him in rqleltopreid, ...

... y1lgfCLLITTV1M ITS PAST AND ITS FUTUREn 0 PobITICALLY CONSIDERED. ti ~yfartlier evidence were necessary-in addition to s ltt hih we have, already adduced-in order to showi tiat thle tendency to an increase in the money value of p preiecewhic ha laely manifested itself is to be attri- il bete tethe ffet poduced on the value of money, re- n1 atietV t comodites, by the large supplies of gold Si ...

... THE rNITRATE OF SODA. ' t ?I'TH publication of a paper on nitrate of soda, by Mr a to Pusey, in the last number of the Journal of the Royaldo cIa Agricultural Society Of England, has been the means of R~. directing considerable attention to its importance as a 1 1'manure. Its application, however, as a top-dressing, 0 ,1m both to grain and grass crops, is by no means new. We 5 he had occasion, ...

... Intperial Varltantritt. ffOUSE OF LORDS-T-edav~, April 12. TCqc'lera Reserves (Canada) Bill was brought up from tble Tine - offdnf~land road a first time.A Rorl~ rOfnCoemons, whentored into the subject at some lengtht 010ci nln teVaccination Extension Bill should be corn- V oinl~l.55~1 f 8)e~flob~r -ses ofopinon tat the demand fort Oeeal,15f LlennbeC51595 suggested tha te bill should be ti ...

... de '' BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAP. vwaith 1 P PARIS, Monday.-The Legislative Chambers were opened to-day by the Emperor. In his speech, he said esli his Government had decided to diminish the national even expenses, to reduce the army, and apply to useful pur- nl ci le poses the resources of the eduntry-to keep up a good un. (Hea n. derstanding with Foreign Powers, and prove to the most IF? ie ...

... m- 'The Bill of the British Electric Teldgrapll Company is report- :cu1 -ek to have pomplied with the stitndinv orders. ss 'RAILWVAY DIVIDErNDS.-The forthcoming dividend oftbe Ca- ret a ledonian Railway Company will probably be at the rate of 24 daO am Tper ceot. per annum. The Scottish Central will pay at the rats fol eat 'cif 4 per cent. carrying over about £4000., and give in addition a in ...

... ies TiE newspapers are more warlike than they were. The Government organs have been doing their best, for the Ats past few days, to explain certain dubious circumstances l nt respecting the proposal that emanated from the Repre- G al sentatives at Vienna. This proposal, which the Czar a ps accepted and the Sultan rejected, is now found to contain 0 n- certain concessions that were never ...