... VAGRANCI. . .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . a VAGEANcy seems to have its periodical rise and fall. At one n time, it is soepent up by the right administration or the rigour b of the law, that it is hardly perceptible. At another time, it t! pours itself like a stream-tide over the country, carrying terror h and dismay among the inhabitants. Prior to the establishment a of the Rural Police, it was said that ...

... fe BRITISE MILITARY DISCPLpINE.-The second battalion of J the 1st Royals, on their voyage from Cork to Corfu, had a nar- t row escape from shipwreck. During the hurricane the decks of the ship were crowded with the soldiers preparing :to jump on the rocks, or save themselves as best they could,. when the Colouel asked Captain Downes if anything could be daone (allu d- . ing t'ohis men) to save ...

... Il ,1(Froe a lAuoo Correspondent.) s-I A rumour-was prevalent in LondonMonday Evening. A rumour was prevalent in London, on Monday, that the :essians had entered the provinces of Xloldmyi, 4 Wanlac^la. r-f)rng the day' it w7 PiOt bellevgd, aud exercised opiy a small t infJuenJt n tratetctione. Towards evening it acquired more g credit,hut per!spaweighed less in public estimation, than a a ...

... ARTIFICIAL IRRIGATION. .ePoViou remarks on this subject we deemed it to introduce it with some degree of caution; t erth3e prepos5 ~ to irrigate our ordinary cultivated c zrj t, arifiialmeas was perhaps in danger of being e eg ,OlcI by -Some of our readers as a th chime to deserVe serious attention. Mr Mechi's late visit tothe north will have been the means of familiarising -te cxt to the ...

... e TIns Annual Showof Live Stock and Dairy Produce of the tS trathbogie Farmer-Club came off at Huntly on Tuesday the .2 .23d instant, when premiums were also'given by the Hig;11and and Agricultural Society of Scotland forShort-horned bulls and I Aberdeenshire polled queys. 'The Duchess of Gordon having .kindly granted to the Club the -use of a portion of the large j ark adjacent to the ...

... ENG LAN~D. The ex-Royal family of France, now sojourning at ClaremontI hare made arrangements for leavini England forthwith, ona visit to Queen Donna Maria, and the King Consort (Ferdinand,~ of Saxe-Coburgr), at Lisbon. The illustrious exiles, including the ex-Queen Marie Anielie, the Prince and Princess de Joiuville, the Duchess of Orleans, the Count de Paris, and a numerous suite, will ...

... S1. ;COTLAND, Ih -'COTTISH INDUSTRCAL EX5IITEITION.-Several new Iplan'have. been - sugstedl -for the proposed- Exhibition of iScottish Industriail Art.! One is to raiee a structure of glass ,and iron in the Experimental Gardens A beautiful design has- tbeen drawn by Mr Rhinid, the archisitect, and has met with. theappova ofa-number of influential gentlemen ; and a I meeing as hed Ih other day, ...

... e SCOTLAN DaO 1t ! - ! - COURT OF SRESecoX.-Ort Fridaye mr Heciules 3. Roberston, ye tpresented to the Court the royal.commisiisior.,appointing bins to, ab the vacancy Caused on the, benchi byltbe-retiremtent, three- wek i ago, of Lord.Fullrtorta, who has so briefly outlived, the.i trm- a nation of his judicial labours. MT 'Robertson then,::as Lord, nr~ Probationer, preceeded with his ...

... L Thum~~'kerday, July 28. - A Special Meeting of the Town Council was held this day- the Lord Provost presiding. PRESENT :-Baillies Henderson, Sim, Ross, and Leding- haml the Dean of Guild;. Treasurer Elcesly; Dr in Christie ; Messrs Smith, Jamieson, Gordon, Anderson, 1l Berry, LeslietMacallan, aod Gibb. gi UrCTORS5HOP OF GRAMMAR SCHOOL.i The PRovosT stated that this meeting had been called ...

... MIS C EL LANEO US. A DETERMtlNFI JURoY.-At the Monagban Assizes, the jury th in the case of the murder of Mr Bateson have been discharged W( uuable to agree to a verdict, after forty-one hours' confinement, K during which they were allowed nothing but water. LEGAL SETTLEMIENT-An elderly female, on being examined before the magistrates of Bungay as to her place of legal settle- s ment, was ...

... It THE first meeting of this Board, since the Inte election, was it, held in the Board-room, Nelson Street, yesterday. - PRrsENT:-BailliO Williamson ; Messrs Middleton, Hen- derson, Gray, Calder, Sutherland, Crombie, Camp- y, bell, Roy, Lum-deti, Reid, Rose, Urquhart, Gildawie, o, Torrid, M'Laren, Ross, Leslie, and Buyers. Id .The Inspector read a copy of circular addressed, on the 1st inst., ...

... Imperial Paritantrill. I HOUSE-OF LORDS-Tlucrstoy, reUk 10. if Both Houses of Parlianeent re-assemibled to-dwy The L~ord Chanceller gave notice that on Monday next he n- wouild state thle intentions of the Goversinuent with respect to 0 legal reform, ti 0Lord St. Leonardo laid onl thle table a Series of hills einboilying ,- thle- law reform-, of whichI hie Iintd giveni notice in November last ...