... PLOUGHING MATCHES' I OLDsACriAn-Thie fddghiring mratch, c~ me Off 'on Tue~sda`y~ 'week, on Mr Stoddart's farm of Aryburn. Thirty-four ploughs assembled. The Judges-Mr keith, fromt Oliasterty'. Mr. Ed- wards, from Nigg; Mr Michie, Glen of' Dyes-awarded the prizes to the following :-l, John Dawson, farmer, Qoarry bog 2, John Elm, servant to Mr.Wm. Scttt,. Whitestripese; 3, John Hardy, do. to' Mr ...

... |::A ST'ARANG RACE IN THE HIR OUNA.Pti Through the very centre of the Great B~asin ~runs the Rio ceo. ed 1orado ChiquitO, or Little Red -River. It takes iterise in the, rs; mountains that skirt the right bank of, the Rio Graends, flows soalms due west,. and empties into the Clrd'a'apoiaf' on- th aeparallel of latitndb'with'Wialker's Pass, ' Alhaillt 1 in)mls nhorth of this, and rnnhin~ng'a nl ...

... P; - OU H . L UC HES :-I PLOUGAHG HATCBES . ; f 1;, - p I - - . . .. 7 Ls toaf zlj'-RAYNtE, ee. 2.-The annual ploughing mateb~o thi landaof Kirk-, Wet town, Rayne-,wasbheldona-field~of Mr Low.'si,uNorth, Newvton. The Claer Fl udges..Messrs. Ander~soni, Warthill.Mains; ,Cewie, Mossbead; and s P,1I Lamb -overseer~,Kinbroon-,whose decision gave i~tntfaction, awarded Sodl of the pifzeii ks ...

... P'LOUGHIIING MATCH ii OF TIHE OL.D MONKLAND, BARONY, BOTIIWELL AND Ig CADDtscIM FARMING SOCIETY. to The annual plonghing match of this respectable anld hiflu- is cntial society took placc on Friday last, the Ilth current, oil r' the farm of Mr. W illilla M 'Cean, Lnllulech, Cadder Parish. . e- It hlad been originally intended that the miatch should take il place oil Friday the 1lthI Iltidino, ...

... LANARIC RACES. M ?? 99,sv? pd TirunwoAir, Sir-lnt22. The first day's races caine off to-daly. Tlhe wrea ther was n rather unepropitious, hut thle amhmer of Spectators Was immense, Cand thle Sport wvitlial first-rate. We observed onl thle CourSe, amiong otbeis, thle fillowiing gentlensen, ic. :-CaptainI Flnisi lg C, of Bigger and Cumbernauld, James Baird, lsq. of' tiartshcrrie, a M.P, Al. J. ...

... i i , ; ' . l D 'I* i- at ;4-~~I - t- inrv~h ~'5t~i.o, ~ oleeifNws Straltidon, for the 1 a, ee redl ovre'rd by the HighlaInd arid AgirirulturealSocietyi of. et Scotlansd,'hnd for' an extra mr~dal5 tro money prerfilums, to the aiur of Lit £,gvnby Sir-Chastei Forbes,'Blirt~,'`of N Vwe hegds. d lb ! a. 'Wards of twentyvyears presented no or~dinery difiriulty, from ~its'~u Ic. A niacity ;'but the ...

... - ?? TOtmOA.sn Theb CHAVF.S STAKICH (handicap), of 5 sovs. each, with 60 added. Mr 11. Hll' Ireland s lye, by Itarkaway, 3 yrs, tst Sib (Well) ?? I rIt. NYbite's The Little Savagc, 4 yrs, 7ot (Steggle) . 2 MATCHl, £100; 1h. ft. }Ir J. M. Stanley's llIbla, by Hlay Mitddleton (Mnrson) ?? ?? I Lord I1. G. Lennox's Gavotte (Ilahtinmi) ?? ?? ?? ?? 2 MATCH £F200. I)oke of ?? Petrel, by Weatiherbit, ...

... PLOUIGHING MATCHES. ri COPLIUENTARY PLOUGHTIGO MATCH.-The members of the To. [in Baniiebory-Deveniek Agricultural Association, and a number, of q- Othe'r purties in'that distiet, anXious to testify their respect W 11, towardi Mr R. W ~~~~~~~Thi II, owads M B alker of. Portlethenl anti Hillside, as, a kind :e r~ud ebb ing neighbour, and.-their sense Of his services as oneFi ce of the ...

... Money hdged at the | Hend Offices and Branches, will be TWO AND A HALF PER CENT. PER ANNUM, until further | ‘or the and Company of the Bank oF W. SIMSON, Assist. Secretary. For the Bank oF JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary. For the Brrrtsu Lives Company, THO. CORRIE, Manager. For the CommerctaL Bank oF ScoTLAND, JNO. S. CUNNINGHAM, Seey. For the Bank oF W. J. DUNCAN, Manager. For the Uxton Bask oF JAs. ...

... ELECTION the select committee appointed by the House to inquire into the singular cireumstanecs connected with the petition against the retura of Messrs Forster and Stapleton for that borough, which has already been tried by an election com- mittee, met on Wednesday. It will be remembered that after the petition was disposed of, it was alleged that the petitioner and one of the unsuccessful ...

... — (From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.) An immense quantity of rain has again fallen during the week, and the feeling of caused by the wet wea- ther previously experienced has consequently increased ; in- deed, the prospects for the future are becoming alarming. Farmers have been compelled to suspend all kinds of out door work, and the land is so completely saturated that it will need a ...

... (From the Standard.) We have already borne testimony to the good sense of the instructions issued by the Board of Health, though compelled regret that ¢ hey come rather too late for prac- to express our has actually visited our tical application, after the pestilence island. ‘This, however, is not the fault of the gentlemen com- posing the board, but of Parliaments and adminis- trations, for ...