... The thirtieth report of the Commissioners of Her Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues—being their first report under the Act 14 and 15 Vict., c. 42—has just been issued. By tho act of 1851, the management of the hereditary posses- sions of the Crown was separated from that of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, the First Commissioner of the Joint Board taking the latter department, and the ...

... rHE THEATRE. Mr MsiKean Dachanan, 3 American Tragedian, who ap- at Deary Lane last season, commenced an engagement hers, ot Monday evening, as Hamlet, ant has since per- fo m:! Macheth and Othello. This candidate for the high- est hoxours of the dramatic art, is described in the bil!s as “the celebrated If this eclebrity was acquived in Ameri- ca, we think Mr Bachanan should have rested ...

... “A Gusese or ax Homesteap.”—* His Grace | Tae Deke or Avpxessinc tur House or Peers.” Tus is a very interesting clever painting, by Mr J. F. Her- ring. an animal painter of very considerable merit. It con- sists mainly of a group of those animals usually accumulated about a farm. At all events the rest of the composition is of inferior value, and does not seem to have received the same amount ...

... EAST-LOTHIAN AGRICULTURAL REPOWT (Written for the Caledonrin reurg. ) The weather May bas been frequently cold ar indy. About the sceond week of the month we had all the se asons of the year—cenial spring during the day time, the heat of summer, cool shaking winds of antmmn, and the stormy Dhast of wii accompaniod by snew, hail, and ice. in the course of four days the heat being most intense ...

... Piterature A Visit to Mexico py Wesr Istanps, axp Ustrep Srates, with Onsenvations anp Apven- TURES on THe Way. By W. P. Robertson, author of “ Letters on Paraguay,” &c., 2 vols. London : Simpkin,, Marshall, & Co. Mr Robertson, accompanied by a daughter, sailed from Southampton by the West India steamer towards the close of 1848, as commissioner from the Spanish American Bond- holders to the ...

... ‘Tut Dopp Apsroap. No. 10. By C. Lever. London : Chapman & Hall, Piccadilly. is one of the liveliest portions of this most amusing and interesting history which have yet appeared; and gives ex- cellent promise of what the reader may yet expect. Mr Lever describes in a most agreeable manner the disastrous conse- quences of an unfortunate pic nic; at which the Dodds, after having first invited ...

... LORD BANKRUPTCY (SCOTLAND, BILL. (from a One exception has occurred to the neglect which the inte- rests of generally receive at the hands of Parlia- ment, a committee of London merchants having associated themselves together, some little time ro, with no other ob- ject in view than to confer the * inestimable blessing” of their The Scotch mercan- own mercantile law upon this country. tile Inw ...

... BLEAK HOUSE—Parr ror Marcu. London: Bradbury & Evans. Tuts story is making but slow progress; and the further it advances the more clearly does it appear to be an iilastration of one of the mischiefs besetting the serial form of publication, and our literature generally. Mr Dickens has evi- dently undertaken the story without any clear idea of how it was to end, and trusting solely to time and ...

... & Arnproatn Week ending March 20. s 6307—Receipts, £221 18 54 228 9 6 £450 711} Corresponding™ eekin 6 4 & Rartwar Week ending March 20. Passengers, 3444—Receipts, ..- £242 10 5 G]00dS, 38616 2 - £629 6 Corresponding week in 618 11 & Dexpee Week ending March 20. Passengers, 15,889—Recei £2103 4 g week oy 1852, 2301 16 Norra Week ending March 20. ae 2 10} Passengers, 14,353--- 311 ...

... at a quarter before one o'clock. Cuarr or tor Norrn-West Passace.—Messrs W. and A. K. Johnston have very promptly published an extremely clear and well-arrangsd chart of the Arctic Regions, distin- guishing the routes and discoveries of the various explorers in search of Franklin, and having special reference to the recent discoveries of Captain M‘Clure. So minute is this chart that the ...

... On Saturday night an extravaganza, which adds another to the numerous successes of the present management in bur- lesque and spectacle, was produced under the title of Cinderella. It is founded on the fable of the Fairy and the Glass Slipper. and besides being pervaded by a brilliancy of humour, equal- ling, if not surpassing, any of the more recent works of this class, has afforded an ...

... MONUMENT TO DR MOIR A’ MUS LBURGIT On Friday, the monument erected to the late Dr Moir, at Musselburgh, was publicly inaugurated. The site of the me- morial is on the right bank of the Esk, and at the east end of the New Bridge. It consists of a statue of 84 feet, upon a pedestal of 20 feet. The statue, which is the work of Mr A. Handyside Ritchie, has given much satisfaction, the coun- ...