... 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 ...

... DEATn OF GENERAL Sue C. IMHOFF-We have to record re the death of General Sir C. Imhoff. Sir Charles was originally ,y in the German service, which he entered in 1786. ie was g afterwards a Captain in the Berkshire Militia, and his first com-sti ci mission in .the regular army was that of Captain in the Ist Life Ai r- Guards in 1799. General Imhoff was subsequently on the Re- cruiting Staff, ...

... WEDNESDAY, Februavy 23, 1853. P A R L I A M E N T. PARIIAluENT has been 'unusually busy since it re-as. re sembled, and the deba.tes-tha~t have taken place have Ge given diversity to its proceedings without delaying 'WI public business. ml no LA-,vRrFORMs.-On Monday week, the Lord Chan- gr ce~llr stated the intentions of the Government on the subject of legal reform ; and although his lordship ...

... ST. NICHOLAS PAROCHIAL BOARD, ,y The stated monthly meeting of this Board was held on Sa- etilrday, for the purpose of imposing the assessment for the year, iand other business. Baillie Williamson presided, is PRESENTr-Baillie Ledingbaut; Messrs M'Laren, Urquhart, . IB| Rose, Henderson, Leslie, Lurmsden, Torrie, Middleton, Gildawie, Sutherland, Reid, Crombie, Gray, Camp. bell, Calder, and ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ! I 1 Saturday, eray 7. The usual monthly meeting of the City Parochial Board was held this day-Baillie Williamson presiding. Present-Baillie Ledingham; Messrs M'Laren, Urquhart, Ross, Sutherland, Rose, Gildawie, Lumisden, Gray, Leslie, Calder, Middleton, Campbell, and Torrie. The Clothing Committee reported the acceptance of estimates. COLLEOTION OF LArES. The following note was submitted ...

... e THI Pontiff's decision, in the dispute between the Aroh- I o bishop of Paris and the Editor of the Univers, has caused a Iome a good deal of curious speculation. The mannuer in 'r T. which the Archbi~blop has slubmitted, shsews that; what-t been ever form the Gallican Church may. assuime hereafter, * the its vital independence is gone; and, sooner or later, it ry of must submit to the ...

... 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 ...