... WEEKLY COMPENDIlJU. Um:]-f-1. r-hnle~ Lot fl.- BAS a.. -i wh IO Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Great Evhibition of 185-1 au of have liberally granted to the Society of Arts two hundred and *ffect fifty copies of the jarors' reparts, for distribution amnong the in- uliar stitatious in union wvith it, hich Miss Drunsesond, the eldest daughter of the London bankerc m all has just expired at ...

... EXECUTION OF GEOP.GE CHRISTIE. 05 Os the morning of Thrursdlay lest, thig wretcir~d individural explirteri, onl the scaffold in front. of the Town-Hoeso here, the it horrid crime of the murders of Mrs Rosas and her gr-aridhijld, Inear IKittybrewster, onl the 4tb October lest. iSince receivingiris sentence be-fore thle High Court of itisti- ciery, onl tile 23d ult,, Christie lied conducted ...

... a Sib c-T - l:-OWEflDAY, Jahuary 19,1853. - -- - ~~~~~~~~who l - we mnight judge by appearances, we would he inclinedTh to set down business as the great object and purpose of that an Englishmnan's life, and pleasure as the chief end of the s' that of a F renchman. We presume, were both to be tajus minutely examined into, that we would find the differ- it is once more apparent than real; but ...

... To f/ie EDITOR of Itoe ABoRrEsnN JOURNAL, ins for -Aogthe measures Wivchl will call for the attention thi 0 il I -cgI-Il~tire in thle present session. Of Parliament, that of tci tcr,,ccJijIJ Sehoolmasters' Bill is, perhaps, the moat impor- toet is1 rc.spects the interests of the rising generation, to this' 50is I',tKinigdom o f Scotland. At ai very early period of ou r ti~~i'. e wreindbted to ...

... T'rr flioulti are extracts from letters just received from a .r is etetgrlterd to Australia a few years ago. They C I' lit ted to his muther in London :- Melbourne July 30, 1852. toldl rou of my start for the diggings, wvith mIy stores, &e., * i of the 2Stl oF April. On1 my arrival cur compnly Q Upi rad II joining wvith Dr IMC., w0orked there till the rd eof June (il the most part of the ...

... TU23- LA-T I-IAL1~'-E- - -- TfIl LAST HIALF-CENTURY. nage |1L p 000; N.I flea- WHATEVER other good may have been, or may be here- this after, produced by the Great Exhibition, we have one islal- valuable specimen of its fruits before us in the shape of U or! the Reports of the Juries on the subjects of the thirty tion classes into which the Fxhibition was divided. These 1 reports form a ...

... ANGUS AND MEARNfS COURSL\G CLUj13 I . Mt The spring meeting of this Club, wlich has how i rl enee for three years, came off onl WRcdiicsd l rid Tl ks On the first day, a large number of spectators en(log;l ed The weather wats not altogether f8rorrdjlinttll'Qar. - start was made and the interest of tile sport was he ,s much spirit. The Cusn ssO0it h Club, and one half of thie dogas opn to thro ...

... - -THE profound detestation with which slavery is regarded by almost everyindividual in this country is scarcely sus- ceptible of increase. Neither the matter-of-fact state- ments of statistical reports, nor the more impressive pictures of dramatic fiction can add to it very materially. They may, however, work it up to a temporary excite- ment, and bring it to speak out its mind as they have ...

... StoltitorY' Mect~ing of the Board of Police, was ,v-:,!l the I ord Provolst pr'esidling. 1' j, Dc- of Guild; City Trcesurcr, Sheriff Wilt- C,1o1euer Watson; Messrs Buyers, T.opp, Smith, it1 jfillry, Spark, D)enCaln, Calde'r, Eddie, Shoerr, Ness, Bi'tSilnRose, and Matthews. Ih Ft INn , OANCE. tlCommittee reported having examined the ac- 11~i~or: r fr pa int t the term, and authorized Jtb t ...

... ,AND AN1D Am.TU.TTTLT'RrAT. Q0TP9PV HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The half-yearly general meeting of this Society was hold on h Tuesday afternoon, in the Hall, Albyn Place-the Earl of Rosslyn, t Viec-Presirl cnt, it the chair. a The first business was the ballot for admission of new mem- ' bers. Fifty-nine gentlemou-forty-three of whom are tenant- t farmlers-wero unanimously admitted, ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGLNCE. On Wednesday die Ottoman Arnbarus~ead ~ctpof the whole body of the Letgation, Presented l re.,PiA, an Em peror. creletti ii - The Pet-ic Of Toesdlay contains an off~icil uI-i` w 6-specech attributed to Colonel floury at a banue ie-f sofficers of his rogiment, and in which lesoeo k iFrance being the Rhine, and of thleirn! ai, who would take these limits by forceidesCi ...

... ARMY AND IAVY. pie Jr. Lieutenant-Genesal Sir Charles Napier has presented the 22d nuat J. Foot with a very handsome piece of silver plate, which cost a l as about 300 guineas, composed of a column of bao-relief, repro- th. ht. senting the battle of Seinde, in which the regimentwas engaged, to I til The whole is surmounted by an equestrian statuette of Sir o Lis Charles himself. ber se ...