... LONDON WITHOUT CARS On Wednesday, the metropolis stood, as Sir Charles We- therell once phrased it, in a “parenthesis of vehicularity.” There was not only a dearth, but an absolute famine of loco- motion, and never since the days of Charles IL, when hackney- coaches were first invented, have the sight-seeing and out- going public been reduced to such an extremity of helpless- ness as by the ...

... CK OATS. GENERAL POST OFFICE, August 4. Mails Last Nest tehed from | Packet Decket wn. Sovrnamptoy (By Day Mail)» Spain Teh, Madrid, Gibraltar. \ of every month. Aug. 8. Aug. 16. Gibraltar, Malta, Greece. ith and 20th of and Tonian Islands, Ripon, | In- every month. | Aug. 4 Ang. 20. dia, and China. Australia. 4th of every alternate math. July 4. British Colonies in). ' West Indies ( | ...

... AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF SCOTLAND The returns of the agriculiural statistics of the counties of Roxburgh, Haddington, aud Sutherland, recently to both Houses of Parliament, have just been published Thev are accompanied by the following letter :— Edinburgh, 2 25th July 1853. Sin,—lI beg to acknowledge ree receipt of your letter of the 3th, which I hav aken the liberty of publishing in the ...

... GRANGEMOUTH SHIPPING Annivep.—Aug. 16. Vulean, Cowan, Rotterdam, goods- Clyde (s 8), Watt, London, do.—17. Vowartz, Wegener, Hamburgh, do.—Cygnet, Johnston, Rotterdam, do.—Mina, Bethelimider, Dantzic, Thornaby, Watson, Rot- terdam, goods—Sophia, Wendler, Hamburgh, do.—19. Hull Packet, Cramond, Hull, do.—20. Bradrenes Slaab, Hanson, Dram, battens- Haab, Anderson, do., do.—Verande, ...

... Shipping Sntelligence, SOUND LIST. Angust 2. Jean, Wallace, Alloa. Cronstadt —Hope, Jamie- son, Aberdeen, Dantzie—Zephyr, Herd, Dundee, do.—Ossian, Scott, Dundee, Cronstadt—John and Rebecca, Moon, Wick, Stettin.—4. Commodore, Watt, Riga, Dundee — Barbara, Ro- bertson, Dundee, Konigsberg—Gipsy Queen, Wilson, Mac- duff, Stettin. Winds at Elsinore.-—August = > SW. WNW.—3 SW WNW.—4. WNW.—5. WNW. ...

... A meeting of the General Commissioners of Police was held ou Mouday—Mr Gordon presiding. RATE OF ASSESSMENT. A report of the Law and Finance fixing the rate of assessment for the following year at Is 5d per pound on rents above L.10, and 8d per pound on rents below L.10, was agreed to. PARLIAMENTARY REPURNS, The same committee reported that they had had ander consi- deration a letter from Mr ...

... IURY ‘COURT_SEC ‘OND DIVISK YN Aveust 12. CLUNIE OF ANNUITY. In this case the pursuer is Mr Robert Clunie, lately merchant in South America, executor of the deceased Lieu- tenant-Colonel James Oliphant Clunie, C.B.; Johu Graham Stirling, Esq. of Duchray and Anelyle, is the defender The question at issue will be understood by the following summary of the statement of facts forthe parsuer. The ...

... tlarkhets. Te GRAIN & SEED MARK TS, &e. LOSDON CORN MARKET —August 5. The arrivals of English wheat up to our market coustwise during the present week, and fresh up to-day, were on the increase, and in fair average condition. Owing to the fineness of the weather for the crops, and the large imports from abroad, the demand for all kinds of wheat of home produce ruled heavy, and Monday's prices ...

... HINTS FOR A NEW EDITION OF TITE DRAMATISTS. (From Punch.) We have been favoured with a glimpse of the note-book ot a great dramatic critic, who evidently contemplates giving, or selling to the world, a great national treat in the form of a new edition of the dramatists. ‘The annotator seems to com- bine all the acuteness of the needle with the straightforward blantness of the railway buffer. ...

... SCHOULS will be made in the Churches and Chapels throughout Scotland on Sannarn the 2st current. August 15, 1853. PEE B L ES RAILWA me Nortee ts Gives. That the FIRST ORDINARY | MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of « THE PEEBLES | RAILWAY will be beld within che County Hatt, Peebles, upon Tuesday, the 23d day of August current, at Twelve noon, ir conformity with the Act of Incor- tien; and, inter ...

... MONZIE Lamb and Cattle Market was held on the usual stance on Wednesday last. The attendance of buyers and sellers was nu- | Inerous, There were between 3000 and 4000 lambs on the ground, | many of them very superior Cheviots, which sold from 18s to 20s _ each. Highland crosses were readily bought by Lowland farmers at from 12s to 14s 6d - inferior sorts from 7s Gd to 10s Gd. The sheep stock ...

... EDINBURGIL INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION or YOUNG LADIES. 1! Park The aunnal examination of the classes in this important institution took plice on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday - last, the 25th, 26th, and 2 ‘ th ult.. in presence of a numerous assem! of the parents of the pupils, clergymen, and others interested in the prosperity of this most valuable class of our edueational establishments. ...