... OLDIMACHAR PAROCHIAL BOARD. SaturdagSept. 23, t A special meeting of the General Purposes Committee of the f Perochial Board of Old Macbar was held within. the Poor's Office this day-Professor Ferguson presiding. a PRECAUTIONART .MiAS5RES AGAIXNT CnOLIERA. The COATUMAN stated that he had called this meeting with. - out any loss of time after the receipt of official documents, in order that ...

... W-IE KLI: - 0OMP , O-Z . The policeof Friburg have just promulgated-two maeasures by the bellman, one interdicting every person under' axtebn years -of age from' smokiig; and the otherxecoummneding- parents not to allow their ehildren to play with chemical matches. * An ixamense block of marble has just been landed at Thames Bank, Pimlico, out of which Will be worked the largep, taza for -the ...

... .Tim Fintray Hortus Club held their last show for the season, in the School-room, Hatton, on Saturday the 3d instant. The display of flowers, fruits, and roots, was good, being a decided :improvenent over last year in the quality of the productions exhibited. Mr Glennie, Fintray House, sent, for .exhibition a collection of most superb vegetables, for which the' garden of Fintray House is so ...

... (LO Thursday, Sent. 30. coi a. jiqs ameeting of the Town Council was field this day- ret ~cLard Prvstpeiding. M Veseflt-Baillies Hendersoit and Ross;- the Dean of Guild, 1 Treasurer Elmoly; Dr, Christie; Messrs Watson, Gibb, Co 33erry, Jamieson, Gordon, Anderson, and Leslie. am OntAVMAR SCHOOL MSIATERSHIP. PR lepOVOST stated that the meeting bad been called for the I (wes f receiving, the ...

... id A Quarterly General Court of the President and Managers of , 6 the Royal Infirmary was held on Monday-tie Lord Provost 7e presiding. is Rev. Dr PIRIE called attention to the fact that the former I e, Chaplain had not been fully paid his salary, a claimn having s been made by Mr Storie for additional labour in visiting the D Lunatic Asylum, imposed by the regulations of last December. Dr P. ...

... DIOCESE OF MORAY ANI) ROSS. Tin Annnal Synod of this Diocele was hold. in--St. Jah'. Chapel, Inverness, on the 31st ult., the Rev. T. F. Creery, M:A.t T.C.D., preaching an excellent sermon before it, from Luke xxii. 28, 29, 30. There were present oa the occasion the Bishop, eleven incumbents, and two licensed clergymen. In detailingl the events of the year, the Bishop stated that the Chapel at ...

... TURRETF HORTICULTURAL SVIETY. i - I '. . - 1, TnT. third and last cormpetition for the season of the Turriff, Hortionltural Secietb -was held in the Townr Nall, Turriff, on Biday thae 16th Sept. There was a. very large assortment of cut'ffower3, fruits, inid vegetables , :ar tgs .a% latter, we ob- served a very.tastefully arrauged basket eontaining,.no fewer than. 4-differeflt linds; it ...

... ENG LAN~D. The ex-Royal family of France, now sojourning at ClaremontI hare made arrangements for leavini England forthwith, ona visit to Queen Donna Maria, and the King Consort (Ferdinand,~ of Saxe-Coburgr), at Lisbon. The illustrious exiles, including the ex-Queen Marie Anielie, the Prince and Princess de Joiuville, the Duchess of Orleans, the Count de Paris, and a numerous suite, will ...

... Totke eEDITOER of the ABERDEEN :JOSNA. 3, CNOAADAAS AN EMIGRA GON` FIELD. LETTER II. SIR,-My lettersof -.-3da lt.-whieaswppeared in the gzfnarl O; of last weak-ceoncluded with the folleeisg qncestions,.which, for pergpieeuity,:I shallillere repeat:-''eetlhere no paupers in dn Canada I Is. it advsahble that we should a3l emigrate'? -Would we all become riab,. ifi there? '? With reference to ...

... KInTORE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Thjethird- nd last show for the season of this Society was; held in'tbe Parochial School-room and Town-hall, on Tuesday Ilast, the I3th current..' The number of specimens exbibited in. 3' almost' eVery class, was fully as great as at the correspond- r Ing showlast season, and were decidedly superior in point of qnltg.' '8pace does not permit us to notice all the ...

... WEEKLY COMPENDIUML. The bridge over the St. Lawrence will be Mr lRobert Stephen- son's greatest bridge aebievement, for he has to contend with difficulties even greater than those at the Menai Straits. It is to be two and a half miles long. An ancient American pyramid has been discovered in the great Colorado desert, on the route to California, Other dis- coveries had also been made, which ...

... * BY :ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. PARIS,. Monday.-The MAoniteur contains another denial of the statement made by foreign journals that large quantities of corn have been purchased by the French Government. The purchase, says the Motiitetr, of 415,000 hectolitres, made about six weeks ago in England, for the army and navy, is the only act of the kind which 'can have fuinished a pretence for such an ...