... 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 ...

... * 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 ...

... 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 ...

... WEEKLY COMPENDIUM!C. Dr Cartwright, of New Orleans, asserts, from personal caped- to snce, that a few hours spent in a sugar manufactory, inhaliug hi the saccharine fumes, is a certain cure for consuimption. hic It is in contemplation to crect an organ in the New Tonu of Hall, Leeds, of a more powerful character, and at a greater coso, ); than the very magnificent organs at Birmingham and ...

... 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 ...

... FRE IGHTS. (From the Circular of Messr8 Gtoodlife and Sin t.) te 17, Gracechurch Street, London, Sept. 1. At the-date of our last report there was a temporary depression in -. the Grain market, und rather a pause in. Freights, but.the opinion we tic then expressed that this would only be tempbliary has been fully th verified; the ,rain trade has made-an important advance, and with of the very ...

... THE WEATHI APD CROPS. 'ShsrcI n oN.-The month just peat was of tbe most genial 1 Y, kin& p to the 25th, at whbith time its 'chrradter was entirely ¢; chanled from dry to the grettest excess oP 'wet weather. On thegight of 24tb, there was *a very 'low temperature, so much 3; t o ( ;deg.) as to alarm medt parties for i ts teffects Howvever,. ,the awn of next day wee brought'in vith a sky ...

... FOREI.GiN AFFAIRS. t AItE Turkish question is said to be satisfactorily pro- r essing towards a sdttlement; but we cannot say that l d tie progress during the last few weeks has been at all l e r markable, unless it be on the side of the Russians, in c rryeng everything before them. The note adopted byl ' the Four Powers was,-after ten days' consnltatio, if not f virtually rejected by the ...

... de, Tu pub) lic and formoal inahiguration 6f this -line of' faIl' hp wIay took plac~eon Wednesday last. The Directors-hadi.iavt w a party Of some' 201) gentlemen connected w.ithi the cotity, in-,.t cludingi the civic au'.thorities, merchants. bahnkeri§ aicd ohem tr and no-st'of them very Tehdily'evailed thesntstvteof th'e oppor., se tunity of enjoying an excursion ao novel and ~pleasaht~s :a ...

... I R ELAND. TB.E PLEST AT usneaower. - Tle Deebli epeaossti4-1 Advertiseri states tiat-sailing ordersfor the fleet atQ16enatown were houirly expected, and that the officcrs and sailors were'for- biddell to lnave tbeir ships-; their destination is said to'beothe Baltic. TnE QiUPEE ASD 1 amu DUB:IiN SANITARY ASSOCIATTOO. -A communication has been received in Dublin bySir Edwartl Borougl. ]'mt., ...

... IO1vF.1iist, ThuTsday, Sept. 15'&. of The annual reunion of Highland proprietors and southerri i. sportsmen commenced to-day, and promises, in point of num. ig bers, to be fully equal to that of any previous year. Some re. n- cent deaths will detain members of Highland families, but our n. English visitors are assembling in great force, and the balls lie will be brilliantly attended. Among ...

... 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 ...