... QLORD PAL1NEW.STON IN THIE NORTH, The freedoma of the burgh of Perth was conferred by the town council OF that city upon Viscount Pisimorston, on Monday last, in the city-hall there, in presence of about 2,030 persons. The lord provost, mn pt'eeeuting the burgess ticket, dwelt can some of the more prominent points in the Career of the noable lord, and concluded by saying: I will only add, that ...

... I THlE GARDEN -BY Wr. Q'enhV. SEASONA2BLE GARDENING Tbere would be ?? for October and Novecmber if tlaere was any dependeice on the weather. We may be burned ap or ice-bound, without either being a novelty; bat we may be worne than either, we may be swamped. Wet autumne are the greatest piagues to gardenecs. It is true that in large establishuaents they can always fizd work enougr. under cover ...

... DOCTOR WISEWAN M DI' DA VINVOL Premuising (arites A CO ?? ) that I am no friend to the papacy or the preterniions of the Rorairh priesthood, your corressideur of last woees, signing hiuc. self AITM-CHURCI bIILITTAeOT, offers certain objet. tiots to Dsctor iVisecian'lS ussay Ctn Leonardo ds riL;cis' paint nr (the snluject, the Los Mapper) hicsh aipear so deoid if justice, that witih yocr ?? ...

... JOHN FROG AND JOHN BhU.LL. We all know the old, time-honoured fable of the frog that, smitten with admiration andi envy of the magnitude of the bull that grazed in the neighbourhood of the frog's pond, resolved to be- come as big and burley as the mighty beast itselfe We all know the profound moral preached by the result: envy and vanity did their work, and the poor frog burst like an over ...

... -.7* +h.w ?? lo;hh+_ On Monday night, a crowded meeting ot toe naan- ants of Stafford, convened by public requisition to the mayor, was held in the Lyceum, for the purpnse if me- morialising the Queen on the Russian invasion of the Turkish provinces. The hour fixed for the meeting was six o'clock, but long before that time the place vras filled in every part by a numerous and enthusiastic ...

... The Roman Calendar is, it is certain, very full of saints. Full as the one-shilling gallery on the trial night of a pantomime. In their mortal clay, too, nota few of the canonized have been as noisy -sometimes, moreover, about as sweet-mouthed- as the holiday gods at a shilling or sixpence a-head. Neveithless, with a crowded calendar, the world still requires another saint - we mean SAINT ...

... OUR COXTEPFCSRARIE.- CITY CE-METERY IN THE CO-CgaRsiY(.+lncs.-The strange medley of monument, toe quaint imnerlptionS, and the heaving sods ot thle 'country churchyard will often preach better ?? that can be heard within; and everybody would feel the village chutch to be no longer itself w ithout the gravestones clustering round it. The crowded metropolitan churchyard is nothing more or lees ...

... The Emperor of Austria wants a loan. Take care of sour pockets, gentlemen! The hope of Austriais shortofeash. Francis-Joseph-Jeremy- Diddler, making a bow upon 'Change, begs to ask capitalists if thev have such athing as 30,000,000 florins about them. Gentlemen capitalists, do take care of your pockets! Austria having been twice bankrupt, it might be thought unnecessary to caution the ...

... We are again called upon to wonder at and de- nounce the tyrannous bigotry of. the Duke of Tuscany-the Grand Duke. Hie has caught and locked up a spinster lady, named Margaret Cunninghame, a lineal descendant of John Knox. Miss Cunninghame gave away an Italian Bible, and an Italian translation of the Pilgrigm's Progress, books forbidden by the Pope; the last book being especially condemned ...

... The destructive storais k'eown as the equinoctial gales, which are generally experienced at this period of the year, set in with more than usual violence. They commenced from the south-west early on Sunday forenoon, and the storm visited rimost all parts of tl e coast. Towards even. lng the wind veered reu:ed to the north-west, and at mid. night raged with the fury nearly of a hurricane. In ...

... GREAT FIRE N4AR COVENT-GADEN. On Fridey morning, between thehours of four and five, a fire, attended with a great destruction of valuable pro' perty, broke out in the extensive range of premises be. longing to Messrs. Seville and Edwards, printers, No, 4, Chandos street, Covent-garden. The premises in ques- tion extended from the street almost as far as half-way into the Strand. They were ...

... SEAMLEN'S STRITM, AT SOUFH SHIELDS. A very nunsereus deuxonetration ot seamen and pitmen belos..ing to the Ive aid Wear was hell in South Shields on Mondzy. During the forenoel, narlay 3,000 potonl;, two-thirds ef tne eL sailors, walked in procession throug A 2the principal streets of the towns of South and North Shields, and in the afternoon a large meeting was helL on the Bents, near the ...