... To the nDITOiiof thOe AD~rnDEBT JouIxAL. - 1 - I . . . - . - - - Slit,-I have been a subscriber to your Jotirnal for the last oe* twenty years or eo, and to your friend, the Herald, ever since. iet wassa leralZdsince the days-of Old:John, the Chronicler. I like yomboth; but for different reasone, but I do not conceive of aiam bound to telleither of you why; and Idon't-suppose either th of ...

... WEEKLY COMPENDItM. Aonog the II ish antiquities in tho Dublin Exhibition is a MS. of the'Psalms, written about the year 650, and ascribed to. Qblumba, the Christian founder of Iona. -Sir Edward Bu'wer-Lytton has mode a good bargoin with Mr R6utledge, a young and enterprising publisher. He has sold the copkrightof all his works for a period of ten years, the terms being £2000 a-yeaor FrRST ...

... T: EI D - O D - ;5 !I OLD DIGGINGS. .- : . j . . . - TunE gold regions of Australia have ceased, for many. months, to monopolise public attention with tbczt'ezcl- siveness with which. they ook posgsession of it a'.coupie of years ago.. Privation and su{ ring are not such' pleasing= sbjects ofconatemiplation as the wonderful tales of fortunes made .y the. tdrning of a stone, gold dug out in ...

... ; . .-MISCELi.ANEO U S CCON VEossItNS JO MAHOMMEDANIsm.--The Bisbop~.- of.the ICape of Good Hope menitions one.truly.asstorinding feet-that some Elnglish emigrants have actually leeu converted to Isahom- medanism by certain Malsa' settlers I WITTY RETORT. GnrlZaeb ad a-vet-y long Polish name. The king, having hseard'of it, onedayiek-edhfimngood humouredly - Pray,- Ziaiemiba, what. is your ...

... WbeDNeeD , so0brn*1 'WEiDN;ESDAY, Noveanber 23,1853,1 ...

... A~R PAIqDAV. it DEPARTIRF ,OF, TIIE EINrORCErIE]NTIntelligence from ]h d DevonporbtonTuesday niiht is to the effect tbat thefollowinig at U1 - sailed Imperieuse, 5l (ecrew), apV ai b d soll, C.B.; Desperate, 8 (screw), Captain (Chamberis Valor-i u ous, 16 (paddle), Captain-Bdekle.: Adlmiral'Corry's 9feet' is now I, redui'3,d toea quaidron of three ships of .the line, &e, 1 ,onsisting of tbe' ...

... T TDE TABLE, d&c.,,FOR:T~ E ENSVING WEEK. - - | 7SU I -: TrIDES AT :5 NOVEMBER. ' . . ABERDEEN Rises, MSets r Lorn. Even. Wedsusday ,._ 3 8- 2 a. N. 40. i. Li 5! .5 , S~aturs y -__ 38 2278 3t3.228- S 2 47 9 9 ~~ 48 29 3 27 4~~~~~~~~~3 3., 3571 4 23 449 Tuesday 6 ° l8 32 3 .2 6 -6 J 3317 [ , ^ '-PRIC~E OF TlEEJOURN'AL. DBSL6VERED 1N TOv |: SEtTJNnDER COVER. Paid in Advance. Credit. Paid in ...

... . - 'll-, ;.. N,a 5'tf'*Djnen 'arn,Ee Be, itheuai h~ew.hasyfa, 14sin j i Adamld Xori e s isdfaih . rWn DOn ., a t seEsq s-Clark Ies - '.i i , i eagfisi- . It is Flec s Eel l '.' titeai au'd 67gh Gu~icll tZ--ainres t B kderuiEeq.,, in fi ri AtlIONiL Vfit:inScj'h2O'e T icsel We belj -vthpr fis'7 a cwi o doubt thust Ltoid Fulrton ies resi-nsic ~pth~eJir , offibe ich ith so mucht t ...

... (Proln the London Papem of Mondy. ) LONDON CORN MARKET.--MoNDAY. At Mark Lane to-day there was an exceedingly small show of wheat from the' hors counties;' and but few offers from Lincoln- shire, aud thatneighbourhood. Ths stands were quickly clear,ed, and though prices were nob' generally quoted higher, the turn was decidedly. in favour of the seller. There was a good in- quiry for. Foreign ...

... IF any person who had witnessed the popular agitation that preceded the Reform Bill were to a6rive in this' country, after -a few years' absence and inattention to the newspapers, he would be somewhat astonished to; find a new measure about to make its appearancee.In the midst of an almost universal silence, broken only'.by calm admonition and gentlemaily. recommendation. He would be at a loss ...

... 9 There was no delivery of the South Mail yesterday evening, I the mail bags having arrived at the Post-office only at 10j c P.M. The detention, we leoan, was occasioned by a goods' train having run off the line at Crewe, which de- - tained the mail train for about four baum. We are, of course, without the London papers of Monday evening, q and our correspondence from the South. 7 BY ELECTRIC ...

... FF EH U , -H - COIM I ;SI O . (FREE.CEHUE' 'G'M SS,,O . ,;; . ;1f.' .- . . .. _; _ 1,'' (i, !' ;-' . o ne Wed. y- Sm e.*' ,..lT~he Commrission appcen~ted 29th inst.,asaB day of 1iimilsiatiqp tbroughout, the Free Crhutrch,, on account of ;,the visitation of !cholera, -with)tbhe reservation ,that( thi's ahould not. apply to thiose plades where such aA , .,-,epo4reirlative sto, ...