... HOUSE OF LORDS (THIS DAY). SCOTTISH MILITIA. In answer to the Duke of Montrose, The Earl of AsIERDEEN stated that he had previously been misunderstood. The militia in Scotland is to consist of 10,000 men, and is to be called up this year. Lord BsoOUGHAM expressed his approval of the proceedings of the British government, to prevent war, and strongly con. demned those of the Czar in encouraging ...

... I I ON Friday, Sir JOHN HAND1ER presented a petition from Mr. JOHN HEWITT GALLOWAY, complaining very properly of the bad faith kept towards himself and others, by the proposal to disfranchise them, after an assurance that they would be protected from all forfeitures and penalties as the consequence of their disclo- sures. But the petition gravely goes on to as- sure the House that the ...

... WE confess we have been startled by the character of the secre and confideutial corres- pondence between the RUSSIAN EixrEuon and the English government, which has just issued from the QUEEN'S printers. We deal in no ex- aggeration when we say that the State docu- ments which have been this week made public, exceed in interest and importance any that have seen the light since the ...

... I I 2Vee following st, speciall cyosnpiled fors MAartood's Diredovy atnd Reister, ezhibits the number of ships lost in the Davis Straits and Greenland Fisheries, from 1816 to 1853, inclusive. 1816. 1829 n Name. Port. Tons. Name. Port. Tons. Earl Fife, Banff . 290 Rookwood, London ?? 363 1817 Jane, Aberdeen . 280 London, Hull. 310 Home Castle, Leith . 311 Daumtless, London. 286 1830. ...

... GAR D ENING. . . . f , .. 1 s5. h CONSOnIATORIY, &c.-Some of the specimens planted out in the borders, and also some of the twiners, will soon be startinginto growth o especially if the weather should be bright ; the soil about their roots [e ought, therefore, to be in a moist healthy state. and if such is not the d case, give two or three liberal soacings with soft water, a few degrees warmer ...

... W1EEKLSY COMPENDTIUM. Sir John Bowring has full power to negotiate- a treaty Wvith S.am. wheenever-circunistances are favourable for doing so A Treisury warrilant, reducingl t1e3 ratea of posage on leutters ta the Balti fleet to Oil. is psablished. Thie port of coninninica- tion with the North Sea fleet is Great Grimsby. I More than one hundred mernbers of the House of Common6 have addressed a ...

... I R EL A MD. .L L l- .. -. Ll - .. - a- , The Governuent, through the Lord Lieutenant ius £61,00( to the Society for the Encouragement of tlio Grokvte of Flax in Ireland. DAUAGrS AGAINST ME. SADL1ER, ALP. - The action brought by Dawling against Mr Sadlier, M.P., for cons1piracy to procure the plaintifts arrest, in order to prevent him frol, exercisin- his franchbioe by voting, as he ...

... STRANDING OF, A VEaSEL AT! ROWNHAM. I n accident similar in its consequ .ences to that which befel thel Demerara in Nov. 1851 haippefied. on Monday morning, withpi aahfoitt distartie of, the same, spot, to tht ship Rea. -Mol~exq, ofl~Verpod.l- Thie'Refuge; whioh'wee twned pafttlyb ~hiirqaiialu,,and'.partly bky 'l essta;Vilsoel, of Liverpool. tvas lypil kudwfinu thitipdit all havoin made one, ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, FEB. 28. Lord Doxooossusoa, in moving the second reading of several bills to amend the relations of landlord and tenant in t Ireland, described the hardships which were constantly In- flicted both on buyers and occupiers under the present faulty state of-the law, He managed his own landed property, and r from his experience of the obstacles to improvement which t the ...

... he A man of philosophic temperament resembles a cucumber; RI e. for although he bay be completely cut up, he still remains W In, fd ool.-Diogeates.n , An Orleans paper says that it requires three persons to start 34 MD a busines firm there; one to die with yellow fever, one to get he kiled in a duel, and a third to wind up the partnership Me- business.l e- In a tract distributed by the Mormon ...

... .-C tha I nnrnn l ,V,- gh At a recent meeting of the London Farmers' Club, the vs. subject of agricultural statistics was discussed; and a resolu- is. tion passed, that the collection of such sratistics by govern- est ment would be a public benefit, though of no particular ad- n- vantage to farmers; and the farmers will assist the scheme, ip- provided it be carried out in a mariner as little ...

... I A letter, written by the Hon. GRANTLRy F. BRsnwar and addressed to the Earl of l1Za,3Y, has just been published by Messrs. LowGmaw and Co., and is well worthy the reading. It is dated March 10th, 1854. The writer, after showing that out of fifty-five sacks, the produce of four acres of land, he had in fact no loss at all from disease. He next proves that it is an epidemic of a feverish ...