... THE BIOGIRAP11ICAL DICTIONARY Ol EMINENT SCOTSMEN. ?? this title we published in our last number a letter fromn Mr Robert Chambers, i: gentleman of universal ?? in periodical literature, of great scientific attainments, and in personal worth nut surpassed It is indeed a singular and startling cornmunication With reference to the ,work which bears the above title. It ias been our duty to ...

... LATEST NEWS, (BY ELECTRIG TELEGRAPH.) - ?? AMERICA. Liverpool, Sunday. T The Asia steamer has arrived from New York, bring- inzg 1,086,000 dollars in. specie. COESStWMCtAL iutW8. ?a New York, Sept. 5. Cotton-Since receipt of the Pecific's advices, the market bha been unsettled, and transactions almost suspended. The receipts of cotton this year at New Orleans and other ports are abont S33,000 ...

... ce, :ed cet Iff- Ad- dy be aw so ce, its aw .en mn- his ied rug in- rse hut ry, yve ae- rn- in ng A Poultry Association having, in accordance with a generally- expressed wish, been formed at Ellon, the first exhibition in con- nection with it took place at the New Inn, on tbe .12th current. Tbe shsow, both as regarded extent and excellene,' fully equalled *the. exectatien of its originators; ...

... fI SCEL LE LLE H UDS. Tim PoLas.-Prince Czartoryski has written an address to the Poles, advising them to remain quiet. He says:- Pre- serve in every part of our country your now prudent and calm attitude; wait for events; it is the advice given v ou by all the sincere friends of Poland. The patient tranqaillity which at present. reigns in Poland proceeds not from inanition, or from death; it ...

... -FREE E PRESBYTERY OF ABERDEEN. The usual monthly meeting of 'this rev. body was held yes- S.i te ,Professor Fairbairn, Moderator. I , :. U SSXNTlATION JUXID. Y ''Mr ADiU reported anent the Sustentation Fund, that there e,' had been a total decrease for the year ended 15th August of 'e £480, but an increase in. the Presbytery of £17. He then .ldriw attention to resolutions agreed'to by the ...

... (From the Dumfries Courier.) A meeting of the commissioners of supply and landholders of the county of Afigtown and others interested, called by the convener in compliance with a requisition from a number of landholders and others, to take into consideration 8 proposal to form a railway from Dumfries by Wigtown aind Stranraer to Portpatrick, was held at Gleniluce on ThPursday last. There were ...

... RIYoRNG, StMBER8. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8. Arnaud gave his instructions on the 25th August, and the troops would be moved to the Crimea without delay. September 1st was the day appointed. The cholera was subsiding among the afflicted forces, and altogether the news from the seat of war in the South may be regarded as favourable. We re- fuse all theories as to the means by which the war ...

... LOSS OF TIlE MIrNERVA. -sn>Aw; I~ 11 -1 - r.. - - ?? 1 1. _ I o rtal The following statement by Alr. Robert F. Denbian, of Cork, he cabin passenger by the Minerva, appears in the Liveip)oul lIcr- lie cry oi Flriday:- lit 1' We left Liverpool about a quarrter to 2 o'clock, with a very or eavy cargo, and I should say, over 100 passongers. It Was a lovely day tnp to about 6 o'clock in the ...

... DIR. CAIPID ON MANURE. ALIC. UAL1UI UIN l121UlltJ~l).! r.. Caird of Baldoon, in a letter to tile Timtes on the im- portant subject of manuring land, gives the following as the rcsult of his most recent experiments I take the opportunity of sending the result of some experi- mnets made by mc this season at Baldoon onl tbe application of malure to wheat, and il continuation of similar onees made ...

... -- N -- .. L A D. A Relic of a* DlaI. -In making some excavations in the court- yard of a house in ith itle ?? tilh ooier day, sone Vor:lmillCI discoverd ea piece of an old and large sword, on which Nvere the letters etnour. As it was near thlis spot that tile ])nikes dc B1aufort anid de Nemovirs, and, according to thle ?? of the time, four friends of ceacil, fouglit a duel on the 30th ...

... FR1OM 'l'1E LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. TlIAlti(SGIVING FtOR Tl: 1TE ARVEST. a At tile Court fit Itickinghltill Pahlce, thel 1 3thl daiy of September, IS51. t'resei(t, ?? qtli'S Meeost ?? MIijesty In Council. t It i0. this day wrilhred by her Mlejesty in Counclil that bis Grace the t ArIchl ishe o f Caeteo timrv do prepare a form of prayer and thtinks- n1 gi % l.> to Almlighty Gild ior tile ...

... TREATMENT OF MILOLERA BY CASTOR OIL. The following letter, 'on thle now ?? of chiolera by Sj -castor oil inl Kung's, College Hospital, has been addressed by st 1)-. G~eorge Johnson to the editor of the Medical Times mid Si I' Gazette. We, are glad to observe by the numtber of' letters Iii ~'which we receive onl titls at present all-engross-ing subject, that ft -this rational systemt oft' ...