... rog ke TIE WiORKS OF CHARLES WATERTON. ad We extract the following from an able review of theworks of a- Charles Waterton, the eminent naturalist, in the National re Review for October, published by Chapman & Hall, Lon- ,w don:- a No man perhals has ever lived more completely in this sort :a- of interest [the study of nature] than Mr. Waterton. We all oh know how, after his return from ...

... THE SANIfARY CONDITION OF GLASGOW. ?? -r1 -r Mrh CHEMICAL NUISANCES. cc THE WATER~ WE DRINK: THE AIR WE sHEATUE. hi To tle Editor of the Glasgow Herald. re Sai,-I am induced to trouble you with a few remarks in T reference to a subject of vital interest to the citizens of Glasgow, tb and which, I think, has been regarded under too partial a view rid by many ?? have taken it in hand. Pt It is ...

... =A~3T-DAY TUOUG S N ?? PAST-DAY THOUGirrs ON INDIA. (From the Times.) There can be no doubt that the object for which we ought to consider ourselves to hold India is the future Christianity and tivilisation of the people. It will be said this is aiming high, and so it is, but until it is proved that this result is impossible we muit aim at it; as a Christian nation we have no other alternative ...

... 0 o MUNICIPAL ELECriONw.-The all-engrossing topic of our 0 burgh is at present-tbe approaching election of members of 0 Town Councli. There elections turn, not so much on the inte- e rests of the burgh itself, as upon the political opinions of the 0 candidates; so that Conservativy and Liberal must support their O respective nominees, however incompetent these may be. This o year, there are ...

... RECRUITING REFORDI. (From the Spectator.) Recruiting has to labour under a difficulty which it has not encountered at former periods. In the good old times, when the recruiting-sergeant sounded his fife and drum, and told the noble Englishman that in fighting for his Kcing and country he might rise to be a general, he was believed. Whenl he dwelt upon the glorious freedom of the service, ...

... eS JJAA ADisc U r1 'IU X L DA 1VLIA A * A V. DX., er GLASGOW SHERIFF COURT, MONDAY. in JOHN MARTIN JIOWAN, engineer and ironfounder, was ex-- r mined before Sheriff Bell, this day. Present-Ilr. Andrew or MacEwan, trustee, and Air. Anderson lKirkwood, law agent on te the estate. The bankrupt, on being sworn and examined by tyMr. Kirkwood, deponed-I began my present business in the ar year 1844. ...

... (From the Speetator.) The panic which was thought to have been conjured away in the United States has revived, and it is ascribed to various causes. Among them, it is im- puted to want of confidence. This idea seems to be principally suggested by the fact that all parts of the union are really rich either in accumulated wealth, or in produce, or in productive power. Credit has been expanded ...

... The annual election of a Bailis and Town Couneillors took w a place on Tuesday the 6th instant. Bailie Baird and leo. Mackay & iswere the two candidates for the office of Bailie. In matters of tli ithis kind an excitement and interest prevail in Pollokshaws, se and are maintained with a party zeal shown nowhere else in ktt Dthis country; and the anxiety and fervour exhibited by the bh 8; ...

... A correspondent of the Sun with great reason thus attacks this new word:- I hope you will join the crusade against the use of the new word 'telegram.' It comes to us from the Foreign Office, I believe. Certainly, no Englishman at all aware of the mode in which English words are derived froua the Gieek language could have invented such a word. If it should be adopted, half of our language will ...

... THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA-WHAT IS IT? (Fromn the Examiner.) ml.w1 ?? - s - The territorial government of the East India Com- i pany, after lasting in various shapes for a hundred i years, has ended in a mighty rebellion destined to be l an epoob, not in the history of England alone, but in I that of mankind. We expected an euthanasia for this I anomalous, antiquated, and effete institution, but ...

... it ~~GLASGOW SHEarerI COURT, OCT. 8. Yesterday, the adjourned examination of John Lamb, hank- ruipt, wae resumed in Sheriff Steele's chambers. Deponed- I wae in stati,,g at last diet that the Indian corn mentioned in folos 9 ad 9 o th jorna wee ale to Berry, Heniderson ?? &Co. he etris wee mae inJanary, 1852, and at this diaan peio I idno reolectthirproper nature. Those two pacel wee cnsinedby ...

... UENERAL POST-OFFICE-PACKEIT BOATS. UhlSEHAL, ?? -r OCTOBER 7. * DeslinatlOns. SO11THArSPO1l STATION Portugal, Spain, and Gibraltar ?? J (hibaltar, MalItta, Egypt, llaur tluo, Ceylon, tulle, te- sMog, Singapore, I add China ?? Brith.Colonlesln W. Indies (expt. lion- durao & Banmh ae), Foreign Colonies, &c.in West Indies (except Havana), California, Venle. zulde, Now Gra- nada, Chill, and Pore, ...