... AGRICtILTURAL SUMMARV FOR THE QUARTElR. (Froin thle Journal of Agricuilture for October, publishied by a Blackwood,)8 Thle promise held out by the appewarance and state of for- wardness (if the crops in the mnonth of June have been amply f,'lfilkdt. The warin forcing weather we had in that mronth wa Suee-dedl in the beginning of July by cold and rain, t whlichi for a time threatened to check ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. 'The British and North American Royal Mail steani ship Asia, Captain Lott, arrived in Liverpool to-day from Hali- fax and Boston, which latter city she sailed from on Wed- iesday the 22d ult. She has brought Boston papars to the date mentioned, and New York jonanals to the 21st. The Asia bad a fine as well as a rapid run, and has brought 79 passetigers, besides the usual ...

... (From the Tines' Correspondence.) Simla, Himalyas, Aug. 28. Ten days of incessant rain, ten days of existence in IL vast eloud which lapped in its embraces the ranges of the lower Iinalyas, which insisted on coming to bed with one niightly, and of rising with one in the morning, and got into one's shirts, boots, socks. clothes, damped the fire and the spirits, rusted one's penknife, filled the ...

... PROPOSED INCREASE OF POLTOE PAY. *i~ A- -r-w ; f AA n . - ~d 1 -a ?? ?? -- . A_ I ?? ?? ?? yr r -tPuj. eYr. The special coimittee appointed to consider Col. Kinlochw8 suggestions, reported unallimlously that in order to place the force in an efficient state, it was necessary that, instead of six grades of constables, as at present, there should be only fou r. Of these, the first, or merit ...

... | LETTERS FROM LOWER BE GAL. : E , _- ?? . - - I . _ . c,_- (From the Times' Special Carrsspeiideut, late in China.) o Hbirch (Zillab Baraset), March 2l, wh The national enemy of the East India Company baa beest imc from time whereof the memory of the civil service runnedb : not to the contrary, the uncovenanted Anglo-.Saxon. We 1,im could wvisli that the number should not ex'eed'five or six, ...

... THE SEWING MfACHINE IN GLASGOW, AND ITS EFFECTS ON PRODUOCTION, PRICES, AND WAGES. it Dr. Strang read the following paper, inl the Statistical Section, on Sat urday last : l1 Thie Use Of sew~ing muaChineS throughout Europe and America, during the last few years 1, ha soese osc an extent as not Only to hattract the attention of thed mechanist towards their improvement, hot likewise thle t ...

... SE('ESSION FROM TIHE FREE C-HUTJRCH IN V LUSOTiESAY. A ?? espondent, known to us, sends and requests inser- tion c-.o the following &S-ral paragraphs having appearedl i different news- ipajhioi respecting the recenit secession fromin the Free ?? iii Rothesay, but not conveying an intel'ligible account of that movement, the followving statement is sohnittedl -s giving a vilinoos of the wvhole ...

... . * . W~~A N a sA_ ?? f17I.1 L-l ---A ?? On Thursday afternoon Mr. Wakley held an inquest at Middlesex Hospital, on the body of a young man named David Thomas Bowden, the head porter in the establishment of Mr. Edwards, silk niercer, of 8 and 9 Soho Square, who, on the morning of Sunday last, threw himself from a parapet on the top of his employer's house into the yard beneath, a distance ...

... LETTEIR FRO1I\ A. SOLDIER IN THE 7TH HUSSARS I TO HIS PARENTS IN GLASGONV. . ?? Sir H. Grant's Column, g Camip Fyzabad, 10th Aug., 1858. a Mjy clear Father aud Mother,-I feel the greatest pleasure is iII being able once miore to answver your kind and .affectionate n |letter, which I received on the mornillg of the 7th instant. ls It gave mle great pleasure to learn from it that you were all ti ...

... d This meetingcame offyesterday ?? Race Course; fc L- and certainly this was the best trotting meeting-ever held in 11 Scotland. There was a very large attendance of spectators e (averaging 10,000) on the ground. The first race was ce tlookedtoas beingthe eventoftheday. Dawfromthefirstwas af tthe favourite, and Old Sir William was second, and in some d quarters believed to win. Lady Godivawas ...

... 5 1 ml - d _- -- I ?? - , 1. . -- . I _ The Emperor Alexander on Ihis journey to Warsawv had to pass through the guvernmnoets-of Tver, Kostrorna,Jaros- lav, Nijnii-Novgorod, Vladimir, and Moscow. In most of these his Majesty addressed the representatives of the nobility, speaking chiefly of the topic of the day, the situa- tion of the peasant class. Tir liloscowcorrespondenit of the Neod ...

... ELOPEMENT OF At JEwgss.-Quite a commotion has been produced amongst the Jewish community in this sity, in consequence of the elopement of Miss Ger- trude Isaacs, of Pritchard Street, Portland Square, who on Tuesday quitted the maternal roof for the purpose of ullitillg herself in merriage with a member of a Christian faimily, Mr. Edward Taylor. Miss Isaacs left her homue at about half-past ...