... HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIE TY. Tar adjourned general meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday, in the Museum, at one o'clock-the Dake of Athole presiding. There was a considerable attendance. VETERINARY SURGERY. Professor Syme said he wished to supply an omission in his motion at the former meeting. He begged leave to move, that a copy of the resolution passed at last meeting ...

... ABERDEEN COLPORTEUR AND BOOK AGENT S 0 0 I E T Y. This Second Annual Meeting of this body was seld in the County Rooms on Monday evening. The attendance was highly respectable, and the chair was occupied by Mr Dyes Nicol of Ballogie. The Rev. Dr Davidson having offered up a most appropriate prayer, The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings in a very interest- ing address. We can only give the ...

... THE public will have an opportunity, on Saturday, of doing their best, in one effort more, to avert the r shameful injustice which seems about to be inflicted upon them. A meeting of the citizens is to be held on that day, at 3 o'clock; and we have little doubt i it will be such an one as at least will show the deelpo sense which they entertain of the threatened injury. f They have no means ...

... l: - -j f Tun opinions expressed in the British Parliament were . scarcely uttered when a Pamphlet made its appearance in Paris which was calculated to increase still more the apprehensions of war. This publication is 'all but avowedly from the pen of the Emperor himself, and is . an exposition of the principles on which he seems dis- posed to assume the position of the champion of Itaian E ...

... Tan first annual meeting of the sbarsholders of this Com- pany was beld within the Music Hall Buildings, on Monday. The Lord Provost, the Chairman of the Direotors, pre- sided; and there was a considerable attendance. MrKENNEDY, Joint-Secretary, read the advertisement calling the meeting, and afterwards the following Report - The Direotors herewith lay before the Shareholders the Ba. lance ...

... h Saturday, Feb. 12. The first meeting of this Board after the election was held this day. Present - Messrs Urquhart, Stevens, Campbell, YIronside, Morison, Stephen,, Sangster, Leslie, Watson, it Lumsden, Orombie, 'agill, Gildawie;,'Macandrew, Tres- i 3 suier' RoES, Buyers, Gordon, Berry, I. Fras6r,-M.'llardy, y and Greig. ., The Inspector having read minutes of election of mem- bers by the ...

... IN a short time now, this question, on which the public are waiting so quietly and patiently for the intentions of the Government, will be a subject of universal anxiety. All the present quiescence will disappear, as soon as the Government Bill is laid on the table, and the contest commences between Constitutionalists and Radical reformers. It is said the Government Bill is prepared and ready ...

... cc HOUSE OF L'OR DS, THE fourth Session of the fifth Parliament of the existing fri reign was, on Thursday afternoon, lopened by the Queen in 81 person. Else House was crowded lon before the cannon toI announced the arrival of. the Queen. Peers and Peeressee wso thronged the floor and body of the House, while scoarsely a it vacant seat Was to he found in the galleries. Thle diploma- F. tie ...

... THE COLLEGES. DECISION OF THE COMMISSIONERS, Ws are enabled to lay before the public the resolutions of e the Universities' Commissioners, substantially adopted at l their meeting on Saturday, 29th ult., at a fall meeting, and X adjusted at another meeting held on Friday, 4th inst. The s document is as follows:- The Commissioners having fully considered the provisions of the Statute 21 and 22 ...

... Ta N The Rev. Dr Leishman, ~Moderator of the General As- ha sembly, and the Rev. Dr Fowler, Convener of the Colonial : Committee of the Church of Scotland, had an interview with en. General Peel at the War Office, ated with Sir Edward Bulwer lie Lytton at the Colonial Office, Downing Street, on Tuesday fix last. Bc A spirited discussion took place in the Presbytery of ;Edinburgh on Wednesday, ...

... The London journals announce the death of Lady Geor- gians Forbes, at Brighton. Her Ladyship was the youngest daughterof William, sixth Marquis of Lothian, K.T., by Harriet, daughter of Henry, third Duke of Buclench, and married in July, 154=9, the Rev. Granvie Hamilton Forbes, rector of Broughton, North Hants. A deputation from the distillers, brewers, and licensed victuallers of Scotland, ...

... To the EDITOR of the ABERDoEN JOURNAL. SiR,-I was not a little surprised to find in your last paper, unier the above heading, a person who signs himsclf Ai. N., gravely advocating, without acknowledgment, a plan which, so far as I am aware, originated with the successful competitor for Lord Haddo's Essay Prize. The plan is neither more nor less than this, that farm servants should henceforth ...