... - r MAR AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. Toils Association held their Spring Show of Balls, Seeds, and Roots at Monymus k, on Saturday last. The Scow vas rather limited in every department; its best feature being that of Short-iorn Bfalls, several of which were very su- perior. The Judges were-Messrs Walker, Hillside, Port- lthen; Pihilip, Boynds; and Wicyte, Ardcoonon. The fol- lowidg is the prize ...

... WtMNESDAY, February 5, 1862. AMERICAN CONTRACTS. ' TnE morality of American Governments has not stood ft high in public estimation for many years. We have S heard times without number of the corruption which tl tainted the whole atmosphere of public life, but it is is only now that we are beginning to see its full develop. ol meat, in the rascality which prevails in every depart- oi ment, at ...

... - ----- a - of HOUSE OF CON &ONS-lWednsaYaci, Febl. 19. ofQUALIFICATION FOR OFP5CEuS ABsOLITION BILL. Mr HADOIELD Moved the second rcadisg of the Qualification eid far Offices Abolition Bill. lbi Sir M1. ?ETO Seconded the motion. - Mr NEWDEGATE opposed tim bill, as introducing an imucces- sarV innovation, conceived lain aSpirit of hostility to tho Church of England, and moved that it be read a ...

... Yr DESTsNATION. Despatclsd. Box Coses. lie r, America--U.nitedStatesCalifornia, and British North America (by Every Friday. 1.45 o.M. 7s British Packet, via LiverpOol) . '5 Ditto-)by U.S. Packet, via South- Every Taeslay. 11iO A M. - am.pton) . Australia, Van Diemer,'s Land, 19th of every 11.50 AM. New South Wales, and Iau a month, d. ritius, via Sontlisption .f1.45 ...

... HOSPITAL FOR' IINCURABLES. 'ry lien Annual Meeting of the Managers and Subscribers tofo the Hosptal in Aberdeen for belhoof of Persons Labeuring tie undr9nerahle Diseases was field on Monday, in the Court- i ;a Huse-SeriffWatsen in the ehair. Among those pre- li a. ent were Baillie M'Hardy; the Dean of Guild; Mr David- on seon of Inehbmarlo ; Mr Cochran of Balfour ; Mr Yeats of Is- Auqiuharney ...

... [MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. - ----- 0- -- }IIS FLORDS-Thnirsday, Febiruary 6. The fourth session of the present Prarlianient was opened by bout Royal Commission ait two o'clock this dlay. Thu Royal Commissioners were the lordChneorthfuk and of Argyle, Earl St. Germaoine, Viscount Stanley, and Lord Stan- bean rlay of Aldlcrley. sI, ho In absence of H~er Mojesty, very little interest attached to tha an ...

... KINALDIE SALE OF SEORTHORN BULL AND io HEIFER CALVES. ON Thursday, Mr Milno of Kinaldie's Annual Sale of Short- to horn Bull and Heifer Calves took place at 1be farm stead- of ijg at Kinaldie, when there was a good attendance of breed- ero and farmers. Among those presont we observed Mr Adam of Ranna ; Mr Elnslie of Woodside; Mr Grant of d Druiniunor; Mr Sbirra Gibb of Colts; Mr Wernbam, fee- ...

... a. i. The Queen has presented the Rev. John W. Colman to I. the parish of Inch, in the Presbytery of Stranraer. r- The Rev. W. H. Carslaw was ordained on Thursday to [y the pastorate of the Free Church Congregation of Helens. 5. burgh. is The presentation of the Crown in favour of the Rev. Mr u Phin, of Galeohiels, to be minieter of the first ecarge of t, Soth Leith, hae been sustained by the ...

... T FRANCE. tour PARis, Thuirsday.-Thoe Pe sp publishes awtWarm panegyric on Her the British Constitution. it dietingrishfs three great epochs T which led to its present perfection. Tile straggle commenced fuirt with thle Stuarto, which ended hy the Parliamerne obtaining thle tror of repoden°e : the revoluioen which o-ated William Ill. oil toy hfrom o A abndirri tIle acceasion of Queen Victoria, ...

... I: Ld - - bei HOUSE OF COMMONS-Wedzeeeday, rob. 12. 9dui in s. The House met at eleven o'clock. me iy A number of private bills wore read a first time. A re The other business was purely formal, and the House adjourn- Mr ig ed at halt-past twelve o'clock. D as HOUSE OF LORDS-Thirsday, rl-cbruary 13. ecff it THlE EDUCATION MIINUTE. tuon to A great numier of petitions wvere presented, praying ...

... ENGLAND. Te e Crown Princess of Prussia will arrive at Osborne ..nrly thisw'eek. ThieKing of thieBelgians left Osborneoon Monday for the Continent. The removal of the late Prince Consort's choir from tho Side of Isis Royal o'ife' wee painfully noticed by the ocem-t pants ef the Hone of Lords eil the dpnieg of the Session ; nod tile, deep mourning assumed by tile lodies end otetris ...

... THE WAR IN AIMERICA. THERE is nothing very important from America, ex- cept the confirmation of the report of the Fcderal vic- tory at Somerset in Kentupky. The newspapers and public speakers dwell with complacency on the series of movements which are in progress, with the view of makiing a combined attack on the Confederates at seve. ral points simultaneously. The question, however, seems to ...