... I PIEwPARING A FAMINE. -,j From diffdrent parts of the country lettera ame being written to newspapers and agrioul. tural journals, complaainig sorely of the Increaing ravage. of insects. Some writers reply that this in only a juit and Inatural punishment of man for the' prolonged and systematid'destruction of small'blird, whioh do more to keep down the pliiie''of inssoti than can be ...

... Titsdeece, Messy 27. Tue Aesembly met at eleven O'clock-Dr Bisset, Mode- Li ratoi. .gr THE SOEWHTLLS CASE, to Dr Cook, St Andrews, gave in the report Of the commit- Al tee appointed by last Asseeibly on the Newhihle ease, and PR0 whiehlihe was instructed to report to this Assembly. The report re Istated that the Comnoittee, immiediately after their appoint- di mnent, communiested an extroet of ...

... Ho usE OF COMMONS-Tusdaeoy, Ma 27. SALMION FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. The louse went into Committee upon the bill.I On elAIIOS 5, tho LORD ADVOCATE proposed ecu amendmentf geving authority to thle Secretary of'Sutet to appoint three Cons-t misineo ndC heAtCichofseol WBto roceive a salai-y v not totetoccd £3x0 comtteth igthn.gnteansoudeate th nDames of th gesle~e Sli~f h itede t POP se5 ...

... - ±AGE OF- TE CnY. a! i ' 8HEE$EU!2ING-w d1 Two sheep were raecenly killed, and the carcases fe8 | removedfron wof h; F;Temiant's lands, at Parks- t own.-0l1nelis Chronicle; n i- ATTACK ON A DWELLING711OUSE h ' * ' THREATENING LETTER.. ' h A few nights since while a farmner named Hayden e and his three sons *ere pleephag in their dwsiling * hduse, 'at Lower Bellingary, in this county, their e ...

... THE WARLIKE DEMONSTRATIONS IN AUSTRLA. 9L ' A letter from Venice says :-After a series of any reviews, which extended from the 9th to the l3th May, the -7 men were confined to barracks, and everything was prepared rla so that they might march on Lombardy at a moment's ces notice. To ' march on Lombardy,' was tile ' refrain' of the 2 garrisons of Nlaniua and Peschiera, and the exciting chorus ...

... INAUGURATION OF TIE Srt i(.E STATUE. I To-day, at noon, the monument to the iatc r Ji Sturge. erected at the Five Ways, will ?? The members of the committee, the Town Couri; the other invited guests, will assemble at tho (e . Room, Town Hall, at a quarter before twelve 0 zI0. at noon -1'Tisely wil jiroceed to the site. TVei forI bas been erected for the ?? the Mi;r b9qxough members, and the ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTEITN. -Reuter's Telegram per Etna, via Queenstown, New York, May 16.—The Great Eastern arrived early this morning. The great ship has thus made one of the quickest passages on record from any port in Great Britain to New York. FIRST PEMBROKESHIRE RIFLEs.-Saturday we k beinj the anniversayof Her Majesty's birth-day, it was kept as a holiday by all the Government ...

... ie At the Dover Police Court, the other day, John Collyer it applied for assistance to regain possession of his Bath chairr r- He said that, al three o'clock on the previous afternoon, an In g ordercarme to the chair stand for a gentleman to he take up E, *e from a street at tite back of St. Mary's Church; lie took the al w chair rountid, and found Dr. Standen upon the door steps wait- IN y ...

... -L ! -i8- I- -..jt& QifL_~O. -pi~ The following return, embodying a series of 32 qul Clot t lions , has been addressed, by order of the Royal &om- htt miasion appointed at the request of parliament, to tbe 17 commndig oficrs a' te Vluneerregiments in theca kigo.Tertr sacmaie by a circular from o ?? may be duly a Shduan ssona osil et back to the secre- i War~fice:- the I. What is the ...

... NATIONAL EXPEND.ITURE. The following motions and amendments stood fr d i- cussion in the House of Comontis yesterday eveUig:- so Mr. Stansfeld.-That in the opinionf of this house the 0i national expenditure is capable of reduction without compro. WI r mising the safety. the independence, or in fluence of the country. ament to Mr. Stanafeld's as Lord R. MontagU.-..As an amendetoM.Stned' ?? her ...

... n TSeodayd, May 27. Is THr General Assembly of the Free Church met again to- It' s day, at ton o'clook-The Rev. Dr Guthrie, Moderator, in REPORT ON VACANCIES IN TRE NEW COLLEGE, 0. Dr Beith gave in the report of the Committee on the t, Election of Professors. ;In The following were the returns from Presbyteries and P 8 Svnods of the persons recoomiended for the different a Er Cai - M t- For ...

... . MY FIRST TRIP, TO -IONDON ?? | RV OTR RAMBLMiG R'PO1t6l ER.I I. I anw iie late, By OMRR&MBI.ING Rl&PO6 tR.JI 'an'l ehir, ,aheld EL iDO SLTI ohifor' Away to t'~e north frbm thel famous Tower-of Londo'n Is PeO com, ofo eteatl ocued t0 pump, and the old 1Throe Nuns, a houseofettan i ment for man and beast; and such It was, too,. ln the days a r' le y of Defoe, and a great deal forther down In ...