... AGL{ICUI1'URE & GARDENING. SOLDIERS' GARDENS.-In the late encampment at ft Chalons, which has been broken up during the past week, ti we learn that the soldiers have been encouraged to rear al and cultivate vegetable gardens all around the camp, on a i w plan tried experimentally on a limited scale s'mo two r( years back. So successful have the preseut arrangements proved that they are to be ...

... 1 ' - A. - - q 1 . 1 By Larthe finest and anost elective peiformance of the English Juggernaut that has yet taken place, has just Wonie off upon. one of the principal Scottish rail- ways. ?? 'have: had inst&nes dof fast trains running into slow ...

... THE COTTON FAMINE AND THE I DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRB. A public meeting was held at l Huddersfield, on Tues- day night, for the purpose of devising measures for the re- lief of the distress in the cotton districts. A public meeting was held at Belfast, on Tuesday, for the purpose of adopting measures for assisting in the work of alleviating the distress which exists in the cotton manu- facturing ...

... IL- The remains of the late Earl of Ellesmere were interred on Saturday. * Gibson has sold his coloured Cupid for X1,500.-Court Journal. The Great Eeastern was advertised to leave New York f on the 1st inst. It is said that a community of French nuns intend re- siding at Cannington, Somersetshire. On the 18th inst a bronze statue of Schiller is to be | inaugurated at Maunheim, c The Royal ...

... |. TEE AMERICAN WAR. I - . . - . - The American civil war has just taken one of those N. turns which baffle the calculations of the most astute - politicians. After quite a series of brilliant successes, VS the Confederates appear to have at length received a for very important check, and even Stonewall Jackson S is Raid to be in full retreat for Virginia We say , appear, because, as yet, ...

... | Belgrade, Monday.-Thc firran 0issued by the Porte was publicly road to-day. The demolition of the barri- cades has commenced. Sir Henry Bulwer has left Con- stantinoptle for Pesth. ?? . VA . ?? RUSSIA. A ukase of the Emperor, issued in connection with the great national celebration at Novgorod, stays the action of all sentences of confiscation pronounced against Poles from 1831 until the ...

... I CONTRACTSB FOR VACCITNATIONx.-Dr. Vincent Whit- greavo's contract for vaccinating was approved of by the Poor-law Board. The other contractors were objected to by that Board in consequence of their qualifications being deficient. The union accounts were reported to the Poor- law Board, by the treasurer, to be £279 3s. 9d. in arrears. This was caused by the great increase of expenditure o ...

... | :L~~ - - At one of the sectional meetings in connection Wifl ?? British Association, on Saturday, a paper was read by f Mr. Purdy, of the Poor-law Board, on the pauperism and mortality of Lancashire. The object of this paper was to ! direct attention to the connection of distress in Lancashire, l as indicated by the pauperism, with the mortality. During C the Inst 15 years the cotton ...

... FUNERAL OF THE R1EV. GEORGE MORLAND.-The in- terment of the remains of the Rev. George Morland, the respected incambent of St. John's, who died on Sunday last, at the advanced age of 71, after a ministration of up- wards of half a century in the town, 38 of which he had held the incumbency of St. John's, were interred in the Cemetery on Thursday. His remains were followed by an immense ...

... 11 RUSSIA. A decree of the governor-general of Wilna relieves the town and the ?? districts from a state of siege. Persons are still, however, forbidden to carry arms. State criminals are also to continue subject to military 'ridiction. INDIA AND CHINA. Shanghai, September 4. -General Ward's contingent hats extricated itself from its perilous position, since which rebels have made a fierce ...

... THE COTTON FAMINE AND THE' DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE, The Bishop of Exeter has invited his clergy to make a collection in aid of the sufferers in Lancashire and Cheshire, The parochial collections in the diocese of Peterborough, in aid of the Lancashire and Cheshire Operatives' Fund, have reached nearly £1,000. The efforts of the ladies of Birmingham to obtain con- tributions of clothing for the ...

... The Boletin, de Loterias (a Madrid journal) announces that the Emperor of the French has given permission for a bull fight in Paris this month, and that Antonio Sanchez (El Tato) has been engraged for the occasion. On Monday, the new Roman Catholio church of St. t l Boniface, situate in Union-street, Whitechapel, London, X l was opened in accordance with the forms incidental to f I snch a ...