... To the EDITOR of the AuERDuIn T JOUhNAL. 0 __ at Sir,-A Sntill Farmner has thought it worth while C to write a letter to inform your readers, and especially your D Ythanside Correspondent, (1) that ' five, and five and a si half bushels of seed are more common than seven bushels it to the acre and (2) that ' a mall that ean sew with both Si hands will do four times more sowing ( sic ), in ...

... WE observe that the Commissioners of Police have issued F 1otices for Contract No. 13 of their Sewerage Works, comr. prehending a very populous part of the town, and one most, I perhaps, in want of sewerage-the eastern district, includ- I ing East North Street and closes, and the surrounding t locality. There are twenty-three sewers in one of the notices, and nine in another; and the works ...

... it. --stituto ISO A WOMAN As AMBASSAOO rRoM AMEaRicA.-Accordilig to Mr Ia Wash'ington telogrom to the Yew York Tribune thers is some Ai th proabaility or Mrv Adams boitigsucceeded by a female diplo- toth ~81 matist, The telegram says:- M~rs Frances Lord Bond is the 11- nams of a woman who aspires to represent the Unitcd States cordis -ta Government at; the Court of St James's. She has besn ...

... To thse EDITOR of the ABERDEEllN JOURNAL. '~I MOST give you my political creed. In the first place, it is 0,queer that the Whigs, all thle times the.Y were in power, from 'dthle passing Of the Reform Bill, in 1832, downward to their IS overthrow by the Adullamnite faction, never thought of making one single movement in the direction of the Irish L2 Church question, or saw the necoessity of it, ...

... -To the EDITOR Of the ABIRDERN JOURNTAL. Sbra-! see that several letters liave appeardole ini your paper regarding the planting bf potatoes-'a ordpa'hivhel 'has now become very precarious. As no notice has 'been taken of one important point in connection with~thiesub. ~ ject, viz, depth of pfantingi-I send you a note of some re- iiarks on this. point by different, writers, who have p)aid aIt- ...

... The estate and barony of R;tlio has hsee purchased by John Dougal, Esq. of Glenferuess, for £55,600. PRESBYTEUY OF ITnI0oALDY.-At a meeting of this Pres- bytery oln Wednesday list, it was resolved to accept a decree presented to the Court by a deputation from Lochgelly, for the erectiomn and disjunction of the church there into a paisel quoad sacra. Mr Reid, the pastor of the church, is sow in ...

... Ing FRANCE. PARIS, Thureday.-An article in the Constitutiennel, signed N n.by M. Llmayrackc, refutee the statemoents of thoeejourne-le which me, -.consider war inevitable because France has taken all necessary Ion, measures to wage itwifh succeee. It eays :- Themore France cba is armed, the lese ie the probability of war. An equilibrium of tori armed forces in the world is a guarantee of ...

... Pft WD AApril 29, o186ai8. WEDNESDAY, AprU 29, 1868. __ - tb CHURCH RATES. THE, Church Rate Abolition Bill passed the second Cl reading in the Lords oln Thursday. It was not op- Pi posed by the Government, but was proposed to be re-h mitted to a Select Committee. let TIE LANCASHIRE RIOTS, Di The state of the mining districts of Lancashire was el brought before both Houses, ill consequence of ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-Wednesday, April 1. -i r , . THR LIVEL' BILU i t Sir C. O'LOGHLEN moved the second reading of the Libel Bill. Sir R. CLLIER said he should not raise a discussion upon the bill at this stage; but there was one clause in it which made a speaker liable for every word he uttered in a speech, as if he had committed it to writing. In Committee he should move that that clause be ...

... Monday, April 20. A QUARTERLY MEETING of the Pollee Board was held to-day -the Lord Provost presiding. PRESENT-Baillie Shinres ; the Dean of Guild; the To I City Treasurer; Messrs Knight, Ironside. Donald- son, Inglis, Mearns, Mitchell, Dfubs, Urquhart,, May Airth, Yule, Garvie, Daniel, Gray, Rose, Smith, thIs also, Mr Walker, Law Agent; Mr Anderson, Sur- and si veyor; and Mr Csrnickshank, ...

... A GRICULTURE. YTHANSIDE, 3d April.-The complete contrast between the seed-time of last year and that of the present has been' 'a subject of general: remark during the ,past two weeks. Last year gave us perhaps the worst and thelatest'seedjtim that has been experienced by the present 'generatioi ;- this season has given us, if not the best, at least one of the best, and certainly the eirliest ...

... i. - dA CASE of considerable importance and interest to Volun- teer officers and to Volunteers, was decided by the Sheriff- , Substitute, on Wdidnesday week. The commanding officer , of the 6th A.A.V. presented a complaint in the form pro- vided by the Summary Procedure Act, setting forth that s John Christie had contravened the provisions of the Vo- lunteer Act, 1863, inasmuch as, having ...