SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, UAL TIONISTS. Tee pony Protectionists ►ave arrived at a pretty mute. The Erma majority of them dare no more speak disrespectfully of Sir Robert Peel and his measures than they dare to utter high treason There has been much bluster and a considerable calling

Pens see there ham been no public question disgusted of late, on which such a mass of gross mierepresenta- Von gone forth, u that of the " Clearances," as they are termed, In the Highluds. The distress and wretebedneras ascribed to these clearances may very poulbly, in some inst

AISROATII Sin,—.A libellous Pamphlet entitled, "Statement regarding late proem-dings of the Directors of Arbroath Academy, and of reasons for forming a new Educational Institotlon." lately made Its appearanre here. I have perused it, and, certainly, If bold assertions rani Jennie

%Titbit' the suet Asurt their A, the "tethering Andes. that yne the gten. I'u/et the eves the the serif*. That ChM the d mew 'TN then the thhthe WhMh hied the entries trio!. As Icy '.ands glee trey the or rtlng. to watch the parting ea the hill, Nov mettlag the ant New en the Ki

PAN LES. Forfarshire & Pertlnbire Dundee See los. Co Dundee Marine ins. Co 10 0 o'7 1000 15 0 0 ... 200... 10 0 010 ... 10 0 05 ... 1 0 010 015 210 0 5 ... RAILWAYS. Aberdeen D D r u n o d erNaLd Stock)r br tit 2. 2 7 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 6 Arbroath and Forfar__ 25 0 03 ... Dit

Manch ester, Aru. 'JJJ. — -The state of the weather here for the last three days has been such as to relieve the minds of all who have for so long a period entertained serious ap- prehensions as to the fate of the crops. On Monday, though rather hazy, there was considerable suns

Friday Evening. Tea was rather firmer to-day. West India Produce. — Sugar was not so freely pur- chased. Sales, 60 hhds. &c, at 6d. to Is. decline ; refined standard lumps were 665. 6d. to 675. per cwt. Coffee was dull. East India Produce.— 3o7o bags Mauritius sugar sold at 6d.

FRIDAY, Aug. 29, 12, Abingdon-street, Westminster. The Lord Ohanoellor bas been pleased to appoint Dr. James Cowles Prichard, of Bristol, a Physician, to be one of the Medical Commissioners in Lunacy, uuder the act of 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 100, in tbe place of Dr. Henry Her- be

I : _ Conversion.-The Abb6 Chardavoisa, of La Roclhelle, has embraced Protestanlism. There is an old fellow, namd William Millsf ?? derry, hale and hearty, though his ago is upwards of a cen- tury. Ile is living happily with his eight/A wife. A company is about to be ctablished a

#PROPOSED TRANSFER OF THEIR POWERS TO THE CORPORATION. On "Wednesday, meeting of the commissioners of police for the township of Hulme, was held at the towns'offices. Great Jackson-street, convened the following notice:—"Notice hereby given, that we, the under signed, being five