being ths worst, has become perhaps the best supplied town with water in Scotland ; and, considering the long and loud complaints used to hear of the injury suffered by -the inhabitants from the want of this prime necessary life, expected to sea before this some means adopted fo

Mysterious Death.—lt is this week our painful duty to report one of the most extraordinary deaths that has ever come under our notice. On the evening of Thursday last, Alexander Ogilvy, who has for some time past been ' with his grandfather, Mr Ogilvy, farmer, Chapelhill, near t

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In our recent remarks upon the newly discovered anaesthetic agent, we considered its properties merely in relation to cases of midwifery and surgery; and we did what we could to remove some very absurd and groundless prejudices whieh have already been manifested against its appl

DUNDEE SHIPPING LIST. January 19.— Winds, a.m.. Variable—p.wu, N.W. Arrived—George Duncan, Deadrick. Hull, goods; .Tnno. ill, Aberdeeu, goods; Patriot, Kroft, Rostock, wheat; P»oi:nty, Finnie, Wemvss, coals; Nelly aud Kitty, Hogg, Alloa, coals. Sailed—Guthries, Crammond, Aberdee

HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, June 26. Earl Grey gave notice that he would, next day. move for the production of some documents from the West India colonies, and would upon that occasion, advert to what has recently taken place upon the subject in the House of Commons. The Certi6cate

Monday, June.26. There was renewal of the personal about >by the Colonial Office tie despatch fnwn the est ndies but the end acrimonious debate the matter remained justJi9 it was, Lord G. Bentinck having re. iterated his charge, and retracted nothing. The adjourned • Ihe Sugar B

Courier. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1848 The following announcement, in reference to her Mfyesty's contemplated visit to Scotland, appears in the Daily News of Monday :—" A Portsmouth correspondent says that orders have been given for the Royal yacht to be ready to sail for Dundee on

It was said by one of the greatest statesmen that ever lived that " the physician of the State, who, not satisfied with the cure of distempers, undertakes to regenerate constitutions, ought to show uncommon powers." France has been lately in the hands of the State Doctors, and i

( From the London Journals Moudny.) FRANCE. Paris remains perfectly tranquil, says the Times, at the departure of our express at noon yesterday (Sunday). Arrests continue to take place hourly of persons compromised by the late conspiracy and insurrection. On Friday 18 men, the w