PRANCE. The President of the Assembly gave a banquet on the 10th. Among the guests were the President of the Repubhc (quite again.) the Papal Nuncio, the Ministers the United States, Russia, Prussia, Austria. Turkey, and others; Count Mole the Count de Montalembert, Louis Luc,en

No. X. The nesrt. house I visited I found tenanted by an Irish weaver, his wife, aad foer children, the oldest whom was fourteen years of age, and had never entered a school door, nor did the poor child know a single letter the alphabet. This house, like the former, had coarse c

Despatches from Madrid, dated the 6th instant, give a new turn recent rumours—•' The Queen Isabella has recovered from her slight indisposition ; t| le hopes entertained from its supposed cause are not likely to he realized."

It will be seen from our report of the last meeting of the Town Council that this case has at length been settled by a compromise. Mr Caesar to get an addition to his stipend of £73 a-year, and a sum towards his expenses, while the legal stipend remains as before—£los. This arra

English stocks are quiet, but extremely firm. Railway Shares have been extremely heavy, and the fall in the old lines is 10s to XI, and in the case of the Midland £2. Foreign Grain.—At Amsterdam, last week, nothing particular was done in grain. Cloverseed had fair sale, and also

Nethergate. N.B—.A Choice Assortment of Jewellery, Faxct Goods, &c. Eligible dwelling house property FOR SALE. Upset Price, £700. There will be exposed to sale, by public roup, virtue of the powers contained in a Bond and Disposition in security, and with concurrence as after-me

MONTROSE. Awkward Mistake.—On Sunday forenoon, ia parish church not '¥) miles from the Cross, the precentor, previous to Divine service, did full justice to the reading of the proclamation barms; but, in this instance, to the no small astonishment of the parties concerned, the l

Kettivs, Ac.—The papers are sent as usual by the first train to Newtyle on the Wednesday morning, and the delay must either be owing to neglect there or the alteration of the post airangements. are reluctantly compelled to leave out the favours of some of our District Correspond

My Lord, have received your revised edition of r Ross' Pamphlet, and I have read your letter the 10th in the last Dundee Courier. From that letter concerned to observe that your Lordship's temper is getting somewhat ruffled. No one, not irritated, could have written that letter.

received, per George llutton, Lsq., accountant, £5 being legacy bequeathed to the charity the late Mr William Hutton, sometime merchant here.