ABUNDANCE AMERICA. (Excerpt from a letter by Elihu Burritt "D, ujlas Jerrold's Newspaper." It is not because the harvests of the world have put its inhabitants on short allowance, that bread in Ireland is a famine price and famine scarcity. The fields of the world have been white

. (From the Dublin Packet.) Plunder, in one form or other, seems to be the order the day. Under the pretext of destitution, where none exists, the most disgraceful scenes have been enacted in various parts of the country. In this respect the town and neighbourhood of l">rogheda

High Court of Justiciary.—Breach op Trust and Embezzlement.— Ronald Gordon, late secretary and accountant to the Exchange Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, was placed at the bar of the Court on Wednesday, charged with various acts of breach of trust and embezzlement, in far (1.) On t

Advance in the Bank Rate of Discounts.—Wo have nothing to add to show how entirely approve of the 9tep adopted by the Bank. If more were required, the arrival of the Cambria, from New York, furnished them. By this steamer the exchange on London comes low as 105 105J, at which bu

Dundee turreut —January 18. FLAX. £ j. £ s. £ s. £ s. Arch .Otbomy.s2 0(9 Memel,4Brnnd— o®— 0 Crown, 50 0-— Neust. No. 0' Do. Sort,.. 43 10 -44 0 Neust. No. 2,..— 0-— Pelersb. 12 hd.— 0 Konigsberg,do.— 0- 0 Do. 9do 41 -44 0 f>nwnPodolia,46 0 - Do. 6 do.. 0- 40 Crow.i Drunnn, 0-

J,°J U r lADn ' ITY OF PA CLEROV.— Some doubts having been entertained on the question ot parochial clergy's liability under the first mo<'» assessment (viz. lands and heritages) of the New Poor Law Hill, we are enabled to state that the case has been tried before the Sheriff-Su

Brakch Rait.WAS".—The Town Council, it will be seen from a previous report, are mightily tickled with the proposal, by the Aberdeen Railway Company, to erect passenger terminus in the vicinity of the Academy. Some the citizens will probably remember that, at the very first Publi

Highwaymen.—On Saturday evening, when Mr George veterinary surgeon, was riding home to Seaton of he was attacked by some ruffians at the northe st corner of Seaton woods—a very quiet and sequestered I'lace—one of whom seized the reins, and then demanded "'s money; accompanied wi

Twenty Lessons on British Mosses. 2(1 edition. By Mr VVm. Gardiner, Dundee, author of" Botanical Rambles Bremar," " Catalogue of British Mosses," " Catalogue of British Hepaticae/' &c., & c. It is only some eight months since we noticed at considerable length in our columns the

NIGHT ASYLUM for the HOUSELESS POOR of Dundee, and a consilerable sum of money was subscribed others for that purpose. The Superintendent of Police provided lodgings for those whom he considered deserving objects for some time, and the expenses thereof were defrayed out of the f