Ih terms of requisition addressed to the Lord-Lieutenant a meeting of the noblemen, freeholders, commissioners of supply, and justices of the peac« for the county, was held in the County Hall, Forfar, on Tuesday last, the 4th instant, to take into consideration the report of the

(From the Shipping Gazette of Friday.) The most singular feature connected with the corn trade is the extent of the supplies of barley brought forward by farmers since harvest. We scarcely recollect a season in any former year when general opinion was more strongly expressed on

proved to be composed of arsenite copper. A child in Paris attempted to make pictures with the colours of a paint-box, and, as is quite common, effected this by moistening the end of the cake in his mouth. It was shortly after seized with all the symptoms of poisoning, from whic

Railway communication is rapidly advancing to something like an uninterrupted connection in this district of the country ; and we have great pleasure in referring to the opening of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway from Edinburgh on to Cupar, within about eleven miles of Dundee

DUNDEE. TRADE REPORT. There has been no change of any importance in the state of our markets during the past eight days. The recent accounts from England of numerous and extensive failures in the mercantile world, have, might be expected, had the effect of throwing a gloom over

FREE PRESBYTERY FORFAR. THE CASE OF MR JAMES HOGG, TEACHER OF THE FREE SOUTH CHURCH KIRRIEMUIR. The Free Presbytery met in the Session House of the Free Church (Rev. Mr Clugston's), on Wednesday last. The Rev. Edgar, Moderator. After the Court had been constituted. The Rev. Thom

A.mbrican Indkpkndkvck. —In a certain burgh on the banks the Clyde, a ball was held in hononr of the Queen's visit, on the evening of the day when her Majesty inspected 1 Dumbarton. A body of officers from the United States frigate were invited to share in the festivities; one o

The daily anxiety regarding failures has been fulfilled this morning to a more distressing extent than we have yet to record. The house of Reid, Irving & Co. has suspended, and the liabilities are estimated at £1,500,000, the amount of acceptances alone being upwards of £900,000

the 23d instant, Mrs Ritchie, of a daughter. At Iloninjrhara Hall, Norfolk, on the instant, the Right Hon. Lady Bayning, of a son. At Braehead, Kirkaldy, on the 17th instant, the wife of the Rev. James Black, of a daughter. At Edinburgh, on the 23d inst., Alexander Hunter, Esq.,

believe that, notwithstanding the Notices which have already been issued, some misapprehension exists with respect to the transmission of Letters. and especially Newspapers, addressed to Germany, the Postmaster General considers it necessary to call particular attention to the f