A meeting of the Town Council was held on Thursday. Presen —Provost Brown; Bailie Moyes ; Messrs Alex. Easson, Edward Urquhart, Alexander Low, Charles Smith, Alexander Moncur, George H. Newall, P. 11. Thorns, James Webster, William Harris, and John Kennedy. The Provost occupied

The lecture-room o£ (he Royal Institution was a fortnight ago completely.crowded, S3 it was generally under" stood that Professor Faraday would mention the results o* some important experiments which he has been recently engaged, for liquifying and solidifying gases that had hit

of the 20th ultimo, claiming for the " Nons," exclusively, the title of Free Church of Scotland " Free Secession Church. —This favourite phrase with some newspapers, the Edinburgh Courant; and with some clergymen, the Rev. Dr Muir. Where they have got it, or what authority they

correspondent in the Warder of the 20th ultimo furnishes table of particulars of thirty of the failures which took place in the Dundee trade in 1836 and 1837 and then makes some remarks on the system of Scotch Banking, as exemplified in Dundee, which we observe have been since c

We copy from the Perth Courier the following very judicious abstract of the proposed Poor Law for Scotland :— • New Poor-Law for Scotland.—We have given below an abstract of the leading provisions of this important bill, which has just been published. So far as we can at present

on the 30th April, Mrs Shan , daughter. , At 38, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh, on the 2/tn i •, the Lady of Alexander Stewart, Esq. of Glencripsdaic, daughter. At North Methven Street, Perth, on the 30th April, - A. R. Wilson, of a son. At Gresford, on the 24th April, by the

( From the Britannia■) It is many months since we heard anything of this lady. She was then represented to be languishing under an incurable distemper of some undiscovered and able kind. We lamented ber illness in common with every one else acquainted wi f her ingenious and clev

Is the Repeal agitation to ?0 on ? Is it be again watched till there are materiitlii for another batch of state trials, to end in another writ of error? All reflating peopie hI! parties »re of opinion that time the question was finally settled whether O'Connell or tbe Queen's Go

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, The monthly Overland Mail from India has arrived with advices from Calcutta to October 22, Bombay to November 1, and Hong Kong to September I, —the contents of which will be found in another column. Our last accounts from India mentioned an insurrection in

(From the Edinburgh Gazette.J SEQUESTRATION. December 3. John YYallace, grocer and victualler in Catrine. application for cessio bonorum. Thomas Wingate, Lieutenant in her Majesty's or Queen's royal regiment of foot, and presently residing at St Ann's Yards, Ilolyrood, Edinburgh