The Reverend W. R. Townsend lately published, the close of a new treatise of his, on ' Practical Agriculture,' a Farmer's Calendar, verse, which may be useful to the lovers of agriculture. In March, oat-sowing will be over— In April, barley and red clover ; Potatoes spoil the mo

KKI I-i Ami i,. (From the People's Journal.) . , con tinuance of moral education to the last, I As tor 1 - . ste cases, in close neighbourhood, which have seen two . nrettv plain, practical sense, me. I make ie " 4 living only the length of a street apart, f iir specimens of edu

THE LATE AND PRESENT GOVERNMENTS. (From the Morning Herald.) Sir Robert Peel has now fully and entirely accomplished one of the great objects for which the nation, sick and endangered by Whig quackery, " called him in ' in 1841. He has restored the national finances. The last tw

GENERAL TERMINUS.—AWARD OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. On Friday last (and within a day for issuing the Parliamentary notices of the bills for next session), tho decision of the Board of Trade, on the reference made to it by the Committees on the Railway Bills connected with Perth last

to the common printing press. It is said to be capable of printing between six and eight hundred impressions in an hour, by hand.

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NEW PREMISES, 24 Reform Street, will be OPENED this day. The Stock is large, has been carefully selected, and purchased on very advantageous terms, within the last ten days. It comprises every Useful and Fashionable Article for the Season, in Drapery, Silk Mercery, Hosiery, Habe

Blackwood's Magazine for April 1847 Commences with a long but interesting notice of Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, a work lately published in two volumes Bvo. former number we had an article entitled the " Cave of the Regicides, in which the Protector and his

(From the Perth Constitutional.) In our last articles, we brought the description of salmon ovum to No. 6, viz., to the state and appearance after being sixty-three days deposited in the spawning bed; and we now resume our observations by commencing at No. 7, Deposited seventy d

The recent discussion on sites exhibits the Government in a very pitiful point of view. When the Sites Bill brought in by Mr Fox Alaule last session was before the House, the leaders of the present Government expressed themselves as strongly against it as those who then occupied