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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1844,

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MEDICAL REFORM.
(From the Lancet, June 22, 1844.)
To the Master, Wardens, and Court of Assistants
of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of
England and Wales.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gen-
tlemen of the royal suite and the household, attended
Divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel
Royal, Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C.
Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert took their usual
walk in the forenoon of Saturday in the royal gar-
dens of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness
Prince Albert afterwards rode out on horseback, at-
tended by Major-General Sir Edward Bowater,
Equerry in Waiting.
The Royal Family were taken airings on Saturday
in the royal gardens.
The Queen and Prince Albert left Buckingham
Palace at seven o'clock, on Saturday evening, to
honour the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with
their company at the ceremony of the christening at
Stafford-house Her Majesty was attended by the
Duchess of Buccleuch, Mistress of the Robes; and
the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting.
The royal suite followed in three of her Majesty's
carriages, and consisted of the Earl Delawarr, Lord
Chamberlain; the Marquis of Exeter, K.G., Groom
of the Stole to Prince Albert; the Earl of• Warwick,
K.T., Lord in Waiting; Captain Meynell, Groom in
Waiting ; Col. Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting ; and
Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in
Waiting to Prince Albert.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge attended Divine service, yesterday morn•
ing, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street ; Ba-
roness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knesebeck were in wait-
ing on their Royal Highnesses.
Her Royal Higness the Duchess of Cambridge
went on Saturday morning to Kew,returning to town
in the afternoon.

BRUSSELS, JUNE 19.—The King and Queen ar-
rived at the Palace of Lacken this evening at eight
o'clock. The Government has just laid before the
Chamber a project of law, which purposes a vast
plan tendin,, to concentrate, in the hands of the
Government (that of the Minister of Public Works),
almost all the means of conveyance in the kingdom,
both by land and water, the diligence, the carriage of
goods, the steam-packets, between England and
Belgium, &c. Such a plan is,_ at first sight, a con-
sequence of the administration of the railways by the
State ; but it requires serious examination.
The proposed law consists of 11 articles.

Gentlemen,—Under the impression that one faculty
of medicine, with equality of rank and title, is a con-
dition unattainable under existing circumstances,
and equally impossible to retain, if chance for the
m inent annihilated all existing grades, and afforded
an opportunity for trying the experiment; and be-
lieving also (admitting such a chimera to be prac-
ticable) that neither the public nor the profession
would be benefited by such an arrangement, I
take the liberty of offering for your consideration the
following suggestions, with the sincere hope that by a
free and unreserved interchange of opinion, some plan
or other may be devised for harmonising the three
branches of the profession, so that they might work
honourably and satisfactorily together. As a pre-
liminary step, however, I must premise that the
Apothecaries Society should immediately take the
lead, and detach their scientific and professional
department from that which properly should never
have been combined with it, namely, their trad-
ing establishment at Apothecaries' Hall. They
should, in point of fact, never have held
their examinations for licenses to practise medicine at
their shop in the City ! It detracted from the credit
and dignity of the profession, and has constituted, at
all times, the most fertile source of opprobrium and
dissatisfaction. This separation is, I conceive, the
first step that the Society should take, for by this
means the title of apothecary, which has become so
objectionable to professional men, that they seldom, if
ever, designate themselves by it, might altogether
cease as an appellation for them, and be retained only
to describe the members of the trading Society of
Apothecaries—one of the City corporations.
The Council should then invite the profession to
unite with them in a petition to the Legislature for a
charter of incorporation, as a Coll.,ge of General
Practitioners; the whole medical body now practising
under the license of the Apothecaries' Company being
considered members of the proposed college, and the
present list of the Corporation of Apothecaries, as
well as all existing or future licentiates of ten years'
standing, being constituted into a constituency with
the title of fellows, and who shall be eligible for, and
privileged to vote for, the Council, Court of Examiners,
and governing body of the college.
That the college have the power of framing its
own curriculum ; that the education and examination
for its diploma be under the control of its own
governing body, and that it should confer the right
to practice as a general practitioner in all parts of her
Majesty's dominions. That the education of the
general practitioner should be, in every respect,
sufficient for all ordinary practice, and should be in
no degree inferior to that required by the Society of
Apothecaries as at present constituted. To avoid in-
terfering with existing institutions, and to afford the
means for those who desire to cultivate a more ex-
tended knowledge of any particular branch of medical
science, the diplomas of the Colleges of Physicians and
Surgeons respectively may be required of all candi-
dates for army, navy, Indian, hospital, or parochial
appointments. The College of Surgeons requiring
a knowledge of morbid, microscopic, and comparative
anatomy, as well as greater practical skill in surgical
operations. The College of Physicians conferring
degrees of bachelor and doctor of medicine only,
granting no licences to practise whatever, and requir-
ing ample testimony that all on whom the honour of a
degree is conferred are by education fitted to uphold
its dignity and ensure its respect.
By these means the three great subdivisions of the
medical professsion may be made to work harmo-
niously together; each gradation having its own
college, with the arrangement of its curriculum, and
the management of its affairs, under the control and
regulation of its own governing body.
To these suggestions, it may be replied that, on
the passing of the Apothecaries' Act, in 1815,
an application was made to the Legislature for
a charter of incorporation, and refused, on the
ground that it was inexpedient to grant such
charter without some experience of the work-
ing of the new Act of Parliament, a plea which,
however reasonable at the time, is now clearly in-
admissible after nearly thirty years' experience, and
with a retrospect so highly creditable to the
parties to whom the administration of the Apothe-
caries' Act was deputed. Surely a refusal under
such circumstances should in no degree intimidate
or dismay the Society of Apothecaries at the pre-
sent moment. What was then a matter of doubt,
namely, the effect of their administration of the
rules and regulations for conducting the education
of the apothecary on the acquirements of the future
practitioner, is now a matter of triumphant con-
gratulation. The rank, talents, and professional re-
putation, with the hold they have on society, fully
entitle the present body of general practitioners
to this mark of consideration. I have been in-
duced to address these observations to the Court
of Assistants of the Society of Apothecaries, be-
cause I consider both the public and the profession as
deeply indebted to them for the great benefits con-
ferred on the former, and for the honourable position
into which they have elevated the latter, and still
more from an anxious desire to identify more com-
pletely the interests of the Society and its licentiates.
—I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, your
very obedient servant, JAMES BIRD.
16, Orchard-street, June 11, 1844.

Art. 1. There shall be a daily steamer between
England and Belgium for the conveyance of passen-
gers and mails. For this purpose the department of
Public Works shall have credit for a sum of one
million of francs for the purchase of these packets.
Art. 2. The Government is authorised to establish
successively, and wherever it shall think necessary,
similar communication by steam-boats for the con-
veyance of goods, passengers, and mails.
13aussEns, JUNE 20.—The Countesssaf Westmore-
land, with her family and suite, has arrived at Brus-
sels, on her way from Berlin to London.
ROTTERDAM, JUNE 18.—Accounts from Batavia,
dated Feb. 29, have been received to-day by the Co-
lonial department, respecting the assassination of the
members of the agency of the factory of the Nether-
lands Commercial Company, in the island of Bali.
This circumstance, added to other evil deeds, such as
the plundering of the Dutch East Indiaman Overypol,
Capt. Blom, two years ago, make it not only desirable
but absolutely necessary for our Government to take
more rigorous measures for the maintenance of our
influence and the safety of our flag in the Indian
Archipelago.
His Majesty the King, the Grand Duke of Luxem-
bourg, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange,
are expected in the city of Luxembourg at the end of
this month, or the beginning of the next.
'Tits II kGUE, JUNE 20.—The debates on the pro-
ject of the law relating to the redemption and conver-
sion of the public debt commenced in the Second
Chamber of the States General to-day. The list of
members inscribed to speak both for and against the
measure being exhausted, the Chamber adjourned till
to-morrow, when the Minister of Finance will speak
in favour of the law.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yes-
terday-.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their
presence on Saturday evening.
A deputation, consisting of Lord Howard, the
Rev. V. H. P. Somerset, the Rev. J. J. Smith, Mr.
J. Lahouchere, Mr. J. Tollemache, M.P., Mr. Joseph
Wilson, Mr. Rochfort Clarke, Mr. Bridges, Mr. E.
V. Sidebottom, Mr. P. White, Mr. A. Gordon, and
Mr. G. J. P. Smith, had an interview with the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone on Saturday, at the office of
the Board of Trade.

Lord Heytesbury had an interview with Sir Robert
Peel on on Saturday.
A deputation of country bankers, including Mr.
Rochdale, Mr. Melville, and Mr. Spooner, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Duke of -Wellington and Sir F. Trench at-
tended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St.
James's yesterday. The sermon was preached by the
Hon. and Rev. N. Grenville.

THE HAGUE, JUNE 21.—1 n the sitting of the Se-
cond Chamber to-day, his Excellency the Minister of
Finance spoke at great length in favour of the law for
the conversion of the debt, and gave various informa-
tion on the subject, amongst which was, that the
Belgian Government will begin on the Ist of August
to pay the second instalment of the Belgian shares of
the national debt of the Netherlands. His Excel-
lency further announced that the project of law re-
specting the tariff of duties on importation and ex-
portation, or transit, will be shortly laid before the
Chamber.

The Duchesses of Beaufort and Sutherland,the Mar-
quises of Anglesey and Salisbury; Lords Effingham,
Bandon, Wilton, Cawdor, Mulgrave, Leveson, Ha-
therton. Ebrington, and Wrottesley ; Ladies Wilton
and L. Gower, attended the daily service yesterday in
the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Prayers were read
by the Rev. W. Hall ; the sermon was preached by
the Hon. and Rev. N. Grenville. The musical ser-
vice was Nares in F, and the Sanctus in F, Hawes.
The anthem, " Awake unto the Lord" (Travers),
was sung by Messrs. Horncastle and Chapman. Sir
George Smart presided at the organ.
The Duke of Montrose, the Marchioness of Ales-
bury, Lords Delawarr, Godolphin, Canterbury, Can-
tilupe, Forester, and Norreys ; Ladies Wilton and
Ernest Bruce, attended the afternoon service yester-
day in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
Sir Edward and Lady Kerrison had a dinner party
on Saturday at their residence in Great Stanhope-
street. The company included the Duke and Duchess
of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Poulett, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Blandford, Lady Louisa Churchill,
the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, the Marquts
of Salisbury, Monsieur St. Aulaire, the Earl of 11-
chester and Lady Caroline Strangways, Viscount and
Viscountess Holmesdale, Lord Seaham, Lord Stayer-
dale' Lord Curzon, Mr. W. Peel, Mr. Tomline, Lord
and Lady Mahon,

After some discussion, the question was put, and
the project of law agreed to by a majority of 43 to 14.
AMSTER]) t. 31, JUNE 21.—We hear with great plea-
sure that Captain Nap, of the ship Madeira, states that
he thinks he may possibly affirm that the account of the
murder of two officers of the factory in the island of
Bali, published in the New Rotterdam Courrant of the
19th of June, was founded on an entirely false report,
which was spread while he was in India at Soerabaja and
Passaroeang, and with such an appearance of probability
that a squadron of armed vessels, which was ready to put
to sea on a service against the pirates, was sent to Bali,
but he afterwards learned at Banjoewangle, that the flo-
tilla had returned, having found Bali in a state of per-
fect tranquility, and thrt there was not a syllable of
truth in the report of disorders, and of the above-men-
tioned murder. The Captain left Banjoewangle on the
29th of February.

BERLIN, JUNE 18.—His Majesty the Emperor of
Russia and her Royal Highness the Dowager Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, with Princess
Louisa, her daughter, arrived at six o'clock in the af-
ternoon of the 15th at Swinenmonde, after a rather
stormy, but afterwards favourable and quiet passage. At
eight o'clock *ley put to sea in the Russian steamer
Bogater ; the wind was rather stormy, but favourable
for the voyage to St. Petersburgh.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JuNE 21.
Money. Bills.
Actual MIA, 2% per Cent .. ..... ..." " 61% 61 '
Ditto, ditto 5 per cext.: „ „ 100 k 1
Amort Syndic. 4% per cent " W 99
Ditto, ditto. 9% per coat .„0„.....„ 87 87i
Commercial Company, 4!,', per cent.".."" 141 1 41+
Loan 1837. 5 per cent. •.".•"".............." 99 100
Exchange on London, 0nem0nth"."."."...12 12%
Two m0nth......." 12 07
1
Hamburgh, One menth"..... ..... 35 62
Two months 57 67%
Dutch Papers, June 21.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JUNE 14.
Five per Cents. Metalliques •
•••••••. 111
1003(
77
-" 1634

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
on Saturday. The Lords present were the Lord Pre-
sident, Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor Knight
Bruce, and the Chancellor of the Duchy ofCornwall.
Dr. Addams was heard on an appeal from the
Prerogative Court, " Panton v. Williams" (part
heard at a former meeting). Lord Brougham gave
judgment. The Court then rose.
The following memorandum of the business of the
Court was issued on Saturday :
" The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
will resume its sittings on Monday, 22d July.
" Their Lordships will dispose of all the cases set
down for hearing on or before the 18th July.
" All cases not set down on that day, will be post-
poned until after Michaelmas Term.
" Privy Council-office, June 22, 1844."

Four par Cents

Three per Cents.
Bank Shares ....

Allgemeine Zeitung, June 18.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-13saun, JUNE 18.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. ...... 1013( 100(
Prussian English Bonds, MO, 4 per cent
Exchange on London 6 22%
Prussian State Gazette. June 19.
BELGIAN FUND3.—Baussats, Junit 20.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent,„
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ..... 102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. 99
Three per
Thirty-seven Millir ns, ditto .........
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent.... . . ... .....
102
........ . ..... ....... 104
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent
Issue of 1811 lO9l
—Brussels Papers, June2l.

A paragraph has lately been going the round of the
papers to the effect that Mr. John Frost, the celebrated
Chartist, having been released from the degradation and
drudgery of working in chains like the other con-
victs, his wife and two daughters were on the
eve of quitting England to join him. This is
incorrect. It is quite true that Mrs. Frost, in
every letter she has written to her husband for
some time past, has expressed a most earnest desire to
go out, with her daughters, to him ; but he formerly
objected to her leaving England to join him, on account
of the degraded and wretched situation in which he was
placed. Now that his sentence has been so far com-
muted as to make him a clerk in one of the Government
offices, he entreats her not to entertain for a moment the
idea of coming out to him, assigning as the reason that
he has the very best ground for believing that he will
ere long receive a full pardon, and have the happiness of
rejoining her and his daughters in England. Mrs.
Frost has, in consequence, abandoned the idea of going
out to New South Wales to her husband. It is worthy
of remark that she is a lady by birth, education, and
manners, and that her two daughters, both grown up,
are also well educated and accomplished.--Observer.

INCENDIARISM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sra,—lncendiarism exists in the county OlSuffolk
to an alarming extent. This we learn from the local
papers, and from Mr. Gibson, the Earl of Stradbroke,
and other gentlemen residing in that county. Being
a Suffolk man, I have been very anxious to learn the
cause of this horrid practice of burning food to make
it cheap. All I can learn is, that no satisfactory
cause can be given. Low wages, I know, many per-
sons think is the cause ; and, if I mistake not, it has
been stated that wages are lower in the immediate
neighbourhood where the fires have occurred than they
are in other parts of the county. This statement is
entirely without foundation ; and I will add, that
wages in Suffolk are not lower than they are in other
counties. In some parts of the county I hope a good
feeling exists between the labourer and his master
but I doubt this good feeling does not extend far.;
We may sometimes look back to see what is before us.
There can be no question that for some months a war
has been going on between the manufacturing and
agriculturing interest. Now, what is the general
feeling of the landowners and tenant-farmers in Suf-
folk towards the manufacturers ? ‘Vhy, they say we will
prove to you that we cannot spare! a protective duty
upon corn, and that we can barely keep our labourers
from starving with the protection we now have ; and
they go on to argue that we only follow your exam-
ple by turning our men upon the roads when we have
no profitable work for them ; and this we show you
to prove that our situation is not a very enviable one,
and indeed that we have nothing to spare. The men,
with few exceptions, who labour upon the soil in Suf-
folk are an honest, patient, hard .working people, but
let us not forget that these people have connections
working at various trades, and some of them living
they cannot tell how.
If discontent is stirred up amongst the agricul-
tural labourers depend upon it that it extends much
further. Master and man do not pull in the same
boat as I should wish to see them. The high bearing
of the masters to the men is not palatable to them, and
no kindly feeling exists. In my opinion this incen-
diarism may be traced to three causes, viz.—the want
of a better understanding between master and man,
increase of population, and the harshness of some of
the clauses in the new Poor-law Bill.—l am, Sir, &c.
Warwick. J. F.

A very handsome new iron steamer, the "Princess
Mary," destined for the continental traffic, as we hear,
arrived in Dover harbour yesterday, from the Thames.
This vessel very much resembles the Princess Alice
Government packet; and it is supposed by some that it
is not unlikely she may also, like that vessel, become a
Government packet froth this port. It has been hitherto
given out that the Princess Mary was to ply between
Folkestone and Boulogne, in connection with the South-
Eastern Railway. Be her future destination, however,
what it may, we understand she takes her first trip this
day from Dover to Calais, with the Directors of the
South-Eastern Railway Company, when it is expected a
trial of speed will take place between her and the Princess
Alice.—Dover Chronicle of Saturday,
MISFORTUNES SELDOM COME SINGLY.—Two New-
castle gentlemen, who had determined to enjoy the
pleasures of our Regatta, on Tuesday last, took their
places, per rail, for our venerable-city, duly supplied
with a goodly store of provender, intended to be used,
as appetite should dictate, under cover of our beau-
tiful shady woods. On arriving at Durham, however,
they discovered that they had left their refreshments
at the station, at Gateshead. After conferring to-
gether awhile, they resolved to dispatch a person for
the lost " creature comforts." Away hastened the
messenger to the station, and jumped into the first
train ; but, lo ! at the expiration of an hour, he found
himself set down at Darlington. He explained that
he wanted to be at Newcastle, and was once more put
into the train. In due time he was again seemingly at
the end of his journey ' • but on turning out he found
himself at Sunderland. He then explained again to the
railway people that he wanted to be at Gateshead, and
was once more fairly launched in the train, and finally
found himself at the desired point. He then thought
his troubles were at an end, and applied for the provi-
sions left by the gentlemen in the morning ; but was
told that as he had not a note authorising him to receive
the package, they could not give it up to him, and
misericorde !—he was at last obliged to wing his way
back to Durham, out of money, temper, and everything.
—Durham Chronicle.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AT
WOLVERHAMPTON.

On the 19th instant, Edward Cudd, the driver and
proprietor ofthe Birmingham stage coach, appeared be-
fore Dr. Dehane for having wantonly ill-treated one of
his horses, and on the evidence of John Smith, one of
the officers of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, he was convicted, and fined in a pe-
nalty of 205., and l ls. Gd. costs.
James Moore, a pig driver, was convicted on the evi-
dence of the same officer, and fined 10s., and Bs. 6d. costs,
for cruelly beating one of the pigs which he was driving.
Jeremiah Leadheiter, for ill-treating a horse, was fined
205., and 6s. Gd. costs.

VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S PAR-
TIES.—On Saturday evening the above Noble Viscount and
Viscountess received a select party to dinner, at their man-
sion in Carlton-house-terrace. His Lordship held an assem-
bly after dinner; all the saloons being opened for the recep-
tion. Among the visitors were—His Excellency Meer Jaffer
Alee Khan, and Mirza Lootfallah Khan, his Excellency
Count de St. Aulaire, his Excellency the Belgian Minister,
Madame Van de Weyer, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala,
and his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, Duchess of
Buccleuch, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lad Augusta
Somerset, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Duchess de
Coigny and Mademoiselle de Coigny, Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, his Excellency M. Dedel, Prince and
Princess Radzivill, his Excellency Baron Nieumann, Countess
Pallfv, Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Dowager Countess
of Morley, Lady Theresa Lister,. Earl of Besborough,
Eari of Auckland, and Mr. and Miss Eden, Countess of
Gainsborough and Lady Louisa Noel, Hon. Coloilel and Mrs.
Dawson Darner and Miss Darner, Lord Harry Vane, Earl and
Countess of Malmesbury, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, Lord
Redesdale, Lord John Manners, Lord and Lady Cottenham
and Hon. Misses Pepys, Sir John and. Lady Easthope, Sir
Frederick Trench, Countess of Tankerville, Lord John Rus-
sell, Earl and Countess of Miuto and Ladles Elliot, Lord and
Lady Melgund, Viscount and Viscountess Campden, Mr.
Tomline, Sir Augustus Foster, Baron Talleyrand, Hon. W.
Jocelyn, Captain F. Seymour, &c.
IIAYMARKET THEATRE.—Among the nobility who
have visited the Haymarket. Theatre within the last few
nights to see the new comedy, Quid pro Quo, were the
Duchess of Bedford, the Dukes of Bedford, Devonshire, and
Leeds; Marquises Clanricarde and Douro; Earl and Coun-
tess Craven ; Viscount and Viscoiintess Leveson ; the EWA
of Lincoln, Pembroke, and Belfast; Lord and Ltd Brooke I
Lady Holland, Lords Ranelagh, Macdonald, Albert Cunning-
ham, Falmouth, and Dillon ; Generals Lord Strafford and
Espartero ; Hon. Spencer Ponsonby, E. Lascelles, F. Leveson,
R. Dore, G. Barrington ; Mrs. Arbuthnot, Sir H, I'y
app
Lady Webster, Sirs Henry Wheatley, W. Vreerarilitle, John
Quin, Andrew Corbett, Captain Maw;. Scc,

George Taylor, for the same offence, the same fine and
cost.

John Mottishani, for the same offence, the same fine
and costs.

Benjamin Russell and Sarah Brown, for cruely to
donkey:, were fined,'the former 10s., and 6s. 6d. costs,
the latter 55., and 4s. 6d. costs.

CAMBLETOWN.—Great preparations have been made
here for the horring fishery this sea-ion. Upwards of
one hundred and fifty boats are already afloat, and this
fleet is shortly to be joined by forty new boats, built in
the low country on an improved plan, and of a larger
size than those formerly used here. The greater
number of them, end particularly the new ones,
are to be supplied with the patent machine nets,
and the trains to be of greater length, in
proportion to the size of the boats, than those formerly
in use. The larger trains will extend to twenty-five
pieces, each piece being fifty fathoms in length. The
large boats have a crew of five men, the second size four
men, and the smallvr ones three men each—thus afford-
ing employment to a number of individuals who anti-
cipate a prosperous fishing, for which a ready market is
found in Glasgow at a high price, in the commencement
of the season, the herrings being carried there fresh by
the steamers, and those caught in the latter end of the
season being cured for winter use.—Scotch Paper.
A fine specimen of the celebrated "mummy" wheat
is growing fast to maturity, in the gardens of Sir Hugh Dillon
Massy, Bait, Doonass. The seed was found in one of the
Egyptian catacombs, and its produce is superior to any other
known, yielding nearly double the number of grains in the
ordinary head of wheat.—Beffastpaper.'