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-- . Connaught rents were supporting - the made a As board of blame 00 ,- from the aspersions Li upon description of the distress, A which _ an eye-witness, in Ire. land. Ile asked the government to lay aside all objections founded on political economy, and to introduce Into Irel

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ground-rent. As the same may be done In Glasgow, I trust that, ere long, energetic measures will be adopted in this—now perhaps the largest city in the United Kingdom—to carry out similar improvements." On one other point (and we regret that we cannot, from our limited space, ex

PRESENTATION District a- _ n. the Master supported on the right I. Peter bfacLagan, jun., Esq.; croupier. After the usual hon. chairman, in a sy , and kindly feeling, - as • most intelligent man enjoying tb community, A long 2d,. ;Calder; TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. A meeting of Co

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and then only on the 3d. When the 3d or 18th occurs one Sunday. the mails are not despatched till the day following. The mails are despatched from Glasgow on the evening of the 9d and 17th. HIGH WATER AT GLASGOW AND GREENOCK

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILROAD COMMITTEE. This committee having on Friday assembled at the usual hour, the first witness called was Mr Granth3m, civil engineer, whose examination in chief by Mr. John Sidney Taylor, was to this effect :—I have been employed by Mr. Rennie (now Sir J