A c'i:'u1' ?? J'YE-J,!LC'I ,.N;q Timc nunnber of Parliiamentary %estq at Prelleiit vacant, or anout ti boe % aicted Ot fhllurtlv, promirin: tro be as large as ws wite C zsc ;t tile oprlling of la rt te3C'iull. 'n Soar f i-i yet I:r owul, thonre will be a siill f, :) iht f. r ill

COMUMBROIAL EDUOATION IN AUSTRIA. I - - - - - - _ I Mr Horace Rumbold, in his report on the com- mercial education system in Austria, goes back to the year 1830, when, he says, comiuercial schools were founded in Paris, and a year later at Leipzig. Ho then traces the history of c

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF | ?? .hi BANF'SHIlRE BRANOH. The annual meeting of Baniffshire Bmrach of ,he Educational Institute of Scotland was held ,ip Keith Public School on Saturday afternoon. Mr Reid; Portgordon, the retiring president, was in the chair, and there was a good atte

To be Sold, by Private Bargmn, ___ THE STOCK-IN-TRADE and GOODWILL ot the PORTER and ALE BUSINESS lately camion by Earnest Morren and Company, .16, Regent Q • eg for a A good Business has been carried on number of years; and to a person with a small Cal P An Inventory and Valuat

THE APPOINTMENT OF MEDICAL OFFICER. Smn-I fancy the stir about the appointmeut of a medical officer of health is exercising the m-indl of many of your correspondents. May an old militarvy surgeon and sanitary officer say a word in this heated controversy ? I cannot help thinking

On Tuesday, Bth December, there will be Sold, Auction, in the Hall, 38, St Nicholas Street, QUANTITY of FURNITURE, mostly New, and l\_ Warranted Aberdeen Manufacture—including one Mahogany Wardrobe —Two do. Chiffoniers— One do. Cabinet and Bookcase —Two do. Loo Tables (Pillar an

SALE OF TALKING PARROTS, PAROQUETS, JAVA SPARROWS, CUT-THROAT BIRDS, *c. &c.; also, a variety of useful CAGES, within the New Auction Hall, 2, Flourmill Brae, off St. Nicholas Street. Sale to commence at 12 noon, and 7 o’clock evening. Now on View. W. T. KEITH, Auctioneer.

It ia gomewh a tremavtaV,i • Aberdeen presided over , . ri - the Earl of period extending from ff, the .^ es *' °f this country—a ffient December resignation of the Derby Governon to power in’ t0 t^—ccess!on Lord Palraermi?' rS °f the peerage I®. did not confer the Ministration.

newed a few years before their expiration, for the advantage ot both parties. Mr Hope thinks leases should contain provisions for paying the tenant for permanent improvements, and for unexhausted fertility. He says there is often wonderful amount of produce obtained from a farm