We have received by extraordinary express our usual despatches in anticipation of the Overland Mail. We have intelligence from Delhi of the date of the Bth ultimo Calcutta, the Bth ; Madras, the 14th ; and Bombay, the 17tn. The papers report ''uninterrupted quiet India.' The Gov

Frequent Cabinet Councils and False Rumours.— In reference to the statements which have been so perseveringly repeated in various shapes and quarters of '■ a split in the Cabinet" 011 some presumed question entertained respecting a fixed duty on corn, as well as some hypothetica

52s > INSPECTION INVITED. 20 High Street. ARTHUR BEGG & SONS, Late Akthur Begg. Dundee, December 7, 1849. J UNION ASSOCIATION OF UXDER WRITERS. E ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of this X ASSOCIATION for the SURA\'CE of VESSELS emploved in the Foieign and Coasting rade, belonging the Riv

( From the Same. ) Tt might be worth while to remind those who read the atrocious falsehoods invented to injure the landlords of the country of some of the methods pursued the League conspirators in order to inflame the minds the working classes. If agricultural meetings have li

An adjourned meeting of the Town Council was held on hursday,—Provost l'homs in the chair. I'RLSENTATIOX TO THE CROSS CHURCH. lie memorial from the South Church congregation, requesting the Council to present the Reverend Andrew Taylor, schoolmaster at Duddingstone, to the pasto

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, FRANCE—THE TENTH OF DECEMBER. Louis Napoleon has completed the first year his Republican reign and never, perhaps, any man disappoint more both his friends and his foes. When he first appeared on the political stage as one of the competitors for the Presi

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the folly of the drunkards :— * A mouse, ranging about a brewery, happening to fall into vat of beer, was in imminent danger of drowning, and cried to a cat help him out. The cat replied, it is a foolish request, for soon as get you out shall eat Tl,p mouse piteously rsplied, th

ST ANDREW SQUARE, EDINBURGH. next Investigation into the affairs of this COMPANY takes place on the 20th of January, and all parties opening Participating Policies before that date will be entitled to the liunus then to be declared. To secure an interest in this Bonus, proposals

PRANCE. The President of the Assembly gave a banquet on the 10th. Among the guests were the President of the Repubhc (quite again.) the Papal Nuncio, the Ministers the United States, Russia, Prussia, Austria. Turkey, and others; Count Mole the Count de Montalembert, Louis Luc,en