so long as our disabilities continue, there must be some organ to speak the sentiments of the people-some guardian to watch over their interests and protect them from injustice, some friend to recommend, for their guidance, such rules as will preserve them from reproach, and tend to their amelioration or their happiness." The amount of rent acknowledged to have been received for the week was £775, 2s. 3d.

The meeting adjourned to Thursday.

PROFESSORSHIP OF CONVEYANCING. 11th.-Tuesday, Professor Napier took possession of the rooms allotted for him, and gave his first lecture within the walls of the College. The room was filled with students, professors, and gentlemen of the law. Professor Napier was received with long and cordial cheers; and after a few remarks on the expediency and good effects of the new arrangement, and on the liberal and enlightened spirit evinced by those who had carried it through, he delivered a very interesting lecture on the origin and progress of the feudal system.

AYR.-A silly girl named Campbell, whose petty delinquencies have some times been the subject of a newspaper paragraph, has played her final trick. On Saturday last she entered a house in town unperceived by the inmates, and reached the dining-room press, where cakes and buns were deposited for an evening party of seventeen. These she totally devoured, and washed down with a bottle of old Jamaica rum, which she drained to the last drop. She was found weltering on the floor in a state not to be described, and on Monday she died in consequence of the surfeit.

12th.-BRISTOL.-The Earl of Liverpool and Mr Canning having

arrived at Bristol on their way to Bath, the mayor and aldermen of the former city agreed to present them with the freedom of the city, and invite them to a public dinner, as a testimony of respect for their public conduct. The town-clerk announced to the two distinguished statesmen, in a highly complimentary speech, the fact of their now being freemen of Bristol. The Earl of Liverpool and Mr Canning returned thanks. After which the party sat down to a most sumptuous dinner.

HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH.-The Anniversary General Meeting of this Society was held on Tuesday the 11th inst. The Society met in their new Hall, Albyn Place, which has been finished and fited up in a style and with a taste which do much credit to Mr Playfair the architect. The accommodations for the Directors, committees, and acting officers, and for the Library, are in every respect complete, as will also be the apartments for models of machinery, when finished, as proposed; but we suspect the room for the General Meetings, which for its size is a very beautiful specimen of pure Greek architecture, may occasionally be found small for the accommodation of the very numerous and constantly increasing members of this great institution.

Soon after one o'clock, nearly 200 members were assembled, and among them, the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon; the Marquis of Tweeddale; the Earls of Mar and Aboyne; Lord Nairne; the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart.; the Right Hon. Charles Grant, M. P.; Hon. Baron Sir P. Murray, Bart.; Lord Meadowbank; Hon. Admiral Fleming; Sir William Forbes; Sir John Hope; Sir John Hay; Sir Thomas Dick Lauder ;

Sir James Colquhoun; Sir Archibald Campbell; and Sir A. Maitland Gibson, Barts.; General Sir John Hope, K. C. B; Sir W. Macleod Bannatyne, and others.

On the motion of the Duke of Hamilton, seconded by the Earl of Mar, the Marquis of Tweeddale, one of the Vice-Presidents in office, was unanimously called to the chair, when, af ter a ballot, as prescribed by the Society's charter, a number of gentlemen were duly admitted members.

Mr Innes, the Treasurer, submitted to the meeting a view of the funds of the Society, which proved highly gratifying.

Mr Macdonald, the Secretary, then reported the proceedings of the Directors since the last general meeting in July. He submitted a general view of the rewards bestowed for promoting the agricultural and internal improvement of Scotland. In speaking of kelp, the Secretary noticed with approbation the successful experiments of Mr M'Crummen of Leith, with the view of improving its quality on the east coast, where it had previously been rated at a comparatively low value. He also observed that various local agricultural societies were now very judiciously devoting a portion of their funds to promote attention to veterinary surgery, by encouraging skilful veterinary surgeons to settle in their respective districts, or for defraying a part of the expense of sending farriers to Edinburgh, to attend the lectures given by Mr Dick, under the Society's patronage.

Mr Ferguson of Woodhill submit ted the report of the Commitee for conducting the General Show of Live Stock at Edinburgh, which was to this effect:

1. That the General Show of Stock, and Exhibition of Implements of Husbandry, Roots, and Seeds, should

be continued in 1825, in Edinburgh.

2. That it is expedient that the General Exhibition of Stock should also be continued in 1826, but to be held in Glasgow, and the same sum applied for this purpose as is given in Edinburgh, and that this should be immediately announced for the information of competitors.

On the motion of the Duke of Hamilton, seconded by the Earl of Aboyne, the report was approved of.

Mr Robertson Scott of Benholme, from the Committee for deciding the premiums for the best specimens of Dunlop and of imitation double Gloucester cheese, made in Scotland, reported the very satisfactory result of this the first competition. Fifty-two cheeses had been sent in, and from the affidavits of competitors it appeared that some thousand stones of the same quality must have been made in the course of the year. By the advice of several practical judges, who had afforded the Committee the benefit of their assistance, the first premium for Dunlop was awarded to Mr Sanderson, tenant in Blackcastle, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, and that for imitation double Gloucester, to Mr James Bell of Woodhouselees, Dumfries-shire; the Judges being farther of opinion, that many of the specimens of the latter description of cheese were equal in quality and flavour to real Gloucester cheese.

A most favourable report was made by Mr Monro Binning, from the Committee appointed to decide the premiums offered by the Society, for promoting the curing of provisions in Scotland, after the manner practised in Ireland. He said, that in a branch of industry, previously almost unknown in Scotland, a rapid advance had already been made in the quarters where the premiums were offered. They were limited, in the first place

assistance of Mr Mackintosh Mackay, who proved himself eminently qualified for the task. They likewise had been able to procure the use of the earliest and only known copy of Bishop Carsewell's Liturgy, printed in Gaelic in 1566, from the library of the noble family of Argyll. A considerable portion of the Dictionary, now completed, lay on the table for inspection of members, who would be gratified equally by the style and appearance of the work; the remainder was advancing expeditiously through the press, and there did not seem any doubt, that in about a year, or little more, the whole would be offered, in a finished state, to the public.

A very great number of requests for premiums, from various districts of Scotland, were referred to the Di

Sir John Hope of Craighall, Bart.
Alexander Young, Esq. of Harburn.
James Jardine, Esq. Civil-Engineer.
Robert Patrick, Esq. of Hazlehead.
Adam Fergusson, Esq. of Woodhill.
Dr Thomas C. Hope, Professor of Chemist-
ry in the University of Edinburgh.
George Macpherson Grant, Esq. of Ballin-
John Barclay, M.D. Edinburgh.
Henry Jardine, Esq. of Harwood.
David Monro Binning, Esq. of Softlaw.
William Macdonald, Esq. of St Martin's.
Alexander Thomson, Esq. of Banchory.
James Hunter, Esq. of Thurston.
H. Home Drummond, Esq. of Blair Drum-
mond, M. P.

dalloch and Invereshie, M. P.

Dr Robert Graham, Professor of Botany in
the University of Edinburgh.
George Robertson Scott, Esq. of Benholme.
Robert Dundas, Esq. of Arniston.
Alexander Osborne, Esq. late one of the

Commissioners of Customs for Scotland. H. Macdonald Buchanan, Esq. of Drumakill.

James Stuart, Esq. younger, of Dunearn.
Robert Abercromby, Esq. of Birkenbog.
P. Small Keir, Esq. of Kinmonth.
Rear-Admiral Sir David Milne, K. C.B.
George Sinclair, Esq. younger, of Ulbster.
James L'Amy, Esq. of Dunkenny.
Alexander Macleod, Esq. of Harris.
John Shaw Stewart, Esq. Advocate.

by the Earl of Aboyne, in very appropriate terms, moved the thanks of the Society to the Marquis of Tweeddale, for his Lordship's able discharge of the duty of Vice-President. The Noble Marquis expressed his acknowledgments.

In the afternoon, a party of above ninety noblemen and gentlemen, members of the Society, attended the anniversary dinner at the Waterloo Tavern, when Lord Tweeddale did the duties of the chair.

A letter from Naples, of the 4th of January, informs us, that the King expired in the morning between six and eight o'clock, of a sudden attack of apoplexy. The Nuncio, the Ambassador of Spain, the Austrian Miister, and the French Charge d'Affaires, were introduced, with the whole Council, into the King's apartment. His Majesty was lying on his back, with his mouth open, but his features were not at all changed; only on his left hand, which was uncovered, there appeared some marks of extravasated blood. All the posts, as well as the guard of the palace, were doubled as a measure of prudence. No apprehension was, for a moment, entertained of the tranquil lity of the capital.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE RIGHT HON.

CHARLES J. FOX.

On the 24th, a numerous company dined in the Waterloo Hotel, to celebrate this anniversary. The chair was taken by Francis Jeffrey, Esq. who was supported on his right by the Duke of Hamilton, and on his left by Sir A. M. Gibson. At one end of the chairman's table sat the Earl of Rosslyn; at the other, Lord Glenorchy. James Moncrieff, Esq. acted as croupier.

Among the distinguished personages present were,-Mr Maule of Pan

mure, M. P.; Mr M. A. Taylor, M. P.; Mr J. P. Grant, M. P.; General Ferguson, M. P.; Mr Ferguson of Raith; Mr Menteath of Closeburn; Mr J. Gibson Craig of Riccarton, &c. &c. &c. A number of loyal and constitutional toasts were given, and several eloquent speeches delivered.

THE THEATRE.-MR KEAN. 24th.-DRURY-LANE.-The greatest crowd that we ever saw assembled on any theatrical occasion, except when his present Majesty visited the theatre for the first time, gathered round this theatre, to witness the first appearance of Mr Kean after the recent trial which excited so much curiosity. Great part of this crowd appeared before the several avenues to the theatre at an early hour, and some time before the usual period of opening the doors, it was very difficult to get near to them. At length the doors were opened, and a furious rush took place. The pit was almost instantaneously filled, but as places were taken in the boxes, the arrangements for retaining them were observed for some time, till, at length, all the usual restraints were overcome, and the boxes also were rapidly filled, and few of those who had taken places were able to secure them. During the time when the audience were entering into the different tiers of boxes, a clamour commenced between those who were opponents of Mr Kean and those who had come determined to favour him; and which seemed to have reached its acme when the house was actually filled. On the rising of the curtain, and the appearance of performers, a more furious contest arose between the respective parties, than we had ever before witnessed, consisting of hisses, cries of "Kean for ever!"-" No Kean !"-" Little Breeches !"-and other allusions to the letters which were read on the