26 DECEMBER 1846, page 5

A Public Meeting Was'. Held In The Music Hall At

Edinburgh, on Friday last, to devise means of mitigating the distress in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The Lord Provost presided. The Reverend Norman M'Leod, of......

Ireland.

A Treasury minute, dated the 7th of December, sanctions a modifica- tion of the system originally laid down for the drainage of the land. After a review of all the enactments,......