... sOOTLAND DAY BY DAY. COI'tIINGS, GOINGS, DOINGS. jV, Orlistoin Chant is to visit Glasgow on ?? February. ,qp Ji ,li Henderson has got to work on a 1r ?? portrait of Sir Charles Cameron, RI 'le Enli of Dundolldlkd has taken up thle corn- 1 sd o ~f the nd Life Guards at Knightsbridge in successioti to Colonel E. 1I. 1,ttxi Rosebery has writtent to the Progressive tin East Fiusbury stating that, ...

... 1IJE ROUT. WITH the Gladstonians it is now a case of sauce qui pent. And few of them are able to t save themselves. They are going down like c ninepins in at skittle-alley. We stated i yesterday that it looked as if the Unionists would will 100 seats before the close of the week. They have done better than we ex- pected, for their wilns Up till late last night amounted to 100, as against t 18 ...

... ThiE 7REVOLT IN THE REVOLU- TI(J.VIS2 CAMP. NMr Gladstone, by a curious miscon- Cdii ion of the language of Lady Nairne's b~ ,lld, spoke of Scotland as the Land Go thle Leal,`' he meant of course that its -pe iwere trusty and true to the ii~esi uIcause, In a certain sense he was jesuir~`d in his belief, for at that tinme many .Iudinults went astray under the mag- ntic il!lu-nce of his ...

... LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S ILLNE SS. TAE last time, we heard Lord Randolph Churchill speak was on the occasion of his his- toric visit to the capital of Ulster. It was during the fiercest period of the Home Rule conflict. There was hot blood and bad blood in the northern province at that time, for the memory of the Belfast riots was recent, and the shooting of innocent citizens by Mr Morley's ...

... t 1 I _, I The past has been an eventful year in Dendee- erhape the darkest in the history of its trade and commerce, Never before did the jute indastry reach so low an ebb, work at mid-summer being he practically at a standstill, and both employers and m. employed suffering, in different degrees, of course, )v. the greatest hardship. To the latter the pinch op of poverty and all the misery ...

... I NEWS 19 EeUSBASTIGA-L NEWS. I - I CONGREtGATIONAL CHVuB STATISTIcS. - Oicial returns of the Congregational Churches show that there are now in England and Wales 4692 places of worship belonging to that body, with acoommnoda- tion for 1,513,722 persona, an increase for the year of 43.701 sittings. In Soetland there are 99 churches, and in Ireland 27, with 9B evangelistic stations. TaB C . To ...

... I?O1tTRERN SUMME[? UESORTS. D. IMPROV~hEMNTS AND PROSPECTS AT BALILATER. Comparatively Low lodgers have as yet arrived ta in Ballater, where the real season does not gener- sal 'ally comomence till July. leseside is looking beau. ive tiful, and the brilliant weather of the past ten days Led seems to have anticipated summer and revealed the burgh in all its brigheat attraCtiveetiss. Ib will be ...

... THE U2N1iiVFRSITIES OF ABERDEIEN. ~I ¢S. ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND UNION. tt tht V. -Tjm COmmiSSION oF 1690: ENDOW- d' mlmsm: CIVILISTS. d1 t 16S4 Principal Alexander Middleton re- il I Attached to his resignation was the 0dition that, if the office should again become PI vsint dhiring his lifetime, he ' should have free ,r both tO the Rsill ofttice and ill the benefits ti 01 cwluxuenits thereof ...

... IT is highly diverting to note the indig- fo nant tone which the Ministerial organs of assume when giving denial to dissolution tj rumours. Nothing, they say, is further from 13 the thoughts of the Government. There m may be doubts as to who is actually the leader of the party; they will even admit that Sir William Harcourt and the other members of the Cabinet do not see eye to eye with regard ...

... PROFESSOR BUCKIi LAST LETTER. ijiiONE ltu LI ALL ROUSD.5 The following letter must have been one of the last written communications which the late Professor Blackie put his pen to. It was addressed to Messrs Blackie & Sons, the publishers, of Glas- gow:- 9 Douglas Crescept, Feb. 15, 1895. My Dear Sir,-Accept my best thanks for your last instalment of the ' Ristory of the Scottish People.' ...

... C1ARGB oF Tarit,-Wrn. Davidson Strath, farm servant, Pitaligo, emitted a declaration-be. fore Sberiff Rampini, IElgin-on a charge of theft by opening a lock-fast. trunk at Braehaugh, Rafford. He was comnmitted for trial. Pg$lIi~EAD. POLIlC Coult.-At a Pohlce Court held here yesterdy -Baillie Rosa presiding - Andrew Foenii.ii, fisherinan. iwohauhaven, plcaded n66 guilty of having on Friday, ...

... SA TUJDA Y'S STO Rif. NOT since that fateful December of 1879, wlhen the Tay Bridge xvas blown down, 1as ?? a storm devastated the entire country as that of Saturday. After the laise of nearly two days even vwe cannot estimate aright the loss of life and dam ige to property sustained, for the simple reasoll that the storm has made a clean sweep of the teleglraph syste3in, broken down railway ...