... AND M!D-LOTHIAN R[FLlE -ASSOCUATION. z FBrnAi, Ot t.18-SCOND DAY. The shooting was limited to two competitions in the Hua ter's Bog. The principal competition was at 200 and fl0 yards, tive rounds at eadh, for the following poizees -lst, Lord Provost's cup; ...

... old Italian designs. A NantEb girls' dance, a Tudor dance (in which the dancers wear dresses of specially woven brocade in ch~estnut, and gold), a Japanese dance of children in crvsantbemum' dresses, and a minuet danced by girls and youths in Lonis Fifteenth ...

... oases were sadly disfigured, and the inijuries seemed to have been causgd either by falls on the stairs, or from the heavy clogs of other victims who I-bad been thrown or had jumped down upon them, -death being caused in most instances by suffocation; ...

... model farms or at industrial schools, where capital and all the appliances necessary for high farming aro supplied in abuin- dance, are utter]y worthless as evidence as to the circumstanece of the ordinary run of small farmers either in Ireland or elsewhere ...

... Joyal and Western Infirmaries came off last evening in the St Andrew's Halls with great ediat. About 1150 ladies and gentlemen danced, and there were in addition some 350 spectators. It is eapect ed that about £2a' will be realised for the In- firmaries. ...

... France which will by-and-bye put forward their claims. Why should they not whenever they feel the effects of t foreign competition? They have as good a right to a pull at the pagoda-protection tree as the sugar refiners, the shipbuilders, .and the shipowners ...

... Civil Service under athe competition system, of whom 111 are still in Ithe service, 15 have died, and 6 retired (ride The Indian Civil Service, 1880, by A. C. Tug Ben. ?? In regard to the charges of inabilitl to ride, dance, and control the destinies ...

... Saturday expresses the same wish, emphasises the need of them, and shows clearly how comparatively worthless bursaries are when clogged with conditions that remove them l from the category of rewvards of merit. Eleven years ago this subject was brought prominently ...

... opportunity of express- ing its opinion. There seems to us no par- ~t~aular Mas why the last days of the: session should be clogged with a measure I that Lord Hartington must feel can hardly be passed unless the session is to be indefinitely l prolonged ...

... plans for the restoration of St Leonard's Parish Church. ?? ?? Scotch exhibitors were highly successful in I the carcase competition at Smithfield Show yesterday. In the cattle section they took six of the nine prizes offered. . ' A public meeting wsas ...

... f or two cheddar beheoso,netuseder5Slb, lot prize, silvercens; 2d, barometer lpresented by Sxr . Collins, merchast, Cstle-Danc.lcs); 3d, il o:4th, Li; 0th, lies(givenlby the socierol. 163 ostrics-) -1st. J. C. Ce~iieinebams of ,Dueragit: 3d, James YAdam ...

... guaranteeing to them ?? - at producers-ake security in the open markets ie of the British Empire, against the State- to aided competition of such other bounty- 2e- sg countries as may refuse to become- le-parties to the Convention, pending the, ai-adhesion of ...