... :EGISTRAR-iGENERAU'S RETURN& The weekly return of births, deaths, and mar- riages in. the eight principai towns of hcotland for .the week ending Saturday, Mlarch 13, saye.- The death-rate in the eight principal towns during the week ending with Saturday the 13th March, iSSO, was 23-7 per thousand of estimated popuia- tion. This rate is exactly the same as that for the corresponding week of ...

... A TERRIBLE TALES OF THE SEmA I . - .REE BDATS WITHOuUT MOD AND WATEs An official inquiry into the loss of the barqut Ulster, of St John's, New Brunswick, was con- cluded at Liverpool on Saturday, before the Sti- pendiary Magistrate, assisted by nautical assessors. The inquiry revealed a terrible story of hardship and privation. The Ulster sailed from St John's on the 29th of January last, with ...

... TlVERPOOL VICTORIA LEGAL .VRIENDLY SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society was held last week in the Hope Hall, LiverpooL 3Mr John Jones, London, chairman of the society, presided, and amongst the gentlemen present were Messrs ?? B. Wetherill, Bradford; J. F. J. Dabbs, the newly-appointed agent of the company in Glasgow; A. Bellamy, WLeffield; Henry Lartitt, Manchester; J. J. Carrigg, ...

... PHE WEATHERL-AP=13. CfloXoLGAL o01c70 wONT. ' Pressure at present increasing slightly over Ire- land, England, the east of France, North Germany, Denmark, and the south of Scandinavia, but is falling over the Bay of Biscay, as well as over Sco- X land and the north of Norway and Sweden. The highest readings are reported from the Baltic, and comparatively low barometers to the westwards of ...

... :: . . M - IMhOWN CONVICTED Or CosNTAVENTION or I FACTORY Ac .-Mr Johnl MNab? Midtonmfeld B ieaihflde Rowiwood. parish of Locswir4noch. ap- I penred before Sheriff Cowan at Paisley in teo ?? Court ?? acknowledged that on J 20th Arch last there *ere 14 persons ?? in the wdrks ?? by his fian Stter giatutory hours. 'The c as waerbrdtght up at the instance of rt W. :E4 Sto-s ' Ispector of ...

... ?? firrallk FRIDAY MORNING, AiRfL 16. The declaration of the results of the elections For South Lincolashire and County Cork closes l the Parliamentary roll so faras regards England ehnd Ireland, and only three more members have to be returned from Scotland. The great revnl- sion of political feeling has had no noticeable 2ffect on the constituencies whose polling is announced to-day. Two ...

... REDUCTION IN NUMBER OF PTUBLIC-HOUSES. ; DPUTAIOZCS TO THE MAGISTRATZ& Yesterday afternoon a number of large deputa- ! tions waited oa th9j Lord Provost a~d Magistrates in the Council Chambers, and presented memorials praying for a reduction in the number of public- houses. Lord Provost Collins presided, and there were ?? Waddel, Ballie MacBeau, ! Bailie Thomson, Baulae Laing, Bailie Farqni4sr ...

... ' : THE EDINBURGH AND ST ANDREWS -UNIVERSITIES. The polling for the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews opened yesterday morning. The proceedings take place in Edinburgh at the Library Reading.Room intheUniversity, where the votes axe recorded at three tables, presided over by -Mr C. J. Guthrie, advocate; Mr Alex. Blair, advocate; and Mir Robert Bruce Johnston, W.S, as pro- Vice ...

... I THE PROPOSED CONPFEENCE. MR GOSCREN'S MISSION. (REUTs-'s TELrORA5:F.) Berlin, May 22. Accordfng to reliable intelligence, an identical \oWte of the Powers will be sent to Constantinople in the course of the next few days calling upon the Porte to settle the Armenian, Montenegrin, and Greek questions. Upon the reply of the Porte to this joint summons will depend whether a supple- mentary ...

... TB LANATKSMRE BUINERS AND TIM. I PROPOSED REDUCTION. 1. mass meeting of the miners of Lanarkshire was held in a field atUddingstonyesterday. Some 3000 men were present, sad Mr. A. F. Russell was called upon to preside. The C qrAN said thev were no doubt aware that they had been called upon to meet in their thousands on account of the intimation which had been made through the press that the ...

... RELIGIOTUS EQUALITY MEETING AT AYE. A conference and soiree of al those favourable to religious equality was held in the Queen's Rooms, Ayr, last night, under the auspices of the South Ayrshire Disestablishment Association. The Rev. George Copland, Ayr, occupied the chair, and on the platform were the most of the Dissenting clergymen of the town, and several fromn the surrounding district. In ...

... ,et.. REPOR3T OF THE IRISH LA2I@D COMNniISSION. The report of the Royal Commiselon en 'Iworking of the Irish Land Laws is a dcw:s Iimportant in itself, and so likely to in t Iopinions, of a barge section of the c~omrunsty, that we need offer no excuse for calling futher ½eI Ition to it.L - It is impossible to gv Iabstract of it in the brief spare ittour C' hut e prposeto give some account of- ...