... POLICE COIIMISSIONERS. A meeting of the Police Board was held on Monday Dean of Guild in the chair. .-h PRSsENT--Sheriff Watson, Messrs Mlatthews; Bisset, Ness. Sherar. Calder, Nets s 0e, Spa XkSutherlaidA.C. Matthew,B Byres 4l*Hare and Gray. ,, STREET CLEANSING ON SABBATH. The DEAN tif GuILD reported verbally, gnbehalf cifthj Street Committee, that the recommetida ton of the Be0adt in ...

... (Rican the Stanurtcc-c.) Ir were doubtless too much to expect of a 'Ministry five years in a office, and car lego the system of a preceding Ministry four t years before them, to tell of all the evil consequences of nine I years of eisrule-cf incomes declining at the rate of nearly three a millions a-year for the latter of the nine years-of raw materials Ni consumed in the inverse ratio of ...

... FIRST D)IVISION.-WF1)NE4sDAv, June 20. of t was a. . MA\CKENZIE V. MACKENZIF ANDi OTHERS. the This was a reel-timing- note fur Colin Lvon Mackenzie, fact heir of entail in po~sse'-'iOn of the cntalws of Easter St co, Martin's alid Drumea1C~ddes1, inl the counties Of Itos ndthe Cromiarty, in an action at his inlstance against the cd trustees of the 'late Colin Mackenzie of Newball and I others. ...

... I HUNTLY SMALL DHBT COURT. Tq---. - -., Court was held inestiv The quarterly Small Debt Court was held in Zt! Stewart's Hall, Huntly, on Monday afternoon-Sheriff 20, Comrie Thomson presiding. There were 11 oases on sti the roil, but only 4 came up for hearing. at; TH. PAROOHIeAL BOARD ATID THE PETTY CUSTONSI. set George Gerdon Macpherson, inspector of poor, on be- sti half of the Huntly ...

... Tam members of e Presbytery are placed in a peculiar position in the graver cases of discip- t line. In civil and criminal courts the respective s functions of the judge and the public prosecutor t are very distinct and set well apart. But the 1 jPrcsbytery is public prosecutor, judge, and Y jury-all in one; and over and above has to t pay the cost of the whole proceedings out of the h pockets ...

... MI1SCELLA1EOUS MARKETS. STONEHAVEN PROVISION, Thursday.-There was a sniall supply in this market, which sold readily. Butter has fallen in price, but eggs are still rising. The following are quotations:-Beef, per lb., 8d to Is 2d; mutton, do., 9d to 10d; porkdo.,od to8d; butter, do., Is 2d to is4d; eggs, per doz., Is Gd to s 8d; potatoes, perpeck, la to Is 4d; fl'ur, fine, Fer stone, 2s Gd to ...

... At the Sunderland Police Court on Thursday theM mageestretes were occupied for some three hours in the investigation of a, singular case, in which Mr John~ 101 Monicy, assistant to Dr Mordley Douglas, was suns- msoned as the putative father of Elicabeth M'Kay's -n child. Mc rSheplserd appeared for the complainant, andi~ Mr H. liitson for the defendant. The case was one of y an unusually ...

... I POSTPONEMENT OF ACTION BY S-RVIA. BELGRADE, Thursday. Orders have been issued for the re!ll of some of the troops on the frontier to the interior, and unless lussia gains some decided success before the middle of Novem- ber, active intervention will be definitively postponed till spring, a sufficient force alone being left to watch the frontier. In the War Office a special department has ...

... B NFF CO OPhR V:'IVE COMlI'ANY. . A t f Alld .\ . >.. 7 ]; .[X8 .? h0 th' \, l .N l', 'II IIT1 1A ; T'hel shlireililders of this Cninpaur bold thli, a'tlltt italln ' clII, t Wedniesday evenilng--Mr 1W. P]ratt, tGle wesi'iemt lf thic complnlily, in thc chlair. Tile report 'if the tralltiMtle si: tMit mitted, and sbslved tha t the diruettris would bc al,ie tW nay t'i . emitbers at ...

... E PROFESSOR.SMiTH'S CASE. MR SLOAN'SCALL. .fThis (rev.- Courit met yesterday-Professor Salhusond, mnoderadtor. 'ME SLOA'N'S GALL; q On the mninacteso0flast mieeting 1l~eing read, ad Mr Banstnemoved that the following be inserted to after thelinoaticene'of the Glasgow deputatio n :-'When 51, one of the ehensmissionlers ewAB iddiesiing thte Preeby- itey, and, entering upon. the meris wa pedn or ...

... THE WHIITECHIAPEL MURDER. RELY the law's delays might be quickened in minal trials in Engl nd, with somne saving to the .?btic cost and the public patience as well. The MNborue trials were examples of the relative propor- wD which subsists between the duration of a lawsuit wii the lengtl of the litigant's purse, and of even a 'aiminal trial and the purse of the prosecutor. 'it ho-ewver great ...

... ABERDEEN FRBEE PRESBYTERY. 1 ] - . - I $, I, PROFESSOR SMITH'S CASE. t - . t r This Presbytery met yesterday to resnme considera- II tion of the libel igirinst Profceor Smith-Professor t Salmond in the chair. f TERTIO -IGNORING DIVINE AUTHORSHIP. t The Presbytery took up the third partioular in the |, Chronioler makos to the old narrative consist partly of - statistienl lists (1 Chron. xii.) ...