... EXPLANA.jTAU OP DEFECTI'V SUPPLY. We readily insert the foliocing statement by Mr. Couanil. lor Gemmill, which has been transmitted to us, and which deals ably with a subject of great local importatrce From the recent copious rains which have fallen, we trust that fears as to the further and complete exhaustion of the Gorbals reservoirs are now at an end. Mr. Genainill's statement is as follo; ...

... THE MIIAFFIES. - To the Editor of the Bcottish Guardian. Sir,-:.My attention bas been direected to a letter addressed to you in Friday's Guardian, by Win. Ml-aflie, sear., in which he says you most unwarrantably introduce the name of M'Ilaffle'c(Vii, his son, the notorious Michael M'Haffie) with that of Macdonald and Monteith, &c. I suppose every one at a glance will see that in giving ...

... A CHRISTMAS WEEK, AT GLASGOW. (From Fraser's Magazine for February.) (Concluded from our last.) The dinner-lour at Glasgow is six or half-past six, rarely seven. The dweller in any of the Weot End crescents is daily reminded of tih fact by a tremendous rolling of cabs and car., riages about that time. Then there is an intermission; and between ten and eleven r.,i, tho rolling reeommelees; tile ...

... ICHANGES IN THE MANNERS AND HABITS OF a \SCOTLAND. DURING LAST FIFTY YEARSS. (:Frnm i I I f (From the Scotsman.) fror ttim The Very Rev. Dean Ramsay, of Edinburgh, delivered an tion interesting lecture on this subject at one of the Ulbster Hall whc Conversaziones, under the auspices of Bliss Catherine Sinclair, first on Wednesday, last week. We can only give a very brief out-tie line of the ...

... After the close of the Antrim poll on Monday there was a )r riot in the town of Ballymena, an aecount of which is supplied c- as follows by the Banner of Ulster:- leo About five o'clock a dense mass of men congregated about of the Court Holiseaand down High Street, beyond Kennedy's e, hotel, and they shouted, gesticulated, and moved in a way se which told the on-looker that they were not ...

... LATEST'LIVERPOOL NEWS. id_ IPiJ D1 I JI V r!.L-'bI 'JtJ. ~ L TV P. (From our own Corre.spondent.) e . MISCBLLANHOUS NEWS. - .tl Liverpool, Saturday Evening.' An extraordinary sensation was created in Pall Mall and that d locality, in this town to-day, in consequence of the death of three e children named Ellen Davis, four years of age, Thos. Wallace, . three, and Win. Wallace, aged one year. A ...

... *Dn ., I Paris, Thursday. The Neurelhatel question, which for several weels has been a god-send to the caterers for the public appetite for news, is tl now finally settled-the Federal Assembly having unanimously ,i resolved to agree to the propositions of the French and British I Governments. The prisoners will be released, but banished for a C time firom the Swviss territory. The King of ...

... L AT1' El S 1' ? 1' W S. I a rk ?? n - - r~v7~atix E HERALD OFFICE, MoMdONy MAorning. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPIL. THE RUPTURE WITH PERSIA. RUMOURED SUBMISSION OF THIE SHAIl. |The Globe says:- Intelligenee, We understand, has reached Vienna from Constantinople, that upon the fall of Bnushire, the Persians accepted the proposals of tle British Government. The Observer throws some doubt on the ...

... F IR A N G E. (From the Daily News' Correspondence.) Paris, Wednesday Evening The Neufchatel ConferenCo sat again to day. The first pro- t*,col was paragraphed on this occasionn but no inference can be drawii from that fact that the difficulties recently alluded to have been got over. Tae FoxSncs5, Globe, and Stin were seized to-day. A correslioident of the Imil endouce Beige gives the follow- ...

... TUBm uituaca11 mscoksILc. Each (lay this monstrous vessel becomes tiii ier rapid progress towards completion a greater and a greater Eastern stilt. For f nearly four years she bps loomed tin dim immensity over tire river side like some pre. Adanmite leviathan-for nearly, four years she has stood an iron enigma, exciting and baffling all conjecture as to how she was to be got down to the water, ...

... (Fronz 1the. ondon Joumnals of Yster day AMorning.) l ._I a- ?? tile Times.) adi Tle Bombay mail has brought us further intelligeni0 ae to Ba the Fall of' Delhii, and, although those accounts are still meagreat a r. and unsatisfactory, enough is told to show with what indomi- hal table igour and determination tile Blritish troops advanced to occ Ythe assault of the fortifications which ...

... FALKIRK TRY6T. - 1 - .. . 5 . _ .. n . . (Conttulled fromu our Seventh Page.) TiUE1)DAY, SEPT. 8. The stock placed on the ground tlie morning consisted of WVcst and North Highlanid cattle of the various classes-stots, qucys, heifers, cows, young and aged-aud six-quarter stirks, stots, and queys fron the couuties of Fife, Perth, Angus, andI Aberdeen-lirish cnttle, short-uorned, milk cowd, and ...