... (From the GreenockAdvertiserof Friday.) C Tan MoomS.-The prospects of grouse shooting in this in neighbourhood are at present exceedingly good. The coveys in are numerous although not large (numbering from six to eight birds) and are perfectly healthy. They will be strong on the wing on the 12th. The severe snow-storm in April t1: proved very destructive to the hares. b2 HEERING FisHsNG.-The ...

... isa (From our own Oorrespondent.) se. ?? Monday. be The Committee on this bill miet -again to-day itt tmi6lv6. As O'clock, and proceeded with the consideration of the clai'ses eir prepared by the promoters on the subject of the mooring'a in Ate Mr. LOCH, for the promotez-s, brought up a clause~ em- ?? bodying the spirit of the resolution come to by the Cominiit! ire tee, but with one ...

... THE CALEDONIAN AND GLASGOW aIsD SOUTH-WESTERN. truded To the Editor of the Glasyoo Herald,. SIR,--The most obvious facts are often the last to be ob- truded on public notice, and that mote particularly where preceding incidents 'have led people itno the belief that exist- ilg and established arrangements are the best which could - I possibly be devised. This observation applies very strongly r ...

... VIOLENT THUNDER STORM AT THE COUAST. V ivii.1ii' 1LUlUIN`l2 COX .tI nmvi a t Ifr, DU Vat1. p The atmosphere during the last few days seems' to-have o, been densely charged with electricity over a large portion of v the West of Scotland. On Tuesday night, as noticed in oult- last, there was a good deal of thunder and lightning in ova o inriediate neighbourhood; but the storm was not severe: a ...

... . * (From the Times' City Article.) The statement on behalf of the Government on Tuesday night in reply to Mr. Lindsay's question as to whether our squadron off Cuba had any authority from the Admiralty to perform acts such as those alleged in the last New York papers to have been practised on American vessels has been received as satisfactory, since it shows there has been no official warrant ...

... (From the Daily News.) | t On WVednesda3y evening the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor Oitertairie(iat the MIansion House a numerous and distiu- guished comulany, invited specially to meet her Majesty's a Ministers. but w ho were disappoiiited in meeting eitlier the Prime Minister or the leader of the House of Commons. Limrd Derby is, as is well known, laid up by his old enemy I the gout, and at ...

... SHIPPING INTELUGENCE. Queenstown, June S-Off-itliuriel, Rarbadoes. . hubl1in, June 8.-Arrived - Jane Lacy, Odssa; Denmark, Dantzic. Liverpool, June S.-Arrived-Johan, St. Lucia llelle, Charente. Sailed-Uruguay, Lima; B3alder, Konigsberg; Aid, Alcxandria. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN PRESBYTEtRY.-The Rev.. Court met yesterday-the Rev. Mr. Niven of Mary- hill, moderator. The Presbytery was for the greater ...

... ?? A Cabinet Council wovas held on Wednesday at the private residence of the Earl of Derby, his lordship being still prevented, from indisposition, to attend to 8' his official duties in Downing Street. All the mem- bers of the Cabinet were present. His Royal HighI t1 rness the Duke of Cambridge attended.-Globe. t DEATH Or THE EARL or GLENGALL.-We regret r to announce the death of the Earl of ...

... r. A special meeting of this company was held yesterday, in P. the Royal Hotel, Edinburgh,-Mr. R. Hodgson, chairman Lis of the directors, in the chair. he The first business was to give the formal sanction of the d company to the bill for promoting a direct branch from i - Leith, in connection with the main line. After an explaian 'it tion by Mr. D. Smith of the provisions of the bill, the ...

... |(From our own Correspondent.) |t I London, Thursday. I ( ig The Commiittee resumed its sittings to-dayat twelve o'clock. t Id t transpired at the beginning of the sitting that the Trus- i on tees had on the previous evening consented to make a liberal c reduction in the great crane dues in order to satisfy the engineers, who had yesterday rather contemptuouslyreceived ir 5e j the ...

... I ?? -Ar n- -f-nzn + -a;ne' 11 lq An accusation and presentment against the Rev. Patrick Cheyne, Aberdeen, having been lodged with Bishop Suther, a meeting of the Synod took place at Aberdeen on Tuesday for the trial of the case. The presentment -et forth that Mr. Cheyne, in a work estitled Six Sermons on the Doctrine of the Most Holy Eulcharist, had been guilty of teachingwhbat was ...

... ENIOR.TrON TO SouTH AItSTBALIA.-Oll Tuesday, o -it one o'clock, the first detachment of Scottish emi- 1P grants selected by Mr. Moorhousc, Colonial Conmnis- sioner, consistin.g of 100 farm servants, plouwglhmen, u and female domestic servants, sailed from the Broomie- A law on board the Leopard steamer, Capt. Hardie, for b Liverpool, to join the ship Bee, at Birkenhead, whihs t3 will sail for ...