... 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 ...

... t~v- .wv,-k -g O . S . ?? A- AIRR1 CE A iA~~N. I 4Frsdyj4h28l shoihtn ightd 'beatfui dy'' te *;;uualy dost-t~ - oltne.;ndms i84hporta'nt, show, ; kplace onthe fast Friday of the merry month of1 1 May. Year after year we have had to record the continued 4p'ogress in well-doing of this association, which on Friday attained majority, having then completed the twenty-first year of its age. Never ...

... LIABILITY OF LANDLORDS TO REPAIR - STAIRCASES. it We sometime ago published an interlocutor by the Sheriff- in Principal, 'Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., reversing one by his *iSubstitute (Mr. Bell), and finding that the landlord of pre- x- mises was bound to keep the staircase leading thereto, and openings therein, properly nclosed, and subjecting the de- I fender, a landlord, in £150 of ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY. Df no 1. Their Lordships met at 5 o'clock. i- [ The Franchise Prisons Bill was read a third time and sm passed. afl y Earl GRANVILLE asked if the Government had any re a- objestions to state the terms of the telegrpphic despatch to lie Lord Cannidg, assuring him of the support of her Majesty's e- IMinisters; and also, to law on table the vote of confidence po I i in ...

... . GLASGOw, JUNE 2. SUDDEN DEATH,-About ten o'clock oik Monday morning, a slater named Joseph M'Gowan, emwployed at the Phieniie Ironworks, while about to, commence his work after breakfast, suddenly fell down and ex- pirecl. Deceased was in his usual good health before the occurrence, and had not been complainilng iii any way. The case has been reported to the ?? authorities. He has left a ...

... THE BRITISH ARMY IN INDI4'I I(Frromthe^ liR Th ^Aein R-;.1 ?? , 4 , (lram ?? Special Correspondent.) d must be confessed that on Lucknow, Ap!l 5. It must be confessed that our position here, so far sit relates to the general attitude of the British army-in India, e. is not, at first sight, very satisfactory Sir Colin Campbell is thought by some to be guilty of great neglect,, because he ir is ...

... GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE ESTABLISHED I :CHURCH. Id MONDAY, MAY 30. to The General Assembly met this morning at eleven o'clock- i-,_1Rev. Dr. L~eihmlnan, Moderator. toe THlE LATE PRINCIPAL M1ACFARLAN. to Dr. MuIm submitted the following mninute, which 'the Z-Colonial Committee proposed to insert in their miiutes, as ) a record of their high appreciation of the character and ?? services of one ...

... (From the Greenock Advertiser of Yesterday.) I THE RIFLE BRIGADE. -Yesterday a detachment of the 1st fbattalion of the Rifle Brigade, consisting of three officers and Yabout 200 privates, passed this in the steamer LadyKelburne, 3 en route from Glasgow to Ayr. e On Saturday an excursion train for Carlisle and the Lakes t *of Cumberland left Greenock station at, 5 A.iu. The l assen-1 gers were ...

... *The following message, dated Malta, has been received at the India House:- To J. D. Dickinson, Esq., East India House. i-s e Matters appear to he progressing satisfactorily in Oude. is A number of principal Talookdars have made their submis- is e Sion to the Chief Commissioner either personally or by their is Il representatives, and the settlement of the country around cc 1 Lucknowv is ...

... * SIR WILLIAM DTUNBAR ON EXTENSION OF - ~**LIMITED LIABILITY.: The following is an extract from a speech recently delivered in the House of Commons by Sir William Dunbar, the mem- ber for the Wigtown Burghs, in the debate on Mr. Head- lam's Joint-Stock Companies Bill-- - Sir William ?? it is wise to allow limited liability in any business or trade, and the past legislation of this House has ...

... FREE CHURCH-ASSEMlBLY. TUESDAY, JUNE 1. The Assembly met to-day at the usual hour. DEPOSITION OF THE REV. MR. MACMILLAN. Sir HENRY MONCRIEFF intimated that a messenger-at-armns was in waiting at the door to serve a document on the House. He asked if it was the pleasure of the House to admit the messenger to execute his warrant ? (Cries of Agreed.) The messenger-at-armns then approached the ...

... THE DELICATE QUESTION IN GLASGOW. To the Editor of the Glasgow Herald. on ?? teetotal pledge seems to be running a parallel to with the Solemn League and Covenant. Its adherents be. to gill with a very good cause, and therefore meet with fix considerable success; intoxicated wherewith, they play the an ,assin the lion's skin, and make themselves profoundly ridi- mi culouls in their day a-ad ...