... MISCELLANEOUSi The Aberdeen Tournal mays I- The ghetland cA.4.lelk- irg threatens to be a fallure, or nearfy sc, this season.' 20,281 applioatioris have been received, and 17,0 volunteers enrolled in the Royal Naval lessrvv, According to the Cork Peuarter, the emigration from Ireland fias begun to decremae. Mr. Horsman, M.P., has arrived at Invereghle for the season, and has already been in ...

... (By a Birmriingeham Emigraut.) Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, June 18, 1SGlt It may be a rude question to ask so proverbially intelli- gent a public as that of Birmingham-but I muat out with it at first-whether it can say which of her Britannic brojesty's Colories claims Port Elizabeth as its owner; Ia it in Australia or Columbia, New Zealan1 or Canada.? and, even granting It can tell me It is In ...

... NOTICES TO CORRESCONDENTS. 4111 Wfsork ilrtnded for publications siumt be aomreescsisass e AC naomes and attdreies of thc writers, not sseeoseis 'i iSP publicatiom bst for Ast itosmation of tdc Vditor. Gorpjicndtees who rst any sprcial valmss upon /its cas munationa must rep copiesof *t1m, aa w q e4enoe tmdar WN to rgulri usisqured wtwributions E. L. Irving Stret-Ve cannot publish letters ...

... We give the list of prizes taken by horses at 'the above show at Howdeen. This list was incomplete at the time of our going to machine last week. Iloie;Es.-Mare and foal for hunting J Reader, Eolme.en Spalding Moor; commended Ruth, W Thompson, Th*orp o Ha, Howden. Mare sailfoal for coaching Veiusw Waoid FCoulso Gatenby Farm, Ca.itle Howard ; highly Comiuesided E 1 Latham, Blacktofl. Howden ; ...

... The half-yearlygeneralmeeting of theshareholders In this company was heldyenterdayafternoonatthe Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station, Mr. T. Brodrlok, Chairman of the com. puny, In the chair. There was an average attendance of directors and shareholders. The report of the directors, which has been already published in the Daily Post, was taken as read. The Chairman, in moviag the adoption of the ...

... Okllaal Tim E.AST.-A. slight cloud, says the Levacnt Herald of the 27th nlt., has for some time past 'been adding its shadow to the never very clear emlnyreanu ofour local diplomscy. Daoud Pasha's three years' noviciate in the 'Lebanon having ex- piXid, the time has come for-a definite settlement of lthe Syrian question. This, as our readers are am aro, is to be done by a special ...

... ' The following description-of Atlanta, which is I taken from the Yew York Herald, will enable I our readers to understand more clearly the value of the stake for which the Federals have been playing with such stubborn energy There are three railroads which terminate at Atlanta-the George Road, connecting Atlanta with Augusts; the Macon and Western Road to Macon, and the Western and Atlantic ...

... - - I DANf2ZB AND B6LAC 814 RAIL WiT. The fifteenth ordinary hilf-yuarly meeting of h ~ ?? WYeatar at, thec~loof -the ^X9 es,resrteuns; /4 T~ho rort, of whh' we efiat ?? published an ab. 6aobc, We btken a read. The Oxt~xnme Its moving it's adopition remtinded the suame kolders that that was the oue of their hlf-yeauly *At wbepartly inenquenc of the peculiar way in mw U their stet ware formed ...

... The week opened with a very breezy day; but the night was thick and threatening, blowing a heavy gale from the south-west, which appears to have been severe in many parts of the North of England and Ireland, where it was accompanied by some rain. Monday was a fine warm day, and harvest work proceeded apace in all the early distriots. Thermo- meter 70 deg., barometer 30 inches; wind S.W. to W. ...

... IHOW SHERMAN PROTE-CTS HIS REAR. I The correspondent of the Daily lfezw, writing from New York on the 27th ult., says:- The stories whioh some of your contemporaries pub. lish every week, and which many of them doubtless fondly hope are true, that the Confederates are operating heavily on Sherman's rear, to use the musty phrase in which Reuter delights, have more than usually little ...

... THE PRESENT AND THE PAST. A The age of Steam and Electricity has a marvellous improvement in the construction J kinds of Machinery, and its application to the prod' at of nearly everything requisite both for necessity 9 finement, as to almost revolutionise the customs of three-fourths of the present occupant? f globe to such an extent, that would startle and forefathers amazingly could they ...

... 4 SINGULAR SCENE IN A MUNICIPAL COURT. At the ciiarterlv meeting of the Belfast Corpora- tion the Mayer (John Lytle Esq.) in the chair, the recent exciting « scenes in the ^nojs committee-rooms m the matter of the Belfast In- demnity Bill were rehearsed m presence of a full meeting, and a pretty large concourse assembletl out- the bar. The circumstances are briefly as followsThe report of ...