... Ott ?? BALMORAL, OcT. 17. The Queen opened the Aberdeen Waterworks, yesterday, at Invercannie. Her Dlajesty was accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur. The suite consisted of the Duchess of Romburghe, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Sir Stafford Northcote, Lieut.- General the Hon. Charles Grey, Colonel Ponsonby, Major Elphinstone, Mr. Sahli, and Dr. Robertson ...

... M th DRURY LANE.V Tn rF: E-vrs'G, MACLETi . i~lr. Tl Tal. t, lersrs. Sinclair, hi eal. MelntvrS, and Henri Drayton; Mls3es ?? Sed- gck and n -m . c -..ssca, and M3adam Jenny ?? ?? Ivith re 'THi' GLi.'AJS OPERA. Mr. W. llarrisoul. dC TRINCESS'S. THIS FvEND51, THE TERLPLI ALLIANCE.-After which THE Il'VGU1ENsLT CAPTAIN. Messrs..J.G. Shore &- G. lcey *isses ra vil nl, Augusta Thomson, and -ra. ...

... The 31onilcio, dic Soir gives the following news 1:n (:hete, which, while not confirming the asser- ntat the insurgonts have accepted an amnesty, ?? .- considerably with the other news that they r e resources wlhich they mean to uso for carrying - tic war for months to come. TIL events in Crete seem to be entering on a pacific In the face of the difficulties which recently arose .E:ei or's ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE.) THE most important political events at Berlin just now are the press trials, which, notwithstanding the tendency to Liberalism lately shown by the Government, are still very frequent. The trial of the bookseller Dtjncker for publishing a pamphlet under the title of The Debate of the Chamber of Deputies on the Sentence of the Supreme Court on the 9th and ioth of ...

... THE LEVANT BRAILOAD THROUGH I TRANSYLVANIA. I (rROU A COURESPONDENT.) The announcement was made a week or two ago that the Emperor of Austria had given his sanction to the execution of a work already begun, but not continued-a work of vital importance to the em- pire, and of not trifling interest for England. The undertaking in question is a railroad from Arad to Alvincz, in Transylvania, thus ...

... ACLERG~YMAN ONSUNDA Y LAOR r~~~ I ?? At the Longton police-court on Wednesday a case was heard in which Ralph Parker, of the Gem's Mill, was charged with exercising his worldly calling, as a lint grinder, on the Lord's day, and Edward Slater, his servant, with aiding and abetting. The charge was preferred by the Rev. P. M. Walker, incumbent of Edonsor, who conducted hisown case; and Mr. ...

... THE ABOYNE AND RABAMA PRAIL WA F. I ?? he On Wednesday the extension of the Deeside on Railway from the present terminus at Aboyne to Ballater he was formally opened for traffic. The work of constraction has been finished for some weeks, but an unexpected 'hitch having occurred, the opening of the line for public traffic was delayed till Wednesday. The Princob as and Princess of Wales and ...

... I THW FATAL FIGHT IN WESTMINSTER. l : - Mr. Langham, deputy coroner for Westminster, resumed yesterday, at the Charing-cross Hospital, the in- quiry relative to the death of Edward Willmott, a pugilist. On last Tuesday week the deceased was brought into the Charing-cross Hospital by three men, who did not give their names. He was so dreadfully bruised that even his wife could only recogniee ...

... ITHE QUESTION OF NATTONAL EDUCATION. I LETTER 2. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. SiR,-The state of popular education in England is unsatisfactory, not only in regard to the number of chil- dren receiving instruction in some form or other, but in other respects. Mr. Bruce, BI.P.,'in his able paper read before the Social Science Congress, asserted tbat of the 2,400,000 olileren found in school ...

... t THE DUKE OF EDBURGH AT GLASGOW. I (BY TELEGRAPH.) GLASGOW, TJURSDAY NiGHT. The Duke of Edinburgh arrived hereyesterday for the purposeof inaugurating the statue which has just been erected in George's-square, in memory of his late father, the Prince Consort. He was accompanied by Dr. Lyon co Playfair; Lieutenant Vaig, Equerry-in-Waiting; General ans Hamilton; the Hon. Colonel Francis ...

... Friday, 2 o'elock. C, fad obelvilla'd V twd., REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. FRANCE. PARIS, Oc,. 1-,.-The AIo,1i/fer of this morning announces the death of Al. Thouvenel as a loss to the Emperor and the country, and adds:- His name is so intimately associated with the remembrance of the annexation of Nice and Savoy to France that his loss will remain the object of well-founded and honourable regret. ...

... THE EARL OF MALATESBURY ON THE ARMY AND NAVY, AND BEFOR11. The Earl of Malmesbury presided recently at an agricultural dinner at Christchurob, in Hampshire. In proposing the Anny and Navy, the noble lord said- The great and rapid success of Prussia has been generally attributed-whether rightly or not-to the use of the needle-gun ; and I am glad to be able to tell you authori- tatively that ...