... IT TEFExIA!T TI'OVEI.ENr rN TTI{. WEST OF SCOTLAND.| vTE StECENT CASE CIF ILLEGAL DILLING NEIR COAThRIDGE. At Airdrie, on Saturday, foar men named respec tively Hugh lurphy (puddler) Laurence Fiunigan (labourer), John Brogan (puddler, and Thomas O'Hare (labourer), were brought ?? Logti on a charge of meeting on the turnpike road, near Tkankerton Farm. on the morning of the 24th nlt. for the ...

... ' I About ten days ago we detailed the total toss, nearkingfown, ofthe Clyde-built ?? Baston (late Lennox), 55 tons (Storey, master), while proceedingdow n channel on a voyage to Bahia, where t was intended she should 'ply along with a sister steamer, named Sevarres (late Leven), on one of the rivers of South America. We have now to chronicle the abandonment of the Sevarres, in a sinking ...

... THE PfOETS YOUNG AND CLOSE. Mr ENbertYoung, the poetrecentlypenaioned, 1 has addressed letters to several of the London morn. I ing papers, which are published as sent by their writer. We select the following specimen of the poet's style of prose:- In your ,paper of Monday the 25th inst., I find that, in total ignorance of my early history, you have stated that I was in my tiine a waiter. ...

... IPPEr1.krAT ELECT1oN COMMITTE I I ?? - ?? Ih The Tipperary Election Committee sat for the first time o~n Thursday. Present--Sir Philip Grey Egerton. chaivmano a fir John eloyer, Lieutenanit Col oel Hog f M r W ate Morrison, and Mr Arthiur Russell. Mr Evean Q C in opening the case of the pesm a tioners (William Pennefather, of Baylnuigan, Tip. perary, ?? of the Psac; and r Joth Dwyer, of Ryan) ...

... THE FENIAN EXCITEMENT Is AMERICA. I . .. .. . . . ,. The Fenians continued veryactive underthe influ- ence of the recent rising in Ireland, and enthusiastic meetings were still being heldin various parts of the country. The Nes York ?? says:- - A' Crowds still continue to gather round the Fenian head-quarters in Chatham Street, where business is progressing in a manner satisfactory to even the ...

... A very unusual development among what are called cold-blooded animals is the subject of a paper sent in to the French Academy of Sciences by M. Em, Blanchard. He states that the Garden of ilants has just obtained possession of agigantic crab, which is probably the largaest ever known. That circumstance, howeverrhe does not consider suffi- cient to warrant him, to come to the conclusion that it ...

... COLONEL BERKELEY'S AFFAIR~S. A circular has just been issued to the creditors of Colonel Berkeley, by the CGommittee appointed at a recent meeting to investigate his affairs, The lia- bilities amount to about £600,000. The only pro- perty (except £2000 per annum) is reversionary life interest in estates in 6loucestershire, Middlesex, and Dorset, expectant upon the death of his father, and the ...

... iSOC1;N0 MUIRU)ER OF A CHILD. sE3TEXCE OF DEATIRH At the Kingston (Surrey) assizes, on Tuesday, Jaines 1,onghurst, 21, a sullen, stupid-looking coun- try lad, was charged with the wilful murder of Jane Fox, by; cutting her throat. This case stood over trbm the summerassizes last year, upon au applica- tion that was made on behalf of the prisoner, for a postponemenb, in order to afford an ...

... A loud explosion which was on Thur-day heard about noon over a considerable portion of Wood- house, was the sienal of a very disastrous occur- rence which took place, by which one person, if she does not lose her life, as is only too probable, wvill be pernanently maimed, and three others were very seriously injured. The scene of the explosion, whie. arose from an accumulation of gas, was a ...

... |LATEST NEWS A caused bythe death of LIr Hanbury VF ll probably filled un without a contest, the Conservative party has ing found at the general election that, even when two seats had toobe filled, they had no ch3nceof vein. now one. hfr S. Morley is suggested as a successor to lpl r Hanbury by som'e of the Liberal papers, In; the meantime, however, Sir Laboucheret son of Lord Taunton, has ...

... THE LOSS OF THE BARQUE QUEEY HORTENSE. FURTHE PARTICULA Captain White, of the barque Queen Hortense, of Dundee, arrived at that place on Saturday, and he gives the following particulars of the loss of his vessel :-He sailed from the Island of Trinidad on the 4th February with a cargo, bonsisting principally of sugar, for Greenock. Trade winds were ex- perienced up to the 19th instant, when the ...

... MONDAY MORNIMGB, APRIL 1. ?? II THE Customs revenue collected at the port of Glasgow during the financial year just ended has been £1,005,520, being an increase over the returns of the previous year of £226,655; and the largest amount ever collected in any one year at our Custom House. The Greenoek returns for the same period amount to £1,457,002, being an increase of £186,543; and if we take ...