... ELLON HOIRT'CULTUlR AL SOCIETY. THE Njnet.'outh Annnal show of thle E lion Horticultural IS Society wee held in the Town Hall on Wednesday, the 14bh fi: cerrent. The Judges Were Messrs Cocker, Aberdeen, snd gi Greig, Parkchill, who performed their duties with very greet ti. care, and whose awards gave general eatisfaction. A large t number of greenhouse and other planRts from ERion Coe1tle bi ...

... The Queen is to visit the Duke and Duehess of Box. no). burghe at Floors Castle, Kelso, on the 21st of August. Ml Thu birth of a son to Mr and Lady Elmna Thuslow hasl to ary been celebrated with rejoicings On the Kintiaird estate. TO a yes all connected with tha ancient family it must he a sauce of have great rejoicing, as this is the firat ma10le hseir that has been site. horn for three ...

... ARE the more illiterate lads here and hereabouts more destructive and rude than the same class elsewhere ? So we have heard it said, but we have been loth to be- lieve it. It is a matter of fact that they are hard upon the heads of iron palings, for we scarcely find any in existence within reach, They can see nothing on which either art or industry has been employed in behalf of the beautiful, ...

... FR{ANCE. v PARIS, Auut1.Th mrs E enie left to-day for tho 8 Camp at Chalons. The Emperor and Enipress leave the Camp 1 t-orwfrSalzbinrg. C toAmRrowfbA 17.-The Emperor Napoleon hats acidreased a letter to hi a. olvalette, the Minister of Public Works, dated August 15, relative to the Speedy completion of certain seine of conmmunication, especially parochial reads, Thle Emperor ex- presses at ...

... Lord Holmesdale arrived at Old Mar Lodge on Tuesday, from the South. Sir Edmund Filmer arrived at the same destination on Wednesday. The Provincial Grand Mastership of Lanarkshire. vacant by the death of Brother Sir Archibald Alijon, is likely to he conferred on Brother Alexander Strathorn, Senior Sheriff-Substitute of the county. The beautiful small estate of Kinloch, near Amnulree, in ...

... THE London correspondent of the New Yoik Tribune thus 0 describes a dinner given by the proprietor of the Pall Mall I Gazette to the contributors to that paper:- s On Wednesday evening, July 10, Mr George Smith (of Smith, e Elder, & Co.), the proprietor of the very successful Pall Mall h I Gazette, gave a magnificent dinner to the friends and contribu- p tors of that journal. The affair took ...

... Aberdeen, 2d August, 1867. |to ScI,-Having read in the Aberdeen Free Prcss newspaper obl: of to-day a letter on this subject, bearing the name of Mr theI Gilbert Scott, architect, in which it appears to me that a most unjustifable attack has been made on the heritors of Oldinachar, I consider it mlly duty to the heritors of that abl parish and to the public to state the trule position of the b ...

... gut Akrttatt Nolm;L .: WEDNESDAY. August 21, 1867. NOTES ON THE NEWS OF THE AWE'E. TDIR meeting at Salzburg is the subject of many tele- grams, which contain nothing. The French Emperor and Empress are said to have inet with a brilliant rc- ception, although the popularity of Napoleon in Austria may be liable to be questioned. If it exist, it is the best possible evidence of Austrian good ...

... A MEETING Of the Central Committee of this Association eWas held ore Friday-M~r Copland, Ardletheni, in the chair. Thre SECSSEARYc then read the following extract from a o letter from Mr M'Comhie, Tillyfour; a. I am eorry it will be out of mly power to attend the meeting of etue Riniderpest Society on Friday; but I chould wish yen to bring before the meeting that I think Air flay of Ellen hoe ...

... WHIEN TO CUT WHEAT. As the harvest is now rapidly becoming general all over the country, it is as well to remind both farmers and millers that now is the time for continuing the experiments which have been made at different dates for deciding upon the best period for cutting wheat. The opinions current in the agricultural world are still so contradictory that nothing but a frequent reetition ...

... I Tnm Annual Conference of the operative tailors of Scotland was held here during the past week. It opened in the Music HIU IIBuildings on Tuesday last, and continued every day till Saturday, when the proceedings were terminated by a gala day and festival, at which representatives ap- peared from a distance, including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dalkeith, Dunfriles, and Kirenibright; Dundee, Broughty ...

... C 5 HOUSE OF COMMONS-Wednesday, July 31. bPRESPRVATION OF ANCIENT DION UM ENTS, Sir B. VFRrNLY asked thc Home Seeretary it he would mndoa- your to ilovise means for the preservation of dnojent monimindts (mey o threbelngig o pe-betrieperod, and seone to1 the erid oftir Roan eenptie of rea Brtainl) which ex-! I jotin ilfrcu pats f te cunty. he on.Balonet stated thatman ofthes meismnts ad ...