... METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, TAKEN AT THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ABERDEEN, ,or the lVeek ending Sunday, 4th A ugust, 1867. _ -_____ xf. I4,Iftide. 102 Fe For the WVeek ending sunaay, eus % spay,, Height of Cistern of Barometer above MCan Ualf-tide, 102 Feet. T di ARO ETEE. Yi1YOI, E f, RAN. ui , nad as N'ine us lie~dO atSims T _ob' tl S. Iz c ~am. P.c a.m. > Hour Indies C, Qu'i~.'Bub, ltd ~ a.m t C s ...

... ] ANGUS AND MEA&NS RIFLE ASSOCIATIOIT. ITisE eighth annual meeting of. the Angus and Mearns Rife Association commaencedt on tle Links of Montrose on Taea- day. During the first two or three years of its existence, this Association held a leading position in the country, andi its meetings were attended by large numbers of Voluntecew who oame from all parts of Scotland, and even from Eng- fland. ...

... i , THE 1st Aberdeenshire (City Battalion) Rifle Volunteers paraded in the Links on Wednesday evening, for the pur- pose, as previously announced, of being inspected by Col. EErskine, Inspector-General of Volunteers, who, on account of Colonel Boldero's favourable report of its appearance, had expressed a wish to see the Battalion himself. The i hour of parade was 7.45, earlier than usual, on ...

... THIS Act, which received the Royal assent on Monday, is of considerable interest to the commercial community, and we give a synopsis of the principal sections. Its general object is to extend the summary jurisdiction of the Sheriff Courts, e in cases where notes of evidence are not required in view of an appeal, from £12, as at present, to £50. The Act is to be cited as the Debts recovery Act ...

... ECET AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. srIs Association held their Annual Show of Live Stock, Dairy and Garden Produce, on Wednesday, 14th inst. The o entries were numerous, and the stock and articles shown awere generally of superior quality, and several splendid specimens from Danecht Gardens (for exhibition) added con- Y siderably to the attraction in the showroom. Thq Judges in ...

... LEOCHEL-CUSHNIE AGRICULTURAL ASSO0IATION. TEE annual show of stock under the auspices of this Is, ciation took place on Tuesday, on thle MArket Staoce It -Craigievar. Tbe turn-out of stock was, in enosstclaseo 3exceeding good in point of both numbers and quelity- tie black polled or Aberdeenshire taking the lead, as usail at the Leochel shows. In the class of aged balls, Xr EnrE, stood ...

... REFOR'M BILL AMENDMENTS. TIERic was somn peril, a day or two ago, of a collision I between the two Houses of Parliament ill the last!] days of the session. But it has somewhat abatod. Thc'E Lords hnld remodelled certain portions of tihe Bill, on I1 lines whlich the Commllolis are not likely to approve of very readily. Yesterday week, they raised the 1 lodger qualification from £l 0 to £13, an ...

... THE New York Tribune oif July 25 says :-About 2110 reprosenl- tatiusc of th ingrallam family in thle United States et lai thile Ister Hlouse yesterday. Amnonu thor were goltlcei and their wives from all parts of N'cw York and Rhode 1,sland, Vesnivait, Massochusett1, Connecticut, New Jersey, nnCali ylvania, Obio, Iteettcky, Illinois, 1(1 California. tir W. J. I'. Ingralain, of Philadelphia, ...

... RAILWAY TRAFFIC RMUBs. W~eek o: r: Linzs, ending ri K, 2,1 - TotaL 8 Great NorthofScotla! Aug. 3 £'728 £1il90£4416 1 Banf, Portsoy& Strath. Aug. 3 .. 1 6 14728 Morayshire Railway.. Aug. 12) 71 '9 i8a The Highland Railway July 28 26810 2840 1774 46 Caledonian, S.NE R..,. Aug. 4 .. .. . 4 1 FALKIRK TRYST, Tuesday, Aug. 13. Trre great cattle and sheep trysts at Falkirk were opened toaye OD the ...

... CADENHEAD V KENNEDY. U.&IJflNfflli'. .V, }.. ._ 3 -__ t - THIS caOe came on for the hearing of proof, before Baillie t .Henderson, in the Burgh Court, on Monday, The circum- stances of the case will be well known to our readers. The a sInspector of Diseased Meat, Mr Thomson, on the 20th March last, seized twelve pork hams on the premises of r James John Kennedy, wholesale merchant, Market ...

... DESPATCII OF FOREIGN MAILS FROM AEERDFK.:> D vSTIEATIONS. Mails Box closes. D_ patc_ _ ed. I A merica.-tTnitedState5, California, and Britidh North America (by EverySatrday. 11.50 AUM. British Packet, via Cork) l)itto-(by U. S. Packet, via South- Rvery Tuesday 11 S0 A.M. am pton), .. tustralia, Van Diemen's Land, Newr South Wales, and New lot of every 11.50 A. M. Zealand, via ...

... HOUSE OF COANIONS-lVedlflesday, A.4y. 14. On thc sitotion of Mr LARD, retarns were ordered of all ves- sels not arieoir-plated building, or ordered to bo built, duriog the present year, and of all iron-plated ships anm batteries bmi't, building, or ordered to be built. DNW WRIT. On the motion of Mr STACPOOLE, a new writ was ordered for the election of a member for Stroud, in the place of Mr ...