... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... BY ELECTRICOTLEGR&PHI. I0 COisirEROLIL,-ThiO TPnint sips-It is understood that the re- o cent stastessiit frost Madriil that the Paris Bourse has heel) itt- reedly officiallyv opesled. for Spanisic certificlates is erronouas. Tut Hlerald remarks there is evidently a strong indisposition pIar to sopport foe-ign loans, and the Russia:n 4 per cent. annoonice- mernt lies fallenqlisito fl it 11005 ...

... CADENHClEAD V. KENNEDY. ;Oc W hdnbsdtily- Baillies H-lenderson and Donald, and Mr I rM1orice, Assessor, on the belnch-formal decision was given 1 - ill this Case hch WAviki s argtued before Baillic Hcnderson ol on MIondUay week. M t cWlluty Nvas filed 2s Gd for ettli of the twelve hams, and expenses, £7 ls. Some discussion took ! place as to the oxpenscs-Mr Cadenlhead contending that lie was ...

... 3 MR TELFORD'S plans of Harbour extension in 1831 5 tand 1834, Were modifications of his plan of 1810 g The former contained a thirty-acre wet (iock, wh1ile w in the latter he confined his floating basin to fc sixteen acres. He was subjected to sharp criti- r cism at the time, for the variations in his scheme, and the excess of his estimate on the works eon- Ji strueted under the bill of 1810. ...

... AIonCday, Aaugust 12. T police Board met to-day for hearing objections to the sYad Leadside S~werrs-tho Lord Provost pres5litn.g f Guild ; Couvener Berry ; the City Treasurer; Messrs nighlt, iUrquhart, Inglis, Donaldson, Istearns, Mitelsell, Ironside, Yule, Garvie, Daniel, ls, M~rWad~lker, Law Agent, and Mr Anderson, Resident EBgineer. SEWERAGE PLANS, &C. The rcovoST explained the object of ...

... THE Emperor of the French cannot move without shaking the equanimity of a host of politicians. He is about to pay a visit to Salsburg, if not to Vienna. The political world wvill have it that the object of this visit to a former adversary is less to condole with him on his brother's death than to suggest to his Imperial Apostolic Majesty the propriety and practicability of revenging the last ...

... SCOTLA ND. At a meeting of thle Glasgow PIresbytery, on Wednesday, a the Rev. Dr Norman Macleod intimated Ibis resolution to tproceed on the proposed mission of observation to India. e The gross lend rental of Scotland in 1854-5 wee e £5,745,000, ndenyassbqutly £6,830,000, being e 11increase of £1,085,000, or 18,9 per cent. This exceeds thle e Engliesh rate for thlu same interval by 5-0 per ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...