... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPM. III CMIMERCIAL-The railway market was again firmer yester- i day, hat English and foreign funds showed increased heaviness. I I The bill for the amendment of the Compaties' Act, 1862, has n passed the Lords without impairment, and now merely awaits b the Iloyal sanction.o The Daily News says it is satisfactory to note that trade gene. t rally apPears to be improving. ...

... THE GROWTH OF PROPERTY AND PROFITS IN THE UNLTED KINGDOM. A PARLIAMENTARY Return has just been issued which shows for a series of years the valuation on which far- mers' profits are assessed-for each county of Great Bri- tain separately. By means of this document the amount and the rate of increase in rent during the ten years ter- minated with 1865 can be computed. A longer interval of ...

... Fartber reports from the hills confirm the opinion that C grouse shooting will afford very moderate sport this year. Y . The high grounds appear to have suffered more from disease o then the low i ying moors; on the latter, indeed, the birds 3 are not scarcer than in ordinary saeaons, and mostly appear G ain good condition In some places the young birds will; not afford sport for a fortnight ...

... LECTURE ON NATAL A LECTUBR was given in the Trades' Hall, Glasgow, on I Wednesday evening, Oi the Physical Character and Cli- mate of this Colony, and its Capabilities as a Field for Agri- I cultural Enterprise, by Dr Mann, F. R. G. S., &c. i Dr Mann is the superintendent of education in the colony, and has I been for some years pursuing scientific investigation in the i place, having a ...

... 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 ...