... EXPLORATIONS EXTRAORDINARY! on, THlE SOURCE OF THE MOLENDINAR ALD TEE ORIGIN OF MAN DISCOVERED. (BY OUR RAMBLING REPORTERI [ENta Bene.-The following paper was intended to have been read at the recent meeting of the British Association in Dundee, but owing to the arduous nature of the undertaking, the account waS not com- pleted in time.] The intelligent reader does not require to be in- formed ...

... CLYDE sHIpBUnIDING. T'he following vessels weie.launched during Sep- temRober, 1Din & Co., Port-Glasgow, the He.len 'rns, an iron ship of 903 tons, for the AIbion Shipping Co., Glasgow; for the Glasgow and Ran- goon trade. -- ?? . By. Barclay Curie & Co. ihiteinch thea Der- went, i iron Larque of 600 tons, for W. 1: TindsA, By Barclay, Curie & Co., Stoboross, the Greats, an iron screw-steamer ...

... LANDLORDS AND Houns FAcTo,'A qsmA~ioox._ On Priday night a meeting of landlords and house factors was held in the Mlechanics'fll-MlrGeorge Arbuckle presiding-at which it was agreed to form a House Proprietors and House PactersiAssociation in Greenock. Acode ofurulessimilartothooeadopted by the Glasgow Association was read aid adopted Mr John Gillespie was appointed secretory, SCREW STEaMEn TIC ...

... - 0 AS?uLT AT Bisasor'oi-;,James Mullen, Hugh Morris, and Mark Dangan, labourers, Bislhoptoni .were charged at the Justice of Peace Court, on. 1Thursdky, before Alex. Pollock, jun., E6Q.,' with Whkaving7 un tbe l9th instl., assaulted Bugh-Wfrndewar,i carpenter, Dunmbarton, Gilbert Currie, innkeeper, Bishopton, and Catherine Currie, by striking MlIndewar with their fists and with a poker, ...

... I RAnWAY VITSASTER NEAU LARBERT. I A O0)0D TRAN UPSET. A serious disaster occurred on Saturday moriang, between the hours of four and five, on the Cale- donian Raiway, aboutsa mile and a half to the north of IArbert Station. A North British goods train, consisting of twenty four waggons, left Stirling aboute four o'clock for Larbert, and had proceeded all right till nearly opposite Torwood, in ...

... - To the Bd2lor of the Glwgow Sead. N.S. Savings Bank, Glasgow, 23d October, 1867. Sran,-Awxiter on friendly societies in Gocid Tords, says that there are few ways in isliftithoe who wish to be benefactors, whether they are conductors of the press or private citizens, could ?? of greater. service than by giving publicity to the financial con. dition of these %ocietles in their own ...

... ITHE NOVEMBER MTEORIC SHOWER. In the course of a lecture on Meteors and Meteorites, delivered last nighf to the Greenock Philosophical Society, Mr A. S. Herschel drew at- . tention to the great shower of meteors expected to, occur on the morning ?? '14thof.fyext month. We make the feol-,v: e nxtracf with reference to the ~ adaof -bib zy:ioi-in the expeqtjd tsower . .A h ?? df th6e-opember ...

... THE NON-FE-NIAN IRISH. A correspondent, who sends us (the Pall Mjal7 Qazette) his card in due form, addresses us in the following terms:- The Daily Telegrasphs says- At no timue have the lower class of Irish found Much f3xour izom the poorer class of English, and the weant of syr. pathy might easily b' intensified into esoethir worse. Let the instinct of fair pilay, Possesesod by every class ...

... LATEST NEWSE I HZnLD Onic;, Thursdoy Morning. TELEGRAMS BY SPECIAL WIRE. THE BLOOMSBURY MURDER.; FURTHER EXAEfATION OF GROVED AT BO3W STREET. This being the day fixed for the further examina- tion of Groves on the charge of shooting the bands- man M'Donnell, he was again brought up to the Court in the prison van at an early hour. A con- siderable crowd was assembled in the street, but there ...

... EDLNBURGH TOWN COUNCI. The Town Council of Edinburgh met yesterday- the Lord Provost presiding. FPEEDOf OF 1HE CITY TO 3IE NDl±EnL!. The LORD PROVOST ?? is a report from the Lord Provost's Committee recommending the Magistrates and Council to confer the freedom of the city on the Right Hon.IB. Disraeli, Chaneefler of the Exchequer. I beg leave to move the approval of that report, which it is ...

... TEE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON DT I -.Y CHRISTIAN DUTY IN TH~-%OGY:V Last evenng his Grace tber -Du4d of Ariyt- delivered an address in the 'City'Mall on th'e above subject. The address was -introductory to the annual course of lectures'to be' deliv~ied under the auspices of the Glasgov otong DMenl's Christian Association. An audience completely, yet not uncomfortably, ?? the spacious hall assembled ...

... WSHAW.- COsrISSzsroNsl' Mxrmoo.- A meetiad of the Water Committee of the Commissioners of the burgh of Wiahaw was held in the Town-Clerk's office on Monday, 7th instant-A. G. Simpsonj Esq., Chief Magistrate, occupied the chair. A letter from John Greig, Esq., manager for the Coltnesa Lron Com- pany, wa; read in reference to the supply of engmne- power for pumping the water to supply the burgh. ...