... [THE LORD-ADI)OCATE AT INVEISNESS. PPdESZEITATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THES BUGH AN) PUBLI DBANQUET, The Lord-Acdvocate Gordon paid a visit on Tues. day to his native town of Inverness, where he was presented with the free dom of the burgh, and enter. tained to a public banrjuet in the evening. In ac- 1-nowledging the honour, he said-I have often felt very much at a loss bow to explain Or account ...

... PRIUSSIAN STATISTICS Mfr Lowetler, Secretary of the Brltish Eiatnsy ln Berlin, in his report on the tra-!e and cma:ctrce of Prussia and the Zollverein for 13C3, &ivpi-AeCOrd- ing to the census taken in December, ?? the population in the old Prussian provinces emanaited to 19,254,649, giving to one square mile :3800 inhzti- tants. In 1816. the population wras 10,3I9,99. gising 2041 inhabitants ...

... 3313S,0RIC1AT DOCU'M.ENTS -OF THE SRIGN 0? AWILLIAM AND .MARY. PBL t Vyy have been favoured with. a- packet of ancient a ga*ettes and public documents collected by the great- a grandfather of a gentleman residing in Pollokshaws, most of which are in a very good state of preserva- i=s. They were mostly printed in 1390, and the two followirng years, at Edinburgh, by ' the heir of Andrewv ...

... ELOPEMENT w A WDDING DAY. 'A correspondent of the DOblin Erprcss writes that in a locaity called The Seven Churches, about sevenmilesdistantfrommAlone, a welthy farmer resides, named M r B , who -has several *Sonesand one daungter. Two of the sons emigmrted some years ago to Americ, and, bythelastaccounts. received from them, were doing well. The others (twv6 in number) remained at home ...

... LORD bXERBY'B SPEECH JT LIVERPOOL., A.It the layg of the foundation stone oifthe New Surgical Hall at Liverpool on Wednesday, noticednin our issue yesterday, Lord Derby, spoke as follows:- Charities of other descriptions y be objected to, as I know they have been, on the ground that how- ever benevolent their. intention and admirable their object, they may have the effect of encouraging and ...

... I ALLAN PARK U.P. cHUBO, STIRLING. I THE 1EEV. DR RING ON THE P&ESENr STA.TE 5 7.-tODF-TRE U~NION QUJ1B3TLOZ t1 ni with the opening of Allan Park I UnitedjPresby hurch, Stirling (noticed in I yesterdly's-liesid), aineeting of the congrega- tion was held ast might. The Rev. Mr Gowan- lock presided; and on the platform were seated the a Revs. Dr Ring (London), Dr Beith, Dr Smart, Dr fl Joseph ...

... LA- I L - L XA W; . ' 8 NAEWS.0 - .3-. .. . . . I -T X HERALS O I MonG, , rf , TELEGRAMS BY GEOIAL WA.h !_ ?? ___i THE FENIANT OUTRAGE n NAgo, llT.Er. | APFROACHWG TRIAL OF THE 3B150NER. | t Manchester, Saturday Night l The trial of the men who: have been committed c upon the charge of being concerned in rescuing-C0: a Kelly and Captain Deasey from the prison vand - the murder of Sergt. Brett, ...

... lA.IL, WAY RECEIPTS. (From the Times.) Ti, 'tradcre~,uipts Of lailways in the United King- a a.atfor the -week ending October 19. on a:,'kiic, to £775,710, and for the corresoonding- wn- o -1-ar 52, on 12,740 mile;, to £'744,130,, z 7t 1 m~; - i.rease of 299 miles and of £31,524. 7 - 'LuI a are. thje receipts for the pact week:- ?? ~ Milesopena. receipts. i N'1rl. Corn ltea I3 3S 2395 2,333 ...

... FXPENCH AND. GEMAN7 G.LASS>AKEUS . KThe T ie c n itiP bition1 goives, s,,som~e jntaresaetals espetti1geneh and Gemng.glass. 'e says - The Trench occtipy a position 'as 'glassnakers mijdsy between 'the .Itahlias 'and the English, but they seem to surgass all 'ther 'nstions in ,the Iaiitude of their resources, in the miiltiplicity ?? ?? d procees, ad in te beau- tiful 'asiuy of 'the?' resnlia.' ...

... I lTEAT-TME.NT or LUNATICS IN AUERIC-t A ladyresidirg in America, writing to her sister in Liverpool, cives an account of a ball which she at- tended recently at a lunatic asylum. She says:-I was told I looked remarkably well, and when pro- menading the room, leaning on the arm of an otld gallant, I felt conscious of having many eyes lookinig at us-even the eyes of the principal person, the ...

... DEPUTATION OF WORKING MEN -FRO'[ - EDINBURGH TO THE CHANCIELLOR OF I 1. THE. .EXOEQUE- On' Saturday lst a deputation of working men left Edinburgh for London, for the purpose of re- questing the Chancellor of the Exchequer to accept an address of thanks from the working lasses of Edinbugh, fa liaeetion in extening the s'.ti frnge. The deputtion consisted of M r Toa The deputation were ...

... .TWLFTH WARDl. A-m~xe'eti~g of electors in this Ward favoucrable' to the adoption of measures for the appointment uof U a Ward Committee was held~in Blench's 'Hotel, Y Sanchiehall Street, yesterday evening. Dr Johnston ti presided, and stated that, as the result of -there not lo being a Ward Committee, he had not known, during J theeight or twelve years during whichhe had resided I in the ...