... 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 ...

... 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.' ...

... The Bishop of Capetown considers the postscript of a letter to the Tunes is all the notice he is bound to take of Miss Burdett Couttes's call upon him to resign the endowment which sheintendedfor ?? of the Church of England and not for any free Church whatever. Dr Gray (we give the whole of what he says) writes --Since writing the above I have seen a letter fi'm M1r Farrer in the Tincs. He ...

... Notwithstanding the many warnings which the travelling public have received through the press concerning the nefarious acts of the cardaharping fraternity, it would seem that these impudent sorners on simple people still manage occasionally to find victims. The most recent case which has come to our knowledge happened yesterday morning, in a carriage on the Greenock branch o. the Caledonian ...

... An adjourned meeting of the electors of this Ward was held in the Baronial Hall last night. Mr Wm. Melvin presided. The CAmmrAu reminded the electors that at last meeting the nomination of the retiring representa- tive, Mr Mitchell, was moved andeeconded. Amo- tion foradjournmnent was also made, and this motion wras caried bya majority. It w&S nowfor the meet- ing to move aS to candidates. In ...

... I I G 13 IN AI.ANCHSTEXR AND GL/A SGOWf. I The following extract from the Engineer regarding the ?? Gas Works may be of some interest to our readers at the present time:- Reference to the successive reductions in the price of gas in MIanchester recalls some particulars as to the origin and development of the works. Prior to the incorporation of Manchester the town was governed by police ...

... ILATEST NEWSGI H|ERAD OFFICE, &ednsesday Mandvg. TELEGRAMS BY SPECIAL WIRE. T4E FRANCO-ITALIAN QUESTION. The altered position of French and Italian affairs is discussed by the Paris correspondents of the evening papers in their letters date& Monday night. The Globes correspondent says,-A wonderful change has taken place in the situation, and it now appears as bright and hopeful as before it ...

... SI1R EDWARD COLEBROOKE AT -LNA RK . yesterday afternoon Sir Edward Colebrooke, %, Bart., 2.LP, for the county of Lanak, addressed t' his constituents in the assembly room of the Clydes- P dale Hotel, Lanark. The chair was !occupied by t Major Brown, of Auchiochan; and. amongst the j, other gentlemen present -were-Dr Logan (Laniarl4,' V rnle(Crue) DrCaMeikle (Douglas), Drsobnm 0 'Wilson ...

... AIRS LINCOLN'S WARDROBE. Referring to Mrs Lincoln;s rzeent visit to New York, in ordeito sell various vaitable shawls, dresj'&s, asid dian ,ds, thi1atwe-re presented to her durihfi e' PriAdot's lifetime the. Philadelphia cogrespondent of the Timrcs:says the scandal has grown to huie proportions. M:rs Lincoln placed'these goods, which she lu i iat $24,000, in tjeiehands of an aictioneer,' and ...

... 3i R hi ' L A R E N, MI.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. Last night, at the special request of the Edin- burgh Independent Liberal Committee, Mr Duncan M'Laren, MEP., addressed the electors and non- electors of that city in the Music HalL There was a large attendance. The Hon. Gentleman was accompanied to the platform by Rear-Admiral Peat, Mr Miller of Leithen, Bailie Miller. Council- loss Pyfe, ...

... SCIENiS lN.A WOIRHOUSE. Ifrom the Dalya N'ea) The ww^chounre at Parnhayi, near Aldershot, is the subject of a reprt in last week's Loa'. The report is a long one, and it is even more painful to read tnan any of those whvieh have receded it. The metropolis itself has shovin no such example of die- order, neglect, and misery as it would appear is to be found amidst the charming hop-fields of ...

... DINER TO REV. DR NORHAN MACLEOD . BY THE PRESBYTERYoF .GLASGOW.| On Monda6y night the resbytery Club enterta-ned- Dr Norman Mlacleod to dinner in M'LeanasHotel. The following clergymen were ?? Rev. Drs Paton, Craik, Runciman, Jamieson, Munro; thel~ev. Messrs Burn~s, Thomson, Turnbixll,Macksy, Charteris, Macgregor, Simpson, Mensies, Monteith, :Leiper, Hill, Calder, Murray, Row, Robertson, ...