... (Frost the Pall Mall Gazette.) C(ectsis puits45, a man who can perform the grasshopper ?? is a peculiar sort of jump, in which we start from the squatting position, stretch the body during the leap, and come down again into the squatting position, is of course by so much the superior of a man who cannot. But there are not many professions or trades in which advance- ment or affluence may be ...

... EXTBAORDINARY DESTRUCTION OF FATAMI PROPERTY BY FIRE. (From tle Scot-man.) The numerous destructive fires that have recently occurred on farm-steadings in this and adjoining ! counties are now exciting much attention thrnygh- out the district. Commencing with Friday the 28th of last month, we have to recall the occurrence on that day of a disastrous conflagratiun on the farm of Harelaw, ...

... [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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... PAISLEY MUNICIPAL ELBETINS3. FIT WARUD. The annual meeting of the electors of the f irst Ward was held in the School Room, head of George Street, on Wednesday night, to nominate candidates to represent the Ward in the Council. Mr John Reid, the convener, was in the chair. There was a good attendance. Mr MoBtarsoy, George Street, in some lengthened remarks, strongly condemned the Town Council ...

... I LATEST NEWS,-j HEXRAD OFFICE, Friday Momeve. itTELEGRAMS BY SPECIAL WIRE. FAILURE, OF A CANADIAN BANI. The Commercial Bank of Canada has stopped pay- ment, owing to a large loss in connection with 'the' Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad.: With a view to cover the sum due from the railwaycompany, it was recently determined to reduce the shares from 100 dollars to 60 d6llars each; but this ...

... ! BaYr OBDINARF. TELEGRAPH. 'THE LOMAN INSURRECTION. (REUTEES TELGRBAMSJ Rowe, Oct. -2L . - The insurgente were defeated on Saturday and Sunday at Verdli, Parnese, 'nd Valentino. Many Garibaldian officers have bebn arrested here. It is said that they were provided with Englishgassports. ! .. ?? Oct.22. Some'of the gates of the city are closed as a mili- tary precaution; others are open from ...

... THE FATE OF DR LIVINGSTONE factor ~ ' . . . The following is the full teat of the letter saitte, by Mr J. S. Moffat respecting his brotheruwlaw, Dr Livingstone: Claremont, Septeraber 17, 197a Sirs, -People are incessantly askin' me whtther I have not given up all hope respecting Dr Id stone. There appears to me no necesity for us to make up our minds or the subject at pr eLq. put off ...

... THE SORROWS OF LOUIS NAPOLBON. (From the Saturday ueview.) Sorrows seldom fail to come, but they sel- dom come in the way that seems beforehand most natural and most easily to be expected. His enemies long ago prophesied that Louis Napoleon would meet the fate he deserved. He wouldbeproperlypunished forhis atrocious cougp d'etfat, for all the miseries he has inflicted on private families and ...

... THE EXAMINATIONS BY THE GENERAL I COUNCIL OF Pl'ROCURA1TORS OF SCOT- i LAND. IIA Practitioner, writing to the Courzant in re. fereuce to the Generall Council of Frocurators of Scotland, ?? body, including tventy-three local Faculties, representing eleven hundred practi- tioners, was constituted by their general consent with the main object of raising the standard of com- petencyinthe ...