... STRAFER ATHEN-rUJM WAUGU9RALI ADDRESS Bly GEORGE YOUNG. ESQ., MI.P The second session of the Stranraer Athenieum Vwas opened on the evening of Friday last, when the in- augural address was delivered by George Young, Esq., M.P. for the Wigtown burghs. There was a C very large attendance. Provost Guthrie took the I chair, and briefly introduced Mir Young, who was E received with loud applause. ...

... INVE RA-AY-THE GAS QUESTION. To the Edior of ?? Glasgow Heraid,& Inveraray, 26th October, 1867. Sin,-I observed in your paper two other letters with reference to the above, one froa AIr Scipio Mactaggart, and the other frem a person .suibcribing himself, or herself, The Author of the Original Communication, I t Being otherwise engaged, I hadn't tinne t., rotice these communications until ...

... OLD TRAVELLEIZS. *VWhen, two hundred years ago, Ir Samuel Pepys desired to go from London to HunItingdon, the first necessity of his case was to purchase a pair of jack. boots-at St Martin's le Grand, a quarter of tlie town famous for those articles of riding gear; and his next care ofas to hire a post-horse. i-ie was not an eques- trian either by nature or habit. Xfhen mounted he was apt to ...

... ~I z - TUESDAY OCT. 29. THE Manchester Commission for the trial of the twe six ?? ?? prisioners in 'that- city commehced yeste-rday.the Attorher General (Sir J. B. Oarslare) 4pein for the prosebisdzi ano 3DibSxe 'ioar, Q C., fortheac'uised. AitirJuticisBlkbkburn) the presidingjiide i itha Cr'and Jpry, true bills ?? a, ?? len audfour ?? th.ecarge against th 'e Tiirggrisonsbe, daled Mi B. Sejj ...

... iL~,IS, AE W ,1 HREs D OrFic, Tuesday Moming. TELEGRAMS BY SPECIAL WIRE. THE PXCITE1%IENT IN ITALY AND' THE OUTBREAK IN ROME. Addresses continue to be sentto Victor Emmanuel from all parts of Italy, calling on him- to act in ac- cordance with the wishes of the nation. Genoa, Lodi, Udine, Naples, ?? have had meetings forthis purpose, and the Deputy tuerazz- his agreed to preside over one to be ...

... G j1.2;'\C ?? ?? 'I fli.A5F O;. GsA.: I:! PA'LrS:-rThs I- THSE ?? or LaIN) IN Noc ?? It may be inter. lit' tc 1nuay tI our readers to learn that in Iev2 p Ji Pnk Nias eoxisbeel by public coup in tile TentiCl otc], GUeexeok, and bought for ..,000 by the lreoflt ?? Sines that time, however, csoideral le additicus bnwve, we believe, been made to the lands then acolledl. Whven the Trust wvent to ...

... ,NEIRAL Z EAW& The earldom of Llandaff, which had lapsed, is said now to have a claimant in the person .of the eldest son of the late Major Matthew, of Bath. Tlhe claimant has estates in Middle- sex, and in politics is a good Conservative. Considerable landed property, now held by the Crown, is appended to the tible.-Globe. The Record is not sorry to learn that some of the Bishop of Oxford's ...

... BY ORDINABY TELEGRAPH. THE ROMAN INSURRECTION. (REUTERS TELERAM&S.) PROCLAMATION OF THE KING OF ITAIY. Florence, Oct. 27 (Evening). The following proclamation of King.-ictor Lot. manuel to ?? people has just been issued in this capital:- Italians! bands of volunteers, excited and seduced by a party, without ray authorisation or that of mny Goverunent, have violated the frontier of the State. ...

... T#. Al2l(HESTER SPECIAL . CoMMISSION. (From our own Correspondent.) Manchester, Monday. The asise appointed to be holden under a Special Commssofor the trial of the twenty-six men who have ?? on the charge of murdering Foli~ergeant Brett, during the attack on the poliecan, on the 18th of September, which resulted in the liberation of (Colonel) Kelly and (Captain) Deasy, commenced this morning ...

... AFFAIRS IN ABYSS I t- H5ORRID BABBABRTIES. From a letter from one of the Absa aptvs dated Magdala, the 7th of Septm4 phe in the Patv Mall, Gazett we, mak thes follwn ox-6 tracts:- The only newmsof intereatt.-hver-to communicate is the gradual ?? te Emperor. e going down hill vermpidly duringthe 1last two months, andshould thesame state of things cointinue much longer we may never see his face ...

... | THE CAREER OF A CLWEj, 1,po9yr) LIN STIRLINU,. (From c= Cores;i ;u2natd About fifteen months ago a mns rnanid waitn Rogers took np residence in Stirling. liegave hi: self out to be a lecturer and teacher of what b termed a, new style of phinographic 'borthaanI. which he said he had acquired in America. He aLj, represented that he had just crossed the Athant: and that by his lecturina in ...

... INHIUMAN TREATMENT OF TWO LIVERPOOL STOWAWAYS. Captain Lodge, of the barque T. H. Armstrong, has been arraigned in New Orleans on a charge of inhuman treatment to two orphan boys, named Thomas Costello and Thomas Furlong, who stowed themselves on board the barque at Liverpool. Thomas Castello testified'as follows :-Is about 15 years of age, and an orphan. On the 29 thof April, 1867, he and ...