... SERIOUS KNIFE ASSAULT AT GREENOOK._ We regret to state that another of those dastardly criee, whiehh4ve becomo too prevalent inGreenock, v4,aperpetfated in 'Shaw -Street about midnight of Moxiday. The life, of the' viotim in this case is now lteyond all hope.of 'recovry. The alleged assailant igffopeign seamanflnamed John Massey or Majizia fativeof Athenos; Greece, and the party stabbed iW ...

... flOTHESAY. .IAnout. TRURT-The usual monthly meeting of 1! Lh iot was held inl the Town Hall yesterday- l ?? Mclajth in the chair. A long disoussion, on 'Dtt ?? committee tat tb sloop Ceres, lretnt lying intbe inuer harbour, be placod beside et bert (ay for a ahort time, a3 an experiment ^tctsabeawsr;ter, was ngreed to by 8 agabiret6. nuo IxbttjiY.eg areed to erct a fence beside the slip :i(t ...

... PAINFUl OCCURRENC'ES AT OXFORD. At the inquest on the body of Mr Robert Mar. riott, of Christ Church, Oxford, hold on Thursday, ?? Cha,. Egerton, under-graduate of Chriat Church said he was in the hail with deceased on Wednesdaj' night who afterwards came to his rooms in the Hig Street, and stayed from seven to half-past eight. H was afterwards with him at the St.'Aldate's Club when he was in ...

... STATIONS OF THE BRITISHI ARMY ON 6TH MAY, 18M8. (From the Edinburgh Gazette.) Where two places are mentiond ties lest named is that at which the D4ept of the I glet is stationed. WEn GuAitim. ROYALENCINEtE101. let, Wincher. Head-Qisarteirs, Chathamt 2d,, Regent's Park. A Troop, It. B., Chatheom.. .ROYAL HORcEnt GUARDS. is Troop, Aldershot, Kightlibarldke. ist Comupy., Canada. 1.ivXGuON ...

... FRBEB. CHURCH. The Assembly resumed`yesaerday ?? Nixon, Modetator. . ;. ; Mr Fraser,; '6f'I`,nekness, ?? to teU111; 1 ?? ; rh ekpl 'dn MiMuAchnAY (ordyeex ltined that; avingm s- takeif the'arrangements in regarid to Voting onthe motions n union esrly that mohirin g he shad gone, to the wrong ?? that' his name' appeared in thie divihsmn lis ans sudporeisgD ?? resolution, wherease dh intended to ...

... GREENOCK- HARBOUR TRUST. The usual meeting was held ?? Grieve presiding. The Pnovos'r moved the adoption of the Harbour Committee Minutes. The committee had agreed to recommend the construction of S platform inside East India Harbour, at a cost of £700. The repairs ofthe old Dry Dock had coit £33014s, The tender of Meesrs, Millar & Brown for the transit shed (£80 16a) had been a~ccepted, Mesrs ...

... GLASGOW MEOHANICS' INSTITUTION. The forty-fifth annual meeting in connection with the Glasgow Mechanics' Institution was held in the large hall of the institution yesterday evening. In the unavoidable absence of the Lord Provost, Mr Walter Neilson occupied the chair, and there was a numerous attendance. The CHAmirxN having addressed the meeting at considerable length in reference to the ...

... TRANSLATh'SIOtN O3 MR. W. B. JAYLOR FROM HAST WIL- BRtIlDE TO KELVINSIDE, GLASGOW. The Free Presbytery of Hamilton met yesterday -Mr Leiper, Moderator. The Court resmned c~rnideration of the call ad- dressed to Mr W, R. Taylor, of' Mast Kilbride, by the congregation of Kelvinside Church, Gla.9gowv, andlaid upon the table at the previous meeting. There appeared-for the Presbytery of Glasgow, ...

... I7 A , -E -.T, , - NJ1 WSB.. ?? . :: , .. I . .LA.T. S.- i- ?? : ; I 'HERAD Omnox, Monuw M og. -EtEGRAMS BY SPECIAL WIRE. ' ESPITE. F0 BARRETT.- (From our Special soceeipendeht. I London, Sunday Night. Late this evening, Mi Jonas, the; Governor of Newgate, received a coemunidatien from the Home Offie respiting the sentence of death on, Micohil Barrettforseven days ?? completion ofthe inquiry ...

... I From the Daily News.) Sir Massey Lopes, the representative in Parliament for the village of WestbiUry, has called the attention of the* House of Corm- mons to the peculiar burdens on land. To do this required a certain amount of bold- ness, for there really is sonm6 danger: in inviting attention to the position which land and'its burdens occupy in the schedulq of fiscal hII- bility. The fact ...

... IS ABLLSITED PRESBYTERY, l&kS5ODI d Court 'met yesterday. Dr Craik -. X at the comntloment of the :Dr Ohartens, liz tbe present Court ret yesterday. Dr Craik t the commencement of the Xthe ?? of Dr Paton, it was it t0o her Mjesty an address ex. ?? the dost~rdlY attempt made in tihe life of his Royal Highness ths ;b and sincere sympathy with the ,Htil anxiety to waich she had Vrlark was ...

... suosa* Wramo - IT will be observed by a telegram from our special correspondent in Londocn, which we blish in~another column, that the Home secretary has once more respited the convict .Michael Barrett for 'the space of seven days. This course, it is said, has been adopted by the advice of the Crown Solicitor, in order that the voluminous documents now before the Home Secretary may be ...