... TIIPI SCOTCfI EDVCATIO N BILL. Wehv eeved Is copy of tte ?? Schools '(cutll) h ill r hich was intrd,luo-d into the House vi lrdsbY te fice of Ar gyi1 oil Thursda.y evenl- injg ia~t. ,i-s Grae reioa rg ol ?? hath aist reading were rep iteod in full in our cslumll> ut, as thle sobjoct is anu jmlortillt one, si abstract of the bill itseil may not be uninterestinlg to our reader The preamble bears ...

... ;! HE VOLUNTEER CAPITATION ;GRANT | (From the meids.) ' The best friends of the Volunteers mustirelret the ?? in which the Force has been placed by its renewed demands on the Exchequer. We shall not prejudge thddase by describing the present claim as unjust, but it id certainly unseasonable and it comes in the least acceptable of fashions. §omething, of course, is fairly due to the Volunteers ...

... S. To the Editor of the Gfavolo Herald. Glasgow, 14th January, 1869. SIR,-I vwas gratified to find that tberecent letters in the Herald as to Early Steam Navigation have led Mr James Steel, ef Liverpool, to give, in your impression of the 1st instant, an interesting ac- count of a trial made by the late Mr John Wood, shipbuilder, Port-Glasgow, with a screw in the pro- pulsion of a ship's ...

... GRE ENO CK. Tow,, Coi_'cul,.-A rmeeting of this Cistocil was again convened yesterday, but there not being a quorurI of members present, the Lusiness was again adjourned, MIesne;G OF FacULr.T o' PaocuaATOr's.-The annual meeting of this Faculty was held ia the Sheriff Court Hall ?? James Turner in the chair. Some dircuasivn took place upon. a pro- posal to re-elecr Mr Yuille Dean of Faculty, ...

... I-T ALABAMA CONVENTION. i .-,vroul the TiEmes} !Ehe Gdecsifi~OWf the Foreign Affairs Corn- 'etteei6fUtho'enited States Senate on the sBi] Algais Clairis.;onvention has been coim- ba d to e Senate, and the first question in ?? at will the Senate do now ph; that it has received the report. Two courses sue are open to it. The Senate may at once accept hai the recommendations of the Committee and ...

... SHEuRIFF CRIMINAL COURT. -Robert Campbell, slater, Paisley, Was arraigned yesterday, before Sheriff Cowan and a jury, charged with having, on the othJunuary, stolen about nine pounds of sheet. lead from the roof of the tenement 33 Glen Street, and with having, on the same day, etolen four pounds, or thereby, of lead from the roof of the tenement 34 Glen Street. Ho was likewise charged with ...

... SIR WILLIAM HUTT, MI.P., ON STRIliES- The Eight Heon, Sir W. Hutt, M P., delivered his annual address to the Gateshead Working Men's Club on Thursday evening, and thus referred to trades unions and strilces:- I should approach this question with very great uneasinese, and with very great distrust, if I were going to pronounce any judg- ment between the two parties to the dispute. But I am not ...

... THE GREENHEAD StBREIET hIMPROVE. MENT. To the Editor of the Glwsgow Herold, RESPECTEDFRtIEND,-Bb kind euough tgallowre, in a few words, to co-rrect an error in the paraurph in to-day's Herdd , headed The Greenhrad Szrtn lmprovenment, where it is stated that 'theE 'or. n~ittee of Council and a deputatioln *f the V4ilive Committee have agreed that the propoisal iio tbelJ, ehall be substituted ...

... The Cashier of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary re- qucets us to acknowledge receipt of the following contributions for the past year:- From the employvs of Messrs- Virtue, M'Oallum & Ramsay, EHoward St., .6 0 4 TheAvonhead Coal Co.,Avonhead Colliery, 2 4 0 Colville& Gray, Clifton Works, _ ?? 5 9 0 D. Swan, Jui., & Co., Maryhill, ?? 3 3 0 Wm. Black & Sons, Stanerigg and Airdrie- bill Colliery. ?? . ...

... I THE WESTERN PARK, HILLEEAD. A notice appears in our advertising columns to-day regarding the intended formation of a new suburb in the Hillhead district by the opening up, for build- ing purposes, of that fine property on both sides of the Kelvin, immediately to the west of the bridge on the Great Western Road. The locality is already a favourite one for residence, and is yearly becoming ...

... BESPECTABLE PAWNBROKING. (From the Spectator.) It was Lord Palmerston, ewe think, who de- fined ?? dirt as useful matter In the wroang place. It wvas rather a rash definition, for it would seem by the curiously rapid suc- cess of a funny little 2d weekly paper, called the E3xchani'ge oancd Hart, which within the first half-year, we believe, of its publication, was able to guarantee to its ...

... PAROCHIAL BOARDS AND THE VALUA- TION OF RAILWAYS. MEETING OF rOOR LAW DEPUTATIONS, A meeting of representatives from Parochial Boards of parishes in which there are railways for the purpose of considering the state of the law re. garding the valuation of property, and particularly the position of Parochial Boards with reference to deductions claimable byranlway companies under the 37th section ...