... DRAWING DISTING GUISHED OBREIGNERS. Inded it is the weak point of our national hospi tality that it is too apt to degenerate into a process of drawing. If our own Royal Family venture to indulge in a period of retirement, they are drawn with singular emphasis and vigour. If they go on a railway journey, they are in danger of being drawn at every station; if they attend any public cere. ...

... Sao joriv NuaUr,, TUJESDAY MORNING, JULY 20. TGn amendments made by the House of Com- mons on the Irish Church Bill last week will be considered by their Lordships to-night, and ulpon their decision will rest, in the meantime, the fate of this great measure. We learn from our London correspondence that those im- portant alterations which were made upon the Bill by the Upper House, and which ...

... The prospect of a cessation to hostilities amongst the Japanese in their northern settlements appears to be far distant, if we may judge from the feeling prevalent in Yeddo, as great apprehensions increase as the time approaches for the Mikado's return to that eity to meet the daimios. For centuiles not sunb an assemblage has taken place as was expected last month. The simple fact of the ...

... CLYDETRUSTEES-STOBCROSS GROUND To- the Edi~etor of thte glaso erald. Glasgow, 7th July, 1869, Sm,-In your comments in to-day's paper on the proceedings at yesterday's meeting of the Clyde Trustees with reference to the litigation in regard to Stoberoes ground, you say that the committee added that they were advised, on the best legal authority, that the original judgment of the Lord Ordinary ...

... TowzN CoUNOIL.-An adjourned meeting of the Town Council was held yesterday-the Provost presiding. Upon the motion of the Chairman the following small aesesements were imposed, viz, .- Prison, lid per JLi; lands valuation, 04d per £1; registration ol voters, Old per £;l and registration of births, marriages, and deaths, Old per £1-in all 21d per Li-being O^d per £1 more than last year, vwhich ...

... The following statement will show the most im- portant of the changes which the Lords' Cbmmittee has made in the Irish Church Bill as finally passed by the House of Commons:- By clause 2 the disestablishment of the Irish Church was to take effect on the 1st of January, 187L On the motion of the Archbishop of Canter- bury, the date was fixed a year later-1872., Clause 13 provided that on. and ...

... POORHOUSE MANAGEMENT, 2'o the Editor of the Gaiagow Heral., Sint-In your impression of Saturday I observed a letter from A Ratepayer of the Barony Parish, in which he gives credit to tb e City Parochial authrrri. ties for the great diolirution of consuirnpt in spiriti., As a member of the Barony Boatd,. I thank the liatepayer' rot only for the interest he~ assumnes in our paroebial affairs ...

... 'o 'tralbo ?? ---L - TUESDAY; MORNING, JULY 13. ON the motion of the Lord-Advocate, the Scotch Education Bill WAS read a second time in the House of Commons last night. The Junior Member for, Glasgow has given notice of sever4i amendments upon the Edin- burgh Anunity Tax. BillFof Mr M'Lareen, the' object of whieh, so far as we olanjtdgaefrom a mere summary of them lwhioh has -reached us, is ...

... BAVARIA AND THE (EUME1ICiE COULNSEL ~ A circular despatch up.'n e menical Council has beeu e ult YByvJ: the Minister President, to vii1 tuv niatic agents, and ts etuiuibtiio f-l xis is highly remarklable. 1'bhd,-Vitchra1 may be assumed for the prv-tut Ite ww the Gvneral Council ?? U) I- ;iAl PiusX.willreallytakeplicdiu ccU ti' foreseen events initerfere. 'This Gol ) tionably be visited by ...

... There are at present in the Earlswood Asylum 478 patients, of whom 316 are males and 162 females. It is worthy of remark that, while in our county lunatic asylums the number of female patients is usually larger than that of males, the reverse has always been the ease at the idiot asylum. This in. stitutioni receives no public grant, It is maintained on bequests, subscriptions, and the surplus ...

... , - Is sCMhgS rx5PlESS ONtesls THCOMFROMTSL p1S., f yeaterday ) romise Will not satisfy every iu. ,Ieooaspr mi did or ever will satisfg P o 3. ?? are 4ffectd by 1 ties - dn n the Bishop of Toam- r 4 ?? dnA ctet it l Bav0 ^ bt eprepr8ienting the stri eea fra Ireland, proteotcf last a 1t Ole b ?? t° d national FofItslf 11tuture natlioalsint ands muatW, be t nigt 911110il trm o srrcnder. Itwa ...

... I I L .IVE R.PIOOL GOSSIP., I (From our own Coondent.) OIq CAUSE ?? THE HI4H DIBATAH.EAT3 IN THE TOWN. Thursday Night. The large death-rate in the town generally, and more especially in particular diatriobt, haq often been a subject of remark, and numuerous.as well as widely 'vrying causes have been assigned for ibt oriin and maintenance. One district, that of Vauxhall Ward, has long ...