... THE ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE POORJ. y Tiiis Association is now fairly organised, and to- it morrow the Acting Committee Will commen(31Ce its work % of dividing the town and district into sections, andh organising Section Committees. The Association tj numbers, with few exceptions, the leading men of all Sa classes and denominations in the city, and the most d influential ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS- WedfneeedaY, Ain'il 27. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. Mr T. CHTAMBLERS Imoved~tthiit thle House do go into Cotmmutesl uipol tile Miirriiigo with ai Deceased Wife's Sister Bill. MNr WALpOLE usOVeil as un OalilndflInt that it is iOexpediellt to liter tile law of Islrrillge which ling existed in this country from, tiue immemorfi~ial wi th regard to dogrees of Iiuidred ...

... -- to ir A SPECIAL MIEETINGf of tIre Police Commlilssion1ss Wats held DI' onl Friday, in the Boar nilolom, New Minicipal Buildings agre -Thle Lord. Pr ovoet presitlirg. stre. ScEI)EUNT: - Baillie Urrqulrort ; Dean of Guild floss;1 thei Conyvueor Mllan; iro~srs Inglis, Mearns, Smart, Di1 Findlay, Dutfue, Aleth, Wicker, Tough, Robertson, filgrl G. Smlith, Daniel, Shirres, anid Clyrso. Pell( D ...

... APPEAL-WATT V. THOMSON. F]isTS cauise has been under hearing for several daysi iu thle fRonset of Lords. Tiso ease, as oner readers will recollect, refer-s to an aetioni of damnages raised by Mr John Watt, jun., Advocate in ox Abcrdeess,iu the Court of Session, directed againistMr SI]criff wri Conniei Thomson, Mr Ligertwood (Sheriff Clerk), ani Dir Win. Daniel (Sheoriff Clerk.Deputo), ...

... MUNICIPAL INrARD MEETINGS. AVARD Meetings for the nomination of candidates to fill vacancies at the Council Board were held oni Monday night. t FIIUST W.UID. s The First Wa-rd mecting was held in the Ceort-Housc, Athene.nin Euildiiegs. Councillor Abel was called to the chair. The CHAIRMALnT, before proceedillng to the nom1linlation of candidates, hoped they vould join him iti returning thanks ...

... PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMIS. LONDON, Tuesday Evening. y The Princess of W~ales wvill lay the foundation-stone of d Readiug Grammar School on Friday, the 1st July. s A telegrami from Sir Samuel Cannikng announces that the e Falmouth, Gibraltar, and MfaltaTelegraph Ex pedition had, Is yesterday at noon, rounled Cape St Vincent, and was only I, 75 miles from Lisbon. The cable is in perfect ...

... IElUIl PARLIAAMENT. l ttSlK iii) ('O)MMAiX NS-ll'titto lee,'Jii 11 M 4 tc bi ll ie t:CIlll eitliltl of dLie lieleficcs [lillI tn , i~i I ts l jit :. stop to alil abuse Which IlaId lect11' it' ceti-tll Witt till (i11tltli, by peVC1tittitg tile s;le i,.~~~~~~~~~~j~I i', !.s bt$IelltiiIChetlliyl:~itlIv hslefi * i a,, -,, ili, ii- tii. r- IIIeet sotlu itt the ilijec- . tt it; mIttighlt agltillat ...

... ENGLAND. Thle Prince end Princess of Wales will probably spend a ti fortnight at their Norfolk seat in July, before going to Scot- land for the grouse season. On Tuesday, last week, His Royal Highness the Prince I of Wales paid a vi sit to the Earl of Fife at Balls Perk, Hertford, the residence of the Marquis Towoshend. His Royal Efighness was received at Hertford Railway Station e- by the ...

... WEDNESDAY, Junel 22, 1870. 1 QUESTIO?'S BEFOURE PARLIA-MEN'T. 111E IRISH1 I,ANPi luLl,, Wi . are againl in the Ileart of tile Second D)ebate on this ix it eninlab IQ mneasure. It is in t lie I louse of L ordsI, landl thle reception which it oxecuts with is reasonaly r itleast is not adverse, aldni Iond Oraiiinore1- stands :alone in opplositioii to thle second reading,. it Camie be fore tile H ...

... rtis- :1 ge- ENGHLAND. thelLi IsillTue the Earl Granville visited Her MIlsjesty at Windsor Castle on Tuesd rts- Friday, Of Ily THE APPROACHING ROYAL MARIIIAGE.-The following day ni 115' notification is published in lieu of that which appeared in tal ent -the Gazette of the 25th October i- At the Court at Bal- The in- moral, the 24th day of October, 1870 -present, the Queen's give t] the Moat ...

... THlE IlRISHI LAND DiLL. !ur: Hlouse has deocided almiost unlanhumously thlat l le' usl-titui is iicees:iiy onl the( relations of land lordl ai IOxi tenant, and that the bill before the i-ouse may lie its imadethec groniid-work of such legislation. That is ol the Signification of tile vote Onl Friday nlight, when 442 BI voted wvith tim Government, and 1 1 onl the other side. h It is anl ...

... THlE PERMISSIVE BILL. fi Tul- Town Council nearly did its best to stop the grog t of the Cominonnity the other day. By one of a majority c only was the principle ne1gatived that the stopping of a our' grog is tbe way to inabe ns give up our grog. Tlhat u is thle opillion of lnillO mlelmlbersl of the Town Coun cil, who proposo to revert to the sinnptnary laws of the v sixteenth coletury. O Of ...