... PAPAL MALEDICurIoNss. TiLE Vatican contains many Wonderful collections. Its I statues and its paintings are the admiration of the ig world. But we question if any collection which it al contains is eqnal to its old collection of curses, of all it tiues and on all sorts of subjects. The collection was p so large that nobody could he supposed to fathom its wv depths, as it is not like the ...

... D TH[E SPALDING CLUB. lTo B1 EDIToR of tB. ABRDEEN JoURNAL 1 Sics,-The Spalding Club being now defunct, permit me to suggest the institution of a successor thereto. In so doing, I only follow in the wake of Provost Webster, whose E telling speech at the final meeting of the Spalding was so regretful at its dissolution. The Provost had a light to ri adopt that tone, seeing that but for the ...

... ,.. -'ANbTUAV'T.HMPEWANG'F,- 'FMTIVAL.: l 0 NewivYear's-Dias -eening, the' annual Tenoperanoe Festival was held as ustral in the Music Hall. The chair was occupied by Mr Paterson, president of the Aberdeen Term. perance Association,' and the Hall was filled to overflowing with a large and respectable audience. Upon the platform we observed amongst others-Lord :Provost Leslie, Baialies Sangster ...

... ABERDEENBANFF AN' MORAY L.I MASTEf' ASSORMATION. - Taz annual,. meeting 'of , iis Association was'lleld -in the GramaiScholupon NeW-yesr' Day. Those present we~e 1Rev. John Milne, King-Edward, the preildetf~or the-year, e in the chair; Mesers M'Hardy, Newmnachar ; Ogilvie.-Keith ; n Fowile, Inverurie (Secretary and Treasurer).; M'Donald, Huntly; Smith, Gartly; Stewart, Newhills ; Wilsoif, ...

... DESPATCH OF FOREIGN MILS FROUt ABERDEEN. II D0STENATroNS, Mals Box Closes. DE5TCNATION5. Despatched. America--United States, Callfornia, R and British Nort Ameic (y0TheATur &. o, British Packet, ia Cor).Thur &it re Ditto-(byU.S. Packet,vi4South- Zv, Mo vd ampton). E onday. 11.50 A.K,. 01 Anstralia, Van Diemer,'s Land, nd stJan. and . . New South Wales, via South.- sd A ampton . 4th Friday. ...

... TUE TRUE STORY, AND THE FATE OF MEDORA LEIGH. Tug Galobe of Wednesday says --Every one who has read Mrs Stowve's True Story must remember the reference to an unfortunate child of sin, born with the curse upon her, over whose wayward nature Ledy Byron watched ,with a mother's tenderness. The autobiography of this so-called child of sin hss just been published by Mr Cheales Mac- . kay. ...

... To tIe EDnITOR of the ABERDEEN JOURNAL. DEAR SIR,-In a letter that looks painfully like an ad- iertisement, the Professors of Natural History and Botany seem to have taken offence at an insinuation apparently conveyed in these words by Prof. Geddes, in his pamphlet on Classical Education :- Natural Science is a portion of the curriculum in Aberdeen, btit no notice is taken by the Rector of ...

... HIARBOUR COMMISSIONERS. Monday, Jan. 3.t Tinr Harbour B~oard met to-day-the Lord Provost pre- C Milling. t PiiESENT-The four Baillies ; thle Shoremaster ; the Dean I of Cuild; the City Treasurer ; M!iessrs Rob at,0 Hentlerson', Williams, Adamoson, Rose, Cannon, S Dyer, playfair, Esesimont, Abel, Gray, Tuiloch, 0 Hlarper, Inglis, Wood, Duthie, White, J. lifine, atul c. Thle PttoN'OST, On taking ...

... THE Town Council have rejected the proposal made by f Mr Nicol and the Minority of the last Council, for the to mutual withdrawal of the Torry Farm Interdict case, ii at present pending in the Court of Session. They are r resolved to fight it out. The Minority, seeing that there is nothing now to contend for but the costs, pro- posed that parties should pay their own expenses. But the Council ...

... At the Mid-Calder Station, on Friday, a surfacenan was ran over and killed4 Early on Saturday morning, a railway guard, named Wm, Renderson, was run over by three waggons at Perth, and received such fearful injuries that he died an hourand a-half thereaf ter. On Tuesday night a female leopard in Wombwell's mena. gerie, at present in Edinburgh, seized another of the same sex by the threat, ...

... Majeal FRAIq' CE. PAt~s, Dec.10, Evening.-It is asserted that tli.tbs -neabinet 'At, is constituted as follows :-MM. Emile Ollivier, Inte rior; Busson thIs' .Billault, Justice ; Maurice Richard, Public Works ; Bourbea, dtfc Public Instruction; De Pariou, President of the Council of taw-ew State; Viscount de la Gueronniore, Foreiqn Affairs; Clement Daniel Duvernlois, Commerce. Mf. Mligne, ...

... -LA AT-EST- NEWRNS.- 5 :1' ' - : . 9 3BY ELEICTRIC TE liEGRAPH. COlrcERsiCcAL.-The Times says-In all the stock markets Ithe business of the new year has opened with buoyancy. a Te English funds yesterday improved 4 per cent. There was great animation in the railway market, and foreign securities, supported by active prices from Paris and the Continent, generally experienced a further ...