... COMPLIMENPARY DINNER TO Stl EBEN.EZER. ADAMSOON. Last evening, AMr Eheblezer Alainms Non Is been Inspector of the city Parioebial ordf twenty-one years, was entertained to dinner in th George Hotel, by preiclit antd I~et Itiltgers e the Board, and other friends. C everc 1 erelid of about sixty~gentleiren. The chair was O~CCOiofid~ Mir R1. S. Muir, (Chairman of the BIoard), Awho supported by ...

... GOVAN 1?AR?CH!AL BOARD. An ad'serned gen eral eeting' of the raroeial B a'rd i3 'Govan vwa held yedterday, in the chapel' of the poorhouse, -Eglinton Street. There was a large attendanac, and the chair ?? W. Wilsdn, chairman of the Board. Tho object of 'the meeting was, to coneider a motion of which notice had been given, to the effect ' That'it is expedient that the perisbes of Govan and ...

... qF 1? -9S,? f _ ,gALI ?? ?? J.'tt paf-per,' ouar midt ourfa.at paper wqebroke ff sbruptly in tbe had midstbf' an n 'i'Alidrl of' thel VW'm :&ricrs'8 IbPolitical and theologiM-otpininadntate. 7d It mighto abte hedo o t eandteas,. he ournalist i ?? west oE the world , the great Republio'would hbe & thorough goine Rad' 320 to Not ?? The gown Crer detests epub. hta lies, hates Radioe, abominaites ...

... EXTRACTS FROM PUNS ALMAN.4CK, :;Trn EUrnyrn SEIISVN-LeAp Year~.. t -A iuB3UBE OPCAACipAne-The skulllr; . TE Lt u NDBB88 : PXArnaD3.-WaahIingon. XpDBBn PAGAxMS.- Saoificiag to the ra ces, .OACnis'o PIOVnLM Ako hay ?? the moon ThE PikX . OiP ,W WEfTrH4LIA-Seiiding yout IIemz habl 9 ?? Irh oxi OLD' PEOlAB.-The 'gameo of croakey': - : - ho b, : _ S BziTflmlT ryOR DE1PZA.-ay the birds be yorntg, ...

... 0- THEl DEAF AND DUMB INfSTITUTION. Y Sixty years ago there was no institution in a Scotland out of Edinburgh for the education of e the deaf and dumb. At that period the Edin- j burgh institution was under the charge of a teacher, named Kinniburgh, who had attained a wide-spread reputation for his talents in this partioular'branch of education. Children be- longing to Glasgow, who were born ...

... 1-11 I I -, - - -1 INMYE CLUB.-The forty-sixth annual . gn ml; eqth di tl.X;'eub' wia .hel~d on-~i4dy ;, in the ;Croia T~gteli, p~ge.P a ?? fia~erbl edecelo ,. ye Iulg yeaz ?? -preses; Mesers William Gilchrit Jameieidbii .,Sndrew MI-William';&s¶L'.ilDr Pfrie, and ames g i a t . Dram:ee'Tnlt~seeton s 'G a gow. iiid iT:r~W ij 'baert' ell1p ?? ?? lAM od, and ,Captai*-Vt3err,i &eo !The; erdu~kie ...

... ILRTTBR.S' To. TfU Fu ?? r Zetters to. the Etditor cannot .e inset ted ezcept e, iehei t~en are aut zentecatal' by the nance and: o. address of the writer-ndg necessarit forvpub- icatioin, but as a guarantee of gooc faitih . - oeondents are 'requested to 'smite only on. one s 0f the pvape:- We earnot undertake to return rejected Com- , ncunicagion& THE GLASGOW TRAU1VAYS.'; SIB,-The Three ...

... I OUR LONDON -ORRIEUONDENCE. MR FORSTER AND THE ENGLISH NONCONFORMISTS, Monday Evening. I HAD recently occasion to inform you of the fact that an important conference was held in .London between Mr Forster and the chief repre- 1entatives of the Nonconformist party on the question of education. I stated at the time that Mr Forster, on behalf of the Government, had resolutely refused to concede ...

... SIMON, SIOGKET, GUIZOT, MIICIELET, AND HENAN. A correspondent of the Daily TelegrapIA who has attended a meeting of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, in Paris, gives sketches of several of the more promninent mem- bers :-First (he says) comes the president for the day, M: Jules Simon, the Minister of Public Instruction. But Jules Simon had won fame as a man of letters before he ...

... S MALL-POX. SiR,-In view of the prevalence of small-pox in many parts of the country, it appears advisable that the attention AND of the public should be directed to the important provisions E for the prevention of infection contained in the Public A( Health Act (1867), which I subjoin.-I am, &c., SI JOHN S LTON. oito Board of Supervision, et Edinburgh, 23d December, 1871. El proci Sections of ...

... MEDICAL bP TOTNOT'ALCOHOL.- The. followein article appears in 'the. Baifial -lm&ical, Journq:_, - : In the' Brih A Zedical Jounaa of fthe 30th September; we wrote as follows concsiing the dutyof nedic- men i4 relation to the 'tmper .ance'movement tok ie habitaln and medical nee of alcohol}:-,,Looking. to 'the. irleffablo misery andidisaster, the wase,' degradation, suffering, anI d orime ...

... - '2.N.EW PEDLAR&S wAe' BY;T6iWdtAot-oh871`4 ohcl-bomes*inb: pperation.wq h .87Zjifo' perpopia~to be llo wed to c4 as a ieedlas- withqot 'a certificate obtainad froch, the ohlef bcer of 'poliee.'of .'the district 'in wihthpersoli applying has rgsidedl for ohe month previous to the application'; and any-one acting as a pedlar withoub aR certificate, or in a :district in whieh he is not ...