... Thursday Evening. COTTON MAiumR.-The market has been very quiet to-day, but prices without quotable change. PIG IRON MATImBT.-The market opened to-day with a firmn tone, at about Ss cash, but it gr;t gradually weaker, and business was done as low as b7s 9d cash, closing with sellers at that price. No. 1 g.nm.b., 9ls (d; No. 3, S9s Gd. The University Suez Canal Company announce in an ...

... DESTRUCTION OF A COTiON MILL -,DAMAT ES r ABOUT £40,000. n_ g Yesterday afternoon, an alarming and disas- .i trous fire occurred in the cotton mills of the L Lancefield Spinning Company (of which Mr John Graham is the senior, and Mr Wm. Graham, one of the M. P.'s of the city, a principal partner), t and resulted in their total destruction. The mills consisted principally of two main buildings, ...

... ~ .MANYD. Timr. KElRRY EDaCT1ON PerITION.Y-.Thle Jji 'Times announces that the Kerry election petftion!' has been withdrawn. . . .. .. DUtBLeN.-Tthe CtCharge,ofLib'el agaiaust Caid-rdl 2 Culleii.-In, the case of. .O'Keefe v. Cardinal B, CdI6n; an action, by a priest for libel 'ontainedi 6 in letters suspending him from lis fnnetioeej. 2 Baron Deasy yesterday granted leave to plea 2 sevelal ...

... WE~DNESDAY MIORNIG, MARCH 27 - the aitnmul meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of Scotland, held yestorday, aI dividend was declared atthe rate of 12 per cont. per annuhl, free of Income Tax. r .who I~ Claimant has addressed from New- gatoen appeal for help. Cruelly persecuted P as 1 am, he says, there is but one course in that I can see, and that is, to adopt the sug- w geatiain go ...

... THE NENV VICEao(y OF INDIA. I AXn1 INJSW v I~~t) Ole INDIA. and On Saturday night, Lord Northbrook, the newly iea appointed Gsvernor-Gaenertl of ludia, was enter- eS. tained at dinner by the Mayor of Winichester. . The inhabitants of the ancient city of Wincheaster he turned out in large numbers to (lo onouir to the ?? Northbroord being a native of is Hampshire, and a well-respected one., Mr ...

... AJfidS BY Wf - BTL..A Last might, the' large hali of the Queen's Rooms Bas packed in every part,, crowds being turned away from the doors, on the occasion of Mri J. M: Bellew's second- and last appearance in this city.- On the whole, the performance was not so strikingly ?? as its prede- cessor in the same place, awing entirely to the less attractive character of the, programme, There waa no ...

... EXTRACTS PROM PrINOH. TnE BALAK6I 0OaFomOT.-Au American chair. ASONRE PTYWRAPo.-LittlC harleyDilke. Please, Sir, there's notbin' in it I Gladstone, AL Nothing initindeedI I'll teach you-! THOLOGiOAL MENSURATION. - Severe Church- woman-I didn't like the sermon at alL It ivas much too 'broad.' Lively Niece-1Well, Auntie, I'm sure you can't say it was as broad aS it Wvam ?? If l'FO ...

... Thursday Evening. GLASGOW CUSTvOMS REV UuiE. -ThLe following i' a comparative statement of tho Customs revenue at this port for the months of February in the under- mentioned years:- MolthendodFebruary29,1372 ?? £83,786 17 9 1871 ?? 81205 2 1 ,, ,, 1870 ?? 4,544 15 2 ,, ,, ?? 107,:30,3 8 3 ,, ,, ?? 110,133 10 8 GncEXoOCK CUSTOMS 1LVENUv ..-The -tilowis,-' is the return for the month ending ...

... . n TE SAL OF WOODBUrNi HOPUSB;-By a mip. ,bkethe rae 'priceof thi honse andi grolnds: d ?? stated' at £2500jiastzead ofi1 £.46OOs n ,-B~tfisA , Nilas 4$YLuMI T,Me .,number ,.Idmitted for-heweek.e~ndinl 3d garnc~was:-4. a |35;'iiieles, h femaies--btotalX 41-, ' ?? : . ' - - COAL ANt -Row--Last weelt;3091 tons of coal -were -shipped for foreign -pprts,. and 268, tonsi nwere taken.coastwise ...

... I Y;, 6Pi~ T.RiL -Robert toung' aoirr ?? was eohiviet'td, before: Sb'ui~ff CdIVar yestorday, 7,: 'of stealingi a fiddle and 'bobw, rom. his father's Vae -house in Lochwinnoclh adwsset to pridon is, -far 30 days. ?? e RAILWAY OrFENCE, 'The Treasurer of Fhiiiey fl 'Infirmary 'hts ;had' handed him, per W. S. In Glnu~ sq., ~Glasgowv andIlouiE. - outh. Western Railw~ay, l10s Od, sum paid by a ...

... TIIE SMCOCH EDUCATION BILL. PUBLIC WETING All POLLOKUWLAM . y Last night, a public meeting was held in the n Town I-all, Pollolshaws, to take into consideration ,t the Scotch Education BilL. The meeting, which r wvas well attended, was presided over by Provost e Gaameroe. L- The CHATHrAN, in his introductory address, said y he regarded the Lord-Advocate's Education Bill as I the most liberal ...

... RAILlrA Y REPORTS. II PORTrATRICK EAJLWAY CorraNvY.-The follow- t Xing report will be read to the thirtieth ordinary tl meeting of the shareholders of the company on Thursday the 28th ?? directors beg to je r submit the accounts for the half-year ended 31st di January, 1872, showing a balance on revenue account of £6076 is 6id, out of which they recom- mend payment of a dividend at the rate of ...