... FRIDAY. -The barometer has risen somewhat at all but the northern stations since yesterday. Ia tfre west and north, however, it has been unsteady, and in Scotland has fallen rather briskly in the night. The reading at Paris is half an inch higher than at Ardrossan, which gives a gradient of 006 in. per fifty miles. Temperature has risen a little over Scotland and France, but is scarcely ...

... e speaker took the chair at four o'clock. TV! -VI CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT. ask f'i gave notice that on Monday next he would tenri il 'Prime Minister whether the Government in- Session Proceed with the Corrupt Practices Bill this T A DEFAULTING STAMP DISTRIBUTOR. S r«Ply to Mr. RYLANDS, bepn1' Y1ER sai(l it was true that a loss of £ 2,000_ had -buim.00*'i?onei^ by the defalcations of the stamp ...

... MEETING OF THR FACULTY IOF PROCURATORS. his ' to TH~~r~E riND TENREsu BIILLS, 6ir.8 An' adjourned meeting 'of the ?? of 1'ro-P ore -curators was hold yesterday, in the Library of the BF Z' Faculty, to consider and, if so resolved, approve bill of (16t) a petition to the House of Commons against bi Lad the Land Transfer (Scotland) Bill, and (2d) a peti- B eSs. dont in faivour of the Land ...

... I THE FALL OF A WALL AT KIRKcALDY. -d ^ FIVE MElN ILMLED. l a -- ?? Y. The worst fears have been realized regarding CI Athe melancholy accident which occurred at te isPathhead, near Kirkealdy, on Friday afternoon, ur ,e and which was noticed in the Herald of Satur. m ns day. When our telegram was despatched one Pe man had been taken from the ddbris of the fallen wall dead, while fears were ...

... -mu . Thursday Evening.' COTTON MAURET.-The market has'. again been very dtull, and prices rather in favour of buyers. Pia Indis MBa-T.-The warrant minrket has been quiet and steady all day, without change in price, closing at 92s 9d cais and 93s lid one month. No. 1 g.im.b., 94s ed; No. 3, 93s, CLYDE CRUSHED SuGaR MARRM.-Low and fine kinds in active demand at 3d advance. Mediuml very firm. A ...

... A Lombard telegram says that Cuxhaven is to bo strongly fortified and made into a Germ'an Sebisiopol A Liverpool woolI 9 broker has absconavd 'with 30,000 liabilities. I The lily water supply of London now aiturnts to 107jO,0,000 gallons. - - | ' M. dGuigat, following the example of other eminent Frenchmen, has pronounced 'himself' in favour of a conipulsory and secular system of niation.al ...

... PARLIAMENTAR Y REVIEW. HOUSE OF COMMONS. BEFORE the orders of the day were taken Mr. Fawcett asked Mr. Glad- stone whether, as ithad been stated that the Government would consider the decision of the House on the instruction to the Committee on the Dublin University Tests Bill, of which the Chief Secretary for Ireland had given notice, as involving a vote of confidence in the Government, he ...

... THE speech of the Emperor of Austria at the closing of the Hungarian Parliament last week has produced a marked change for the better in the condition of public feeling both at Vienna and at Pesth. In the former city the boldness with which the Czechs have again come forward as declared enemies of the Constitution had created a suspicion that they might still be backed by some powerful ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THE Duke of Richmond, pursuant to notice, asked Lord Granville if the Government was prepared to give an assurance that further proceedings will be suspended at the Geneva arbitration unless the indirect claims are abandoned or withdrawn by the Government of the United States. He had no desire to raise a debate which would be unfair to Lord Russell, whose motion on the subject ...

... THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The Times holds that we are bound to be content with the Minis, terial answer last night. There may, it says, be some breach of etiquette, though we cannot conceive that there could be any real harm, ila announcing a contingent determination. However, the middle of next week is no remote epoch, and if we rightly understand the two Ministerial replies, there will be no ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m, I REUTER'S TELEGRAMXS FRANCE AND GERMANY. PAIZIS, April 24.--Count Arnim is expected to-day. He nilt immediately be received by the President. It is stated in Ministerial quarters that the Coqlmt has instructions to give assurances to M. Thiers demonstrating the utter grordiessness of the alarmist reports recently propagated. FRANCE. VnSA! ,crs. April 24.-M. Goulard ...

... STEAM CULTIVATION IN SCOTLAND.—The Scots- man says:—During several years the leading agricul- turists in Aberdeenshire have often considered the practicability of introducing steam cultivation. The smallness of many of the holdings, however, and the uneven surface, combined with the prevelance of earth- fast stones in a large proportion of the county, operated formidably against the movement. ...