... ALLEGED INTIMIDATION. [Preom the Scutsman.] A meeting, designating itself a meeting of The Trades Council, was held in Edinburgh on Friday night, for the avowed purpose of making certain incidents connected with the internal management of this office matter of comment. . What took place we do not know in any detail, because the promoters of the meeting, under a pressing consciousness of ...

... THE Z ES EUMzI t HIGINW Tat-W7 beam > The ?? of France , .Imperial, with their suits visited Bk e Lclose of last week. The distingm reached Portree on Thursday ad put RL oyal Hotel; and oIL Friday Mr Pu ap them to Mierang. On Sainrday tea turned to Inverniess, aad several tradesmen Were patronised. Besida Highland costume, bought for t he b perial at Macdougall's Tartaa IVi Empress Purchased ...

... AN lA l aORATOR. In 1774, when Madison was 23, we find bhin ral wrting to a Northern friend: I want again to d, breathe yoar free far. ?? , That diabolical, re- hell-coneeived priniple6df'pirsecition rages among some; aid, to their etetgal ilany,'the'clergy-oan furnish their quota of imps for such- purposes. There aze at this time, . i the adjacent county, not ith less than five otsix well ...

... Correspondents arc requested to write concisely and legibly, on one side of the paper only. To ensure insertion, news should reach the office of this journal 011 the evening of the day 011 which the incidents occur. ...

... LOUAL AND GENERAL. L2EDE NATURALIST8'FIELnCLUBANDSgcr.NTIFIC AS0OCIATtON.-The usual cxcursions of this society were aereeably varied on Saturday afternoon by a visit to ,lt=sohirst, flesadingley, the residence of Mr. Washington Teasdale. According to invitation, the members met at I 1casehurst shortly aiter three o'clock. The party included Messrs. T. Dawson (president of the Mechanioq' ...

... It was stated yesterday that the arbitrators under the Treaty of Washington lad suspenided their sittings till to-morrow. The Philadelphia correspondent of the 7iz7: oa ,uotes a semi-official announcement on the part of the American Govetcmernt that it has official information from Geneva of a satisfactory character in relation to the American Claims. This (the writer observes) is verv vague ...

... UNIVERSITY DEGREES-SALE OF DIPLOMAS; B. D. H. writes to us:- I had been hoped that the exposures made during the past few years concerning the unblushing and zoandaloun sale and purchase of diplomas granted by certain foreign universiltes had for ever put an end to the fraudulent prac. tite; but from the advertisement of ' Mr. MenIous, 46. Kit g Street, Jersey,' which appeared in lat week's ...

... TUESDAY AUGUST 13, 1872. THE Tories aic in a state of perplexity bordering upon the ridiculous. Checkmated and baffled at every point during the Session, and with the Ballot Bill in operation, they look in vain for signs of that reaction of which they boasted so much at the outset of the Parliamentary campaign, and bewail their fate in sackcloth and ashes. Accustomed to defeat and conscious ...

... I THE DEARNESS OF* MEAT.. We temonstrated a fortnight ago with the public for the panic into which they had been betrayed on the ise in the price of coals, but there seems to be 6no point on which the panic has some foundation, From all the Isformation we can obtain, we incline to believe that there will be no serious reduction in the price of meat, and that the poorer section of the ...

... E!;. l i' . > iE IN SCOTP- A~ l'.HT IN' *uikl 'Sl NHOSTELRY. - ti L p(ar sAhc- t ~ -Cy t:, a Qeen, withI the * C i -it ciid ?? ?? ?? thle Grant * . . : -at OcripL-. wi I-- t.1 has causel greater ni-t; iitnI -i: f , ?? I~ 1 11ttwiit onl ?? jkto I' , i anti the Prijics * :tpc~ii to Ulu. ?? an ta~tion of Bai)t ?? leI c ?? In the coneceof ?? ifs ! Iir - I ici~~ Ai ttranutoAr1 that -ci: itl, 'Le Pi ...

... The Daily NYews correspondent writes from Rome on the 2nd inst.:- The Clerical party has been thoroughly vanquished, and the victory obtained by the Liberals is really a great one. Ever since the occupation of the Eternal City, the Pope had been proclaiming that the great majority of the Roman population was against the Usurper. The plbiscite, it is true, showed the re- verse ; but the ...

... The Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, M.P., arrived' kt 1 Duffryn House yebterday morning. ji! Duffryn House yebterday nioriiiiig. LOCAL BOARD. —The meeting of this Board was R on Monday last. Members present: Mr. J. Griffiths (in ( the chair), Messrs. E. Evans, D. Williams, J. Edwards Thos. ledwards, D. Morgan and E. Thomas. The minutes of the last meeting were read and coiitirmed. The committee ...