... TRAFFic RIETUR.NS FORWEEKj ENDING. me 31lot October, 1874 . . 117 7a 3d. M Numboer'f Passegers 2,5. M fac The Thermopyhe; from Shanghae, with the first of the me new season's teas, arrived on Tuesday in the Victoria Docks, Hu London. the A number of oil and water-coclour paintings by the late th Ilr Giles, R.S.A., being the remainder of his collection, ...

... EXTPRTAINBIEN P TO THE MARQUIS AND :- MARCHIONESS OF HUNTLY. ' I Tsrm tenantry On the Aboyno estates elteitajfinerdt; Marquisand Marhioness of Runtly to P. ball at Aeboyne onl Friday evening. The large marquee lof the Aberdeen Marquee Companyi wav 'Pitched oin thle Village Gveen, but large and siptcious though -the acosinmodation was that-was thus provided, it was far from sufficient. From ...

... ThE once famous region of ASia Minor is famine- b7 stricken. The people are dying at the rate of 300 tc a-day. I50,000 deaths have taken place up to this time. I There is neither food to be got to maintain the people, it nor seed corn to sow, nor oxen to till, the fields. The al land is becoming depopulated; and these things have f only been partially known to the people of this country'u in a ...

... .P!jE AT M3SSRS GARVIE & SONS' WORKS. YESTERDAY morning, shortly before five o'clock, an alarm- r ing outbreak of fire occurred in the premises of Messrs o J. Garvie & Sons, builders and wood merohbAnts, Huntly b Street. It was discovered by the fireman, and had its seat v in the drying-house immediately over the boiler-house. t The greatest dismay was caused among the people in the is ...

... MR. GRANT DUFF ONr ROCKS AHEAD. 1ir MR GRANT DuDr' delivered a lecture in Edinburgh, on P ih Friday evening, on the articles RAks. ahead, or the b d, Warnings of Cassandra,; which appeared in the si qimra)' JefV, These rocks' abhed ' consist of at the increasing political-power of the lower orders, the I Ie gradual divorce of religion from intelligence, and the: el bt edlee0 the ...

... ST NICHOLAS rAROCHIAL BOARD.' fly - ~to sea REPORT BY, BOARD, OF. SUPERV1IO4101. ON POOR-HOPS' Ith M~~~~~~~~~~~ANAGEMENT. SE:1 - am a~4r 'A S3PECIAL mxeeting bf'the'l'eroci6'ial.Bodirdbf.'th'e Pariish obf ipIF rige of the Poior-holvie. Mr~Ogilvie'prese, 'dth e brs Ine preseint were-Mesr _aaseGajMgeniBehi, b Kerrl, Stephen, Wifilliams, DukffsRslgi, Aiken,! andl Baillie Gkl~rahmi 'ao, Rell ...

... EAT. lWEssT OHUIIHES. ler- To 1fthc Ebot of ts ERDE4 3O1IM th nre Nov., 1874. S 8aTh fo~llowingg Words -of- Ccrseknnnte nelh d t ;- ! d;N t~Dyears ago, Cwhen referring to clamit Iso ew ~ sini itI te buningof te Cty Churches, seem' hn :for sligtu ateed' he i r slIghtly alterd, tbit express g ery accurately the eteling the Mr dn uffrto 'th6 l ratntntu spirit Witkwhich the Ton riis -Council ...

... | ENGLAND. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived in London on Thursday from the Continent, and proceeded at once to Marlborough House. They exohauged visits with the Empress of Russia during the day, and in the evening attended the St James's Theatre, in company with the Cesarewitch. Yet another death is reported as having happened in con- sequence of the railway ...

... - L-,oxes., DESPA.TCH OF FOREIGN MAILS PROM ABERDEEN. DESTIN2ATIONS. D Hnallhd Box : Despatcohed. Closes. America-United States, Califor- Every Monday, nia, and British North America Tues., Thur., & 11-60 (by British Packet, via Cork), Saturday. Australia (Sonth and West), Tas- nanin, and Victoria, sin South 18th November. 11.50 A,M, anipton adNw eaa , Ditto, via.Bridisi 26th November ...

... PROFESSOR CHARTERIS ON THE FREE CHURHR AND DISESTABLISHMENT. ON Wednesday, Professor Ch~arteris delivered bis introduc- tory lecture fo The class of Biblical criticism. Wihat he proposed in his address was to show--(1) what the claim of T tipiritusl. independence as it emerged during the ton years', N nonflict means As a matter of fact, and to show- that in its iextreme form it wats ...

... M it _ . .. ;3 THE details of the divisions in. the House of Commons C during the session 1874 has been publiished, showing the I lg whole of the divisions in which each member of the House L g has taken part, as well as the side upon which they have B g voted. There were altogether 162 divisions during the Vl 0 year, and in these the Scotch members took part as I follows:- . and s Admiral ...

... THE IRISH PRELATES AND PROFESSOR 11I TYNDAL4L. I- -1I.I.. PR')rESScrn TyNDALL WMas not an hour too soon with his dliwscamcr of tbkel Atheism, or,, sv~,.v, Mawteriawlism,' dr which somehow sugkgeted'it'self 'very-b'r-iadlyVWe.ry` ' in- , hearer and readetof bhis opeuiugaddrass to the British of d Assooiaition. I e has',4done hbis . hest ,to, reatify.ptblic wo 'opuioni; bub: lie 'saiid^hC' sa ...