... TWVEED FISHERIIES COMMISSION. On Tueeday, MrS. Walpole, inspector of salmon is fisheries for England, and Mr Archibald Young, r commiesioner of saluon fisheries in Scotland-the ti Commissioners appointed to inquire into the opera- d tion of the Tweed Acts-bomnmenced their sittings d at Berwick. d Several fishermen employed in the white fishing ( at the Greenses. Berwick,, were examined. Their ...

... : . _. ?? A latter from Berlin, writtenlby one whose in- terest it is to obtain; accurate knowledge of the l military and financlal state of Germany, contains the following ?? average number t of recruits in the German Empire is every year ti 400,000, but from this' number must be deducted N 42,000 refractory emigrants Aan, missing conscripts. c Their remain 304,000 men who go before thep ...

... hi ?1- ti L !E,;TB4GT~49M -p.UNCHrT~ 9; I'iir~oW78elot A Ed'irnm4' Want 4 V It hbliay'? )yi you've auist *Jsn at,'home ill for me ondmnth l IS stone coming forwaw lik&a 'ier, and assalling St _ ?? barqu e ervous i>, ?? rnsy sitdown and read a bit to mq, and then you:i may give me a shillirig, 'afatulyrhii W*-. le t P.O BEBPQAO I That ha .e th I Gladitone *ith his-drattedflrewrlei s! a ...

... , . E. NO t., BOAnD Or A=ADE ExAMsiNATrox.-Yesterday, Jamasi M'GeoM passed as firet mate. Nono fiffii 5 > ?? Tuel- day fght, a atpenf fnamed Gutter, who ?? in~nrieeeby falling from .a a~e~eli~il-*W~ork-a1 eide~of a voaelnunder. go~nit'~ps~rs. ?? Doek a -few days o,.died ins the Mrtry 'wuhitber he bad been xE~d>'!¢ii*V2 iage a2Xb'66years. ?? :W ~bdi Kenneth GlasIow a ad!Gteelikblppiag'Cohpany, ...

... - GREHNOOK. ; n I ..a A* i s TMATBk - Roy - MUr Darund's English l Opera Comnpasny is announced to appear to-night nh bhe opera of J L Trovatore. Il l Mr A. MidDonald of St Mary's 86eools hereo '1 ba o boon unanimaely olected a Fellow of the ' Educational Institute of' Scotland at the recent' e meeting of the Institute in Edinburgh. SHIPIBUILDIN%. CONTRACTS.-Wa understand that Messrs ...

... it . I- . GREENOOC. -i T l~i ?? BANiL.-At the aimnual meete ' .in of the oreenock Provident Bank. on Satirday Y'.-br MEdward Bl1ckno'e niesidin#-Mr'Thoma0 B ?? was elected chairmman forthe ensuing 3i' -year, and Messrs Wm.: Rankin, shijowner; John Y 'itXAllison, sugar refiner; ad Wmi Lethain, it ,merohant, were appointed to the vacant places l- in th'i committee. - SCENOE. ?? -OCI Saturday, ...

... d. upon thom. _ ' he RAILWAYS OF THE UNITED KINGDONIL f8t1unfitn Tvlpr Ira ?? to t1he Rnirr of TrANA I Captain Tyler has issued to the Board of Trade .his annual report on railways, a document of very 1 considerable importance at the present moment. The loading features of the railway system of the i United Kingdom at the end of 1873 are thus sum- °E r marised -A total sum of £588,320 308 had ...

... AYR, In bh .isnAND-BE~mNo. - Yeaterday, the burgh' ce pgshco apprehended a Womsn naned Agnes Hay of or Fraser, the wife of a publican in Wallacetown, ve on the 'chugo of having assaulted her husband. ?? It apgeara that the poor mans life hae been 'n rbade miserable fre long time pas t, and that he h has mnore thn onoe been endangered in con.. d. sequence of his, wife's violent eonduct. ' ...

... , HER MAJESTY'S JOURNEY TO WINDSOR The Queen, hecoimpanied by the pri Beatrice and suite, loft Baluniorsh ?? shortly af ter one o'olock, and posted to Ballak ?? the royal train was in BallwkR ?? to Windsor. The wea to r I cold., At Ballater a guard of hiour ftite b {J)nke of Edinburgh's Own ji hls ofte , drawn.up, under codmmad of CaptW 1L, and gave a roa! Caout att a Earl of Kintore, Provost ...

... ?? 0! s- l 1, ,. O I , . . , ,- !. : ?? :: ' .1r I .. -, get I,*1e' Of Russia left London yesterdtyfo Pari . .1 o.p-1.theo Royal .Bank. of te Sco di, .who' in July last received gees divi'deir at 'the'.rates dU [pex9i'ear unt, 8rit ful 3hvistmasito b*.figvoured with another C hi. tributhin ot ea&c1 proportions. XMM Fortebeu ?? Ersirrson- addressed.F his tinr Rutherglen coinstituents lst. n ...

... IR ELAND. 1uz Mlarquisof Drogheda has been appoillted e J.od.LieuteOaut of Kildare in room of the late like of Leiuster. . . t- Tnt HIOuZ RULEnS.-I great Home 'Rule w ?? was hold in Bailyahannon yester. eE c, Many memnbera of Parliament attended, C autl resolutions as to fixity of tenure and release C oi Ferian prisioners were unanimously passed. in TlrAnAM c EllIC.YV.KN asoE15rs.-A religious ...

... I II E L A P. Timn Duke of Ahercorn, lt is stated, has been elected Grand Master of the Freewasoas of Ireland. TiN OLDEST BooKxN- True WOnTz. -3Our Dublin correspondent telegraphs :-Tho Book of ,Kells, written by St Columba, in 475, the oldest book in the world, the most perfect specimen of Irish artk with rich illuminations, and valued at £12,000, has disappeared from the College library. It ...