... - 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 ...

... , . 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, ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ' ...

... 'A AIL r ;V i I )i _ . ri Tho fiamburg ?? Companyq s3teamer Eirvil, from. New YorLk ith $0 ,oO in picole for Friece, and 82)Q tor, , t wilamtorilV irrid here at 1.10 this mrnonli - ' . , , , . .. ° .10 11 Southamptonz N'ovmhei#,q .1 o Tho North (Iorman lhtiE( otmerOI lltHna, with Mails, &a., .kole bhoncegfor NowYorkwtoS Y rtNovembr2. Nv The TranmiatlontI6 Company'8 0tfo lorerlere' from ...

... ?? ?? & t ?? ., Vo, I4'h'E wiiga ig ito , l Ya~iiob~h'$'eth huwe been IaU flxda; slid ¶rase fears gteeist~ttalned fb P ;iosn .sme, It iblewdhas 0pro~a have; Allaa. Va a* b~~~avduwig~itow oure ~dluurgh and Glasgow aimttz e ' Riotlh have oir .6 tie been po 1l ?? lrepardts erhethes fot t the ere0tioi o aplbla aor ?? hate i{tld IRst XO5i. a] Mid 8$eied ?? tsgow lie ll-t'he tie * ...

... REGISTRAR-.GElERAL'S-RETnUNS.. The following is the RegIstrar-General's retur of bfrthBs. deaths, and marriages i'the eight prin. cipal townsof So0ornd for week ending Nov. 14:- , X . : :T -,raure ~~ ?? ~ ~ ~ ~I n ~~ ?? ~ ~ ' M ea n ?? l Os , ' 3lU8agoY. ?? '387 1 29 78 81'- 282 '0438 0-38 I O u u sl.. 134 093 .- - . - - jtLdinburjih-,. ' 13 9Bi Dudn e ?? 103 82 18 06 20 2042-3 0-05 Aberdeoe.. ...

... AI. . - . A2 o. I I - I I. 0 in ! the :t3 rannivemreey'dinveri eo. , Uqs the Weaver6' SoCety of AW'ert, , Mascrae's Hotel, Bfath 6trc:et 11,1h tI j: a- :The corn'ly was a6 large oylc, sil tlrih e pccupied the president of the , d-'t i 1 Mubro, and the croupier's cbpite w, f'1,1 t, Joceph Taylor, the treaaeirer of the w i ' eo porting itho ehairniaxt *ere the te' l Ailnsan Rev. Mr Even Cordrj, ...