... 1OTEL GRVUMBLING I eic g ln ticnan IIho IIas lately been travelling vith his friends ail ovci Lngland, Scotland, and Wales in a l'ulillan car, and mcanwhile mia'. ing that luxurious but somewhat conlined dwvelling-place the permanent home of himself and party, is believecd to have been actuated by a spite against hotels. No doubt it wsould be an exaggeration to say that he has on the whole ...

... ?LJLLj?7\yt LORD DERBY'S STATEMENT.--The speeches deli- vered by Lord Derby to the deputations which waited upon him do not please those who fancy that England ought to depart wholly from her ancient policy in the East. To men who take a calmer view of the situation they are profoundly satisfactory. They indicate that while the Government is essentially in sympathy with the remarkable national ...

... [BY TELEiltAPH.1 Mr. Cross will receive tho freedom of GlasgogW on Sep- tember 28. Dr. Allen Tbomnson, Fellow of tho Royal Society and Professor of Anatomy in Glasgow University, was ye~ter- day unaniamously elected President of the British Associa- tion for 1877, at its meeting at Plymouth. Sir James Campbell, one of the principal Glasgow mer- chants, died yesterildy, at his seat at ...

... FTEE SCIENCE AT SOUTH KENSIN-OTON. Although no aitnounoeinelit ]ias yet been made regarding the closing of thie Loan Exhibition of Sciontilic ApliMiraets, there are alreoady indications that tic tilleo lus expircid for which litany of the collections were originally lent. YIi e relloval most protitlent, in concit ence of its tlizu, is the lightthouse for the Littlo Basses l ook. It iS ...

... AN'D JOUINAL. MONODAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1876. T1i. lE JRi17B-L Y POST.-A eow Talc, by CAr- TACIN MIAYNE REID, Gwen `W.ynn: a Romancoe of the WyO, appears every Saturday in the, TWeekly P'ost. A Tngleci Web, by the author of The Mys- tery of Atherntone Grainge, appears every Satllrdlay in the WFeekly Post. Ilis Royal uglicness the Prin1ce of WAr,1s arrived at I.0orgotdie on Saturday ...

... MRl. GLADSTONE ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS. [SECuIAr, TELRIGRA-3.) The flight lion, IV Ii. Gladstone, aceomapanii'd lip Mr. Ciladetono, has beel onl a chi.t to thle Duke of Cilevelandi, at Itchy Castle, near ittaindrop. Dunrhamn. The right bun. gentlesian was engaged onl Friday and .Ssturdsy in ids favourite oceislation of cutting down at large tree in 1aby 1'srk. A deputation of the Liberal Association ...

... . TIho ingathering of hops hlcs progreseted rapidly, and will be completed in the course of a fvew daysi. Everywhere tho frtit is srnall, hut of excellent quality, and cures well. TH]E TYlITIKDEI ii:RX EMILOSION. The last of the officers ?? by ?? oxplo- tion has been discharged, Mr. re'el, tho engineer, leavilg the hospital yesterdat . Four casces noer rernalin-Dlaeia, Merres, Loney, and ...

... MBiPETINUG OF Cl PEDITORS. An whotiuried ieooetililf or the credlitori of Arthur lfills, (tririruci (hitso (c iloti cal Workis, I-fmlairririch, ard Wropro lnouiic ( homtieicn le iorks, Wopre, Ilintihilre, wias hold yestilday, a t thoe (aeorge11 otel, Walseall. iMir. T. Thomp. nIiir, l~rrrain iri, ?? votod t ttiro chair ; Ilir. F. Mi. Bvir- tori, Iirri i brelaini, irild Ah Ir. T. 1T. Sballiey, ...

... IR. B , BAXTEI'l, M. ., AT AIR DrtOATLI. On Tcic7dly night thc Pit lIo;*. 1,r, Ei . M'xter Pi.Ph, C, ircrssel at inetinig of Ilia ?? ?? Arb~roath lRferring, to (he recent msoiom of P'arliamiirit, ho cald it Wran one of the mnost d, ariaan0 inid ?? that we lad bd4 for n very long thira. l'hern w;n a growing feeling I:tolig those bcst aqnl asintild with P'artliallentaory er:'i that if rnothing ...

... SOCIAL SCIENCB CONGRESS. mL e .. _ .. I - The following are the special questinos for dis; cussion at the forthcoming Congress to be opened at Liverpool on the 11th of next month :-International UIaw Section.-What are the limitations within which extradition should be recognised as an international duty ? Municipal Law Section.-1. Are any and what modifications necessary in the present Law of ...

... Nearly the whole of the harvest croppingaof farm occupied by Mr. S; Vergette, of Glinton, hear Peterborough, has been destroyed by fire, It has been ascertained that a fire which occurrod at Jacob's Well Farm, near Gtiildford, was the act of a boy named Sheere, aged'five years. There is pleasure enough in this life to make us wish to live, and pain enough to reconcile us to death when we can ...

... WORX AND WAGES. I ASHTON COLLIERS. A conference of colliery proprietors and miners in the Ashton district was held yesterday at the Clarence Hotel, Manchester, to consider the ques- tion of the proposed reduction of wages. During the conferne'e, which lasted two hours, it was con- tended on behalf of the colliers that the reduction demanded was inequitable, being 16B per cent.; and that they ...