... INVEhRNESS. l111.11. - Am THm Fonr-Austoivus ScHoOLITASTma CASEWe understand that this Case is likely to come lip for discussion at the meeting of the Inverness branch of the Educational Institute on Saturday. AMEZUcAw BEEF.-A quantity of American beef was sold in town this week. At the dinner of the Inverness Farmers' Society on the 27th curt, the question for cousidiration is- In view of ...

... - - t THE queen's, Speech is more of a historical c document than is usual with speeches from the t Throne. It treats less of the business that is to c come before Parliament than of the foreign re- t lations of thWe country, and its colonial interests ( during tlib recess The narrative of the negoti- c ations on Eastern affairs occupies at least one- c half of the speech-more than- we have ...

... -d EC e i LONDON CORRvESPONDENI . c e~ ~ ~ o ~l f LONDO, Sunday night. n The prospects of peace have been greatly im- et proved by a change in the tone of the Conference. . Till the other day the British plenipotentiary showed too great an anxiety to conciliate Russia at the ex- pense of Turkey. Turkey in consequence took up d an isolated position, and refused to accede to the Russian ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDENCE l LoI6o-Mo, Monday night. Tihe miass meeting of members of the London Stock T xehancge was held this afteruoon inside the Housec to consider the questions wvhicll should guide the ap-f pointment of a newv commnittee. Enough members d he to form a quorum will retain offlceuntil 14 others are c to appointed, and will then also resign, so that out of a p ZS- total of 30 ...

... 'MROFESSOlt MMS'S XRTICLE ON THE . '4IBLE. AqP]z!1AT,:'mvTV)'vr mn t .- --, - rSPECIAL;1URiPOHT -OF THE FREE CHURCH rfor ODOLLMMl 'COMMITTE E. sldThe report of-the Free ,Church College Comnmitteecon. ex ProfeSsor'Sjnibl'wsmjxthted,, Bible, in the new editiontof iu tyle Elncyelopndia Britannica, was printed it, extenso Int. in i-u. Edinburgh pae~nWdedy It is a very lolig to and ...

... BANCOHGa,#ygEHOOL BOA&LL jt. meeting of this 33partd. was held Om IWdncgaZ-. m members were a1§. ,lr~eent. P. Davfidu sq 1 1;8.xnmarlo, chairman. 'Ti4 e wlas snbms l -to' ti I *le nga report, along *|ai~hgans from M~r fiit1,ct ;,rS8beet, Aberdeen, regegrcdjn ifhe central eo .ie1 .wegopt which we give/i t1 ~c~ explains i~sdfli~ s s ,U~xdeen, 10th Jizi,, -7,7. lIar.;r,-Agreeably to tle e ...

... I ,t *Alarrely. attended meeting of tls ope3ratve mBas0ns 0f tf id of the estyvras bald on Wednesdayinnigtmi the Thurbsrn no B r all, Market Street The meeting wSCcelled by the sti ab lOCa1 lodge of ,the United Operative Masons' A ssociatbion mi oS of -cotland, at the request, indireetly conveyed, of a be . numberof non-unionists. .Theconditions laid~down by cci ge. tbe nasters asthose under ...

... - - .. .T. -E.. LAATEST ! NEW .in ---- - - landl (RE UT'IR'S AXVD PRESS ASSOOIA 7ION is fe TBLEGRAMS.) but, - - | its. THE INDIAN FAMINE. CALCUTTA, Sunlay.--The reports for the plst wveel 'VOL show that thereis little if any change in tbh harvesi tior prospects. There has been at good fall of rain in w Malabar, in parts of Tinnivelly, and at the Nilgherilos, and showere in Salem, Tanjore, ...

... n- Papers have just been issued regarding the Bengal MEx in cyclone and, storm-wave of the 31st October-to 1st - at November, 1876, and the subsequent cholera epidemic. cla of -The extent of the disaster will be gathered from the no following letter addressed by Lord Salisbury to the Us Governor-General of India .- ch India Office, London, 2nd August, 1877. me My Lord,-I have received the ...

... a The usual meeting of the Elgin Town Council for the si t $electien of magistrates, &c., was held yesterday at i Li noon in the Council Chamber-Provost Culbard pre- a A.siding. sdPraycr having been offered up by the Rev. W. 1. i Gray, Free South Church, Z The Provost proposed the re-election of Bailie King. r o had before done his duties in a way that had been N 't so much for the good of the ...

... HAARRISON AINSWORTH, THE NOVELIST. M Sr H1arrison Ainsworth was born in 1805, and is, i therefore,we may assume, entitled to be ranked as the e Doyenu of English novelists. He has written volumin- r ously on many 'themes, and has not seldom written rather well than otherwise, He is not a good novelist, nor even a great story-teller; he has never created, so far as we know, a single character ...

... fj EXPERIMENTS WITH SECOND YEAR'S r: RIYEGRASS. CThe following are experiments with second year's ryi- a grass, ihowing the difference of weight, when newly l cut and dry, at time of fowering, and the difference of weight, from the same quantity, at the time when the .seed is ripe. > The first experimeothadtheryegrsscut and weighed ion the 22d Jume, and weighed won or dry on the 29th I July. h ...