... hEW YEARS GIFTS AND ENTERTAIN- I MENTS. DPZFiJ RUAI svnn UTO THE POOIL The third annual 1Hogmnay Supper for the poor peo le of the ?? connection Rie wihtee sagow UnIte 's-ageliatic Association, 91o was held on Saturday evening in the Greendyke H. Street Drill Hall. Amongst Usoes on the platform 0i Were Rev. Jasies Scott who oc`3iupied the chair, u Rev. &- N. Somerville, kRev.. Robert Blair, ...

... TURF NOTE S. (tROM OUR SPOntlso coRlRsPoesuwr1 L London, Saturday. Taocmr a stranger to the columns of the Herald, I may perhaps be recognised by some of your readers as the humble individual who, under the signature of Tam o'Shanter ! in one of your contemporaries, did his best in the cause of sporting truth. Henceforth my communications -will be addressed solely , to the Herald. My ...

... LY2.. ILLEGAL STORAGE OF GuNrPOWDnr-At the 1Shorii' Crimin..l Court in S.Lturday - before Sheriff Cocper-lii-!Wi N ilson, grocer and spirit dealer, Glasg and irk, was charged with a contraveation of ?? t,.xplisives .ict, 15,o, by ha; nr stli: v'ir in a portio-i cf his premuises at I uirhirk w'ricil .vas iot liceased for that pi'r. ! pia, hetweie 1 , 7aUr1ih. of gunpowder. I''Ie ?? was stored ...

... ffA I MRW& t Bristol. December 30. The Great Western Comppany's steamer Somerset, froet e Now York, arrived here to-joy. e Liverpool, December33Q The Cunard steamer China sailed hence for Nev York -to-jay. The ational IS' =shipComiiaoys steamer Italy left bere a last evening for S er York. Queenstown. December 30. The Cunare steamer B;tavia, frcim New. York, with S13 023 specie. nrrived hero ...

... At a late hour on Saturday evening, a man nared Thomas M'Beth was apprehended and taken to the Bridgeton Police Station in con- nection wih the death of his wife, named Janet I'Lauchlin or MIIBeth_ The prisoner, who is a ioiner to trade, lived with his wife in the ground lat of the tenement No. 72 Oswald Street, Bridgeton. He is a strong, muscular fellow, ond when he takes drink, which he is ...

... BROOAiKNOLL TIEE CllIECH BAZAAr, AJIRDRIE. On Saturday this bazaar was again opened at 12 o'clock. Rev. Win. Reid occupied the chair, and beside him on the platform were E'ev. ItMr MLain, Edinburgh; Rev. J. Paterson, Amrdrie; and l-ev. J. M'Kenzie, Chapelball. The Rev. J. Paterson having engaged in prayer, the Chairman, intro- ducing Mr Main, alluded to his hboving come at considerable ...

... The bulky volume, .The New Edinburgh9 Almanac. issued by Messrs Oliver & Boyd, and 1 showing on its familiar red boards old Father Time c hurrying onwards with his saud-glass ancdscythe, reminds us, if there were nothin4 else to do so, of * the close of the year. The Almanac for 1877 is what it has always been throughout its longhistory, t a reliable book of reference in all matters, local ...

... THE ADMIRALTY HO AXD. I l14 fl |l~f4~ S. flX Uz:tJXJ. (FllO3 OUR CORK CGRRISrONDENT.) About a month ago a telegram pr orting to be from the Secretary of the Andmiralty, London, was received at the Admiralty Office, Qiseenstown, ordering that the Gosbawk (gunboat) should pro- ceed immediately to Gibraltar. The terms of the order were such as to cause a suspicion of its genuineness. It was ...

... LELMNTARY EDUCATION. * L T -I D LA The Local Government Board has issued a ofr- cular to clerks of boards of guardians, directing L their attention to the provisions of the :Elementary Education Act, 1876, so far as they concern the p~ower and duties of the guardians and the School Attendance Committee to be appointed by s them under the Act with respect to the payment I of school-fees and the ...

... I (mOr.M2 ot Po coalEwOY-Dziv.) r Paris, December 29, Evening. Tar great 6ield-day is over, and M. Jules Simon, crowned with victorious laurels% is radiant. As for his adversary, -TI. Gambetta, who has been y utterly beaten in the struggle, it is difficult to ti say what his feelings are; but that he 'will take b his revenge for his present defeat in the next h sess;on may be pretty ...

... I THE DELH FESTWIMTS. Delhi, December 30. The Consuls General and Consuls of the Foreign European Powers together with a large number, of minor Chiefs and Rajahs visited the Viceroy : I to-day. Medals were presented to each Prince or I Chief. The Viceroy afterwards visited the ?? of Hyderabad, the Prince of Arcot, Prince I Azim Jah, Her Highness the Princess of Tanjre.| Yesterday evening the ...

... LETTEJIS TO THE EDJTOX2'0 th PAINThRS'-WAGES AND THE. UrITED jua TRADES' COUNCIL w GLisgow, December 30, 1876& th: a ?? s yur ssu ofthi monin on woldalmost tandy ti te sileniumwas t hnd; n avance of one s hlfpnnyperhou, ad yt te ctyknoweth noct how ngrtefl w ar, ad wat die crime the Trads' Cuncl ha comittd i keeingit silent. -Now, Sir, as one story is good til anohri od -I should not have ...