... ' BRUMAGE31 IMPYRUALISM. rtohe UINDER the French Empire the people were dided nominally invested with universal suffrage, and rang. practically disfranchised by the election managers. e th The result was all but uniformly according to arges the mind of the latter. But, even when carry- Nfan- ing out their system, they had not the cool, d its semni-contemptuous candour to explain to the ...

... IMPERIAL PARLiAMENT. HOUSE OF OM~-WDNDY S101001 The Speaker took thle chair at lhalfpas'tt 12 o'clock. to ine SCOTCH PET'ITION45. : toi Petitionls wiere prlesenlted by Sir A. CJORDON from this p) parishioners of Laggan anil intuabitants of Luclhcarro~a to bri aud Kishoin~ and the lsii k-session, &c., from Haurray andl Churi Birsay in Orkney, ill fi tour of a a inquiory by Royal lop, a ...

... PREnSENTATIONS TO REVS. DR SPENCE AND III Aut DIR DONALDSON. s A~laestevelin itsocial niesting Wats hlvid S i l Chrh tnte socion of the indue- tico of the 11ev. A. 1). Diotildsott (late of Oulbitown) *to thoe co itastsrftte-ltttv. M~r Donaldson presiiding. ISg There was a large attenditites, a Tea barising btifen served, s ite Chairman antid Rev, Air an d *ni l of Alllarkinels) addressed t ...

... TI1I-T liOOF OF A TRAMWAY CAR. litia 2V. 4it's a dacwlg ciii1 thinig, let wve tell you, to use langttaffe such' :a Ilung way stronger tillill yourself, | mly iclkit '' t This severe o rt o f axpothegm was addressed by a 'r weatherbeikteils sqtiire-set, sailor-lot)king person to a i yoUng fellow +silt' se t settingua offE certaixe descriptive a1 remiarks adln'- ( to as cempfliiOfl with a ...

... ABEI:DEF,N J3ANFF, AND MIORAY- SCHOOL. DMASTER~S' ASSOCIATION. liS- A meeting7 of the membecrs of the above association e old wvas hehld in the Norml n Traininu College, George to the Street, Aberdeen, on Salturday. There w~as a good tr. attendance. Boy. George Selbie, Chnpel of Gariooh, B' the p iesitlent for the year, occupiedi the chair. aNlc THE ecTdlnlEe OaAE. a al Mr Fowlie, Invcrurie, ...

... THE SCHOUVALOFF MISSION. CONGRESS ALMOST ASSURED. CONTINENTAL SPECULATIONS. ST PETEzRSBURG, WedneF In consequence of an unexpected do' y Cogent Sehouvaloff will not arrive in London till thigevening, It is expected that intelligence abo a- the details ef his mission will first transpire in jiorudon. flere the previous secrecy is still maintp4 0J, but the conviotion is gaining ground that the ...

... t lit Attratot 0#111,11at. ABERDEEN, SATURDAY, MAY 1S, 1S7S. IN the House of Lords last night the Duke of Richmluond and Gordon stated that tile consideratioli of amendments on the Cattle Diseases Bill would lhe taken on Thusdaly next. Thle Matrimonial ('auses Acts Amiendmuent Bill was read a thir(l tinie, mnul the Customas and Inland lRevenue Bill passed through conmaittee. The Adulteration ...

... A FEEING MARtKET DISTURBANCE. .. - - .1 - .e en1 to RIVAL PARISHES. m 1111115. At thle Aberdeen Sheriff Court onl Tuesday-before Wi point Sheariff Comnrie Thlinion-,Taines Littlejohni t32), firn 15F coulI, i ervant, WVostside ; John Wilson (28), firn servaiit',q aS 19R Hidlhead ; Anldrew Anderson (22), farmi seilt Kirk. lie il1r's ton of Cuslinie ; Jisnes Watt (21), fill-I ...

... I - LORD MONCREIFF ON TIE EEI- CHURCH 4ND DISESTABLISHMNT. In a prefatory note to a lecture recently delivered h by Lord MoncreiM on Church and State from the G Reformation, which has lately been published, c the Lord Justice-Clerk says :- tc Vhen I agreed to take part in this series of e congregational lectures, I had no intention of pro- JO moting in &any way an agitation against the PI ...

... T N -W MEDICAL A at. - 8 i A 15A-Thr-A c A1,rnt3tion from '-6e :rraical Defence Associa- tu4 the reside' o the Prvv n re-day-3 or-er that the members of soeisti-n migh; have an opportunity us ex' ?? tdr views on toe new medical bill now 'p FICiiARfl$DSON ?? haviag intro- T .,S ?? depuhicn, stated that aiar'e ?? of 1 men ot uie country had formed them-. s , ato i'i asociation vhose busines- ...

... SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 2 Nothing ha transpired i this country as to the rwqut ai Comtu Schoov&OTs v's2t to St I Petersbarg,'but'the semi-official newspapers of j Viena profess to know enough to enable d them to predict with certainty that a ' Congress will meet to discuss the o whole Russo-Turkish question, and the c Agsece Busse, still in the peaceful vein, d continues to think tht up to ...

... ; Balmoral Casths, MayT 22. C The Queen and Prinas Beatrice and Princesses t( Victori and Maud of Wales arrived at the Castle D' yesterday. Bnckinghham Palace, Mty 22. {t The Crown Prince and Princess visited the V Marchionesa of Lorne at Kensington, and after- T wards visited the dower show at the Botanic C :Garaens, Regent's Park. The Crown Princess IN .VitedWOlonel and Lady Constance ...