... 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 ?? IIto ...

... 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 ?? fellow +silt' se t settingua offE certaixe descriptive a1 remiarks adln'- ( to as ?? with a rather b florid ...

... 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. ?? THE ?? OaAE. a al Mr Fowlie, Invcrurie, the ...

... 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 ...

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... EXTENSIVE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. ; A meeting of the committee of the Cotton Spinner*' . Association and delegates from various districts atfeeted I the present strike took place in Manchester on ruesday afternoon. The committee declined accept the delegates proposals which were to refer the question to arbitration, to work four days a-week at 10 per cent, reduction, or five days'at 5 per ...

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... THE O-ME sx(!RXTRY- AT - PUTON. e Preston, Thursday Niht. I he ?? Mitehded a public meeting t t5is ing in, tlijer dee of the Corn. Echange. i The van lvy kflw tteindno Evm iaial- abl apart it oeh.~ Asog thiee piesenti tr r t . r*i , S foter pt'esfzie of : Preston, who preided; Sir J. Hoi6e, Attorney- Genera,; Sir G,} Greu*4 W-.; Mr Ef: Enernon,a; it.;0 Er 3. E. Got, ILMP., Mr Hardcatle. )itRP. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... CONFERRING 0F DEGREES-DISTRUELTION OF PRIZES. The conferring of 'Is-ases and distribution of orizes at the close of tihe .rtwr session took place 'esterday forenoor. in thle lovwer ;all of the College. 2 kthe students, who assembled in large nuimbers, speant thie time previous to tile proceeiugs ealn- mencing in the usual deni'sstrations peculiar to extra academic occasiois. 'their mirth, ...