... THE RO-klS ANB BIDGES BILL. PUBLIC arrEne=G asITERB CTY HALL. a1 Last night a pnblicwmfeeting, convened by the -Hon. Wl~i.iam CollinsLord Provost, in responsea to a numerously and ieifluentially signed requisi- n tiarn was held in the City Hall, for the purpose of 'considerin- the Roads and 13ridges (Scotland) Bill, jasd especially the clauses in it imposing exce'- aion~land bnjustist -rdens ...

... Aa STXEERS A-ND YACETS. The Fair week and the regatta week com- I ing together brought about a crisis in steamboat obstractions which are in want of remedy. At $S.ourook, alonter's Quay, and Rothesay yachts crowd the anchorages adjacent to the piers with- out paying any regard to the passage of the: river steamers and the safety of their passengers. At all times during the summer months are ...

... GERMAY.s (ROM OUR SPECIAL c4POWiZr IeG Berlin, tune 2-. IT is agreed on all sides that the session of i this afternoon is to be devoted to the claims of ri Servia and Montenegro, especially of the latter; B and many observers seem to expect a stormy te time over the question of Antivar, In raea-ld c to this api -ension 1 can give you ?? a E symptom and an opinion. First, the symptom. gi It ...

... SnxrRr Cont-Sheriff Fraser w37 boa Appeal Court at Paisley on Frtlav tss, 3 ! .LM. The most inmor nt case to be hcf ¾.- proposed formation of the George Street of Paisley into a separate draiunge fllstr,. appellants having in the finst place to t -, their appeal is competent. WVnF'-lIsTENG.-At 3 special diet of .: ZJ Court yesterday, a bleac-ifield wcr' Neilston, named Willi.n iumes, watsze, ...

... TE KNI Tho§* wioKcy-Yesterday, the Abbey or heenhibis hr~dge, unich is about to be sup- ?? 4y a ?? iron struture, swas closed tor radic, aud Operationis iegull by Alr JIqin, the coutractor tor thl muswn Worrk. Fint-On Suniday night the thatchied roof of a small outhouse at 1Z SLOrle ::treel, used as a tyre by Archcbald xjatlieson, cowfeeder, ci1glut lre, wuiun, however, was extinjguished 1 ...

... 61Xtqff v ?? . .* THURPSDA Y Ak1 )RNING, JULY 4. There wa.s no ineetin*; of CouNress yesterday. 3Tietwefzh sitting will I )e held this afternoon, ?? . . I I s +115 n -A 1. _ c . . The tweltan Klnng win a 'I - I-- - when it is anderstood tha S the Greek question will form,.tie chief subje ot Of discussion. A summary of the results alre. dy achieved by the Dongress is supplied by ?? night's ...

... I THE IA DINGTON BURGHS. LORD WILLTA HAY AT JE)DBURGHL Lord William Hay, the Liberal candidate for the representation of the Haddingtoa district of te Burghs, addressed a meeting of the electors in the iI Le Corn Exchange, Jedburgh, Last night. There was I e a large attendance, and the chair was occupied by M1 ?? William Deans. Amongst those on the plat- i form were Admiral Elliot, Kirklands; ...

... TUESDAY MOENING, Juiy 23. In the House of Lords yesterday Lord Napier ! and Ettrick calledattentiontotherecentfamnine1 Western and Southern India, and asked if the be Government intended to lay upon the table of . the House any estimate of the number of per- t sons who have perished by hunger or its mine- diate consequences in the Presidency of Madras and the State of Mysore. Lord Craubrook ...

... ALARMING FBE LN THE SOUTH SIDE. I The holiday season has been inaugurated! most unhappily by a rather serious tire which occurred about noon yesterday in the South Side. About half-past 11 oclock, while the Orange procession was as- sembling on the Green, the attention of the crowd was attracted by dense volumes of black smoke proceeding from the centre of a large. block of buildings situated ...

... JUXTMAN FsnZI).-A gentleman who had been summoned to attelid a the SlheriffCourt yesterday to serve as a jurymln, failed to appear, and wazs tred1 the usual 100 merks SCOts. AcCiENTS,-Yesterday morning, whie a a bourer named John M'Leod, employed in the sugar storV at Barr'q Breast, was at work there, he fell off a bog Y which was in motion in NO sugar loft, aud got his right thigh brkenL. ...

... THE EDDYSTONIE LIGHTHOUSER Prominently associated with the history a nd nterests of the port of Plymouth in particular, I of and no less with the safety and security of the ships of the Mercantile Marine of 411 nations, ;S the Lighthouse on the Edclystone RIocl stands, j silent and shining amid the surges, a beaconl B Lalike to the entrance of the Sound and to the M fairway to the English ...

... MAUI, AND STRANISHiP NEWS. (Fromn Lloydsl) SUEZ COAcAL, July 24.-Tb a Peninsular and 5 Oriental Comlpany's steamer P, ouah, from London for Calcutta, with the outwar d E2nglish mails Of { the 11th inst., has arrived ot Port -Said The, e Dutch Mail steamer Dreutb le, from Batavia and Aden for hiolland, has arrive rL at Suez. f YoKoAMA, July 23.-Tbh - steamer Merioneth- I shire, from the Clyde, ...