... YXAlaL, MigON MS DEFENCE. Yesterday, at the lunetbein at Litrathen, an the) ioccasion of te inspection of thevwater-works there by the Wat Commisioners of Dandee, Mr Yegsnaa, in reply to the toast The Houses of Br . Parliamnent, referred at some leugth to his con- str duct in the debates on the Eastern Question. In ba the first place, he said it was antrue, as A had been asserted by some ...

... THE CAUCUS SYSm -* ?? ?? re An imp~ortant correspondence has passed be- condil tween the Right lion. WV. B. Forstor, M-P.orfor ftf~ 'Bradford, and 'Mr.:Al're Iinigworth, the chair- wicV man of the Bradford Liberal Association.~ The remin sassooiatinn, under its recent reozrganiSAtion, has a pisieE rule (15) whereby any candidate proposed. for the IandI representation of 'the borough must give ...

... FISHIda L00flTo2v !.-The weather was a dead ca2m eterdsy, with aseyere thunderstorm and heavy rain- Baskets were with hcay, e zollvin being the ressorts from each of the besats enpza;- Troute Lbsa .t MrSmlth,.Erlghtas_..~ 7 6 S J hr Paterson, Edinburgh. . 10 8 O 1 SleD. F. Scott, Edinburgh ?? a 9 f, Mr Mathewson, Df aetrmne, came In the ?? nghz wnt t, ni trom; tweighing Mb _ GOLF. EaE GoLF ...

... . . (BY AN OCCASIONAL CORnrSPOD1EN-) Friday, I er Wednesday the two Commissions of d j General Asembly were indicted to meet. The o ancient idea of fixing the meeting for the 14th of August seems to have.been to gather up and t report the results of the supreme court in May, v and to report to this Committee of the whole I It House how its injunctions had been carried a out. This year there ...

... THE ECLAPSE OF THE SoUK A tele~ram to the Dtaiy ews, from - awoengs, a Wyoming, says:- C 'The eclipse has been most satisfactorily observed 6 at all the northern stations, and at all the southern ?? ones from which news has been received up to St the present time. The corona. was markedly th ,different from those observed in 1S6D, 1870, W Ibt and 1S71, and this year the observu- 1i dons have ...

... y=T WEEK' ARLIA-MENT. OS 03 S~CL COR5OtWW.) oft L~omsno, Saturday. b3% East, which closed at an TO anr this morning, can hardly be said za3nd erited the qualification of being great 0133ve g ors fr the country no doubt enjoyed I ,d ~ir.. catry bacsk to their homes exagge. ?? its quality. They may even fox SeS te S historic, and spur the rural imagi- pa - wO v~ith sccoots of its inspiration. ...

... MR M. J. STEWART, M.P., AND TE[ CHEFOO COONV}NTION. s In a letter to Lord Salisbory, dated 5th Art,' oen the subject of the Cheioo Cooventios, MIr IL J. Stewart, M3-.P, made some remarks coi tis Led. e ship's reply to a question p1t to Lbin ill the ?? of Lords by Lord Aberdeen. Fe 'aid I-I reer. ence to the supposed - protectionist vier of tbe a Chinese Government, allow me to trneieir'u ...

... DEAFAN D DUTMB CONVENTION. The econd annual Convention of the N~ational i ?? and Dumb Society was held in the -Q:al + H; Hotel, Glssow, yesterday. Tle proceeding' wl1uch were throughout of a. most intoresting charanter, b were earmieu on entir-ly in the deaf and dumb g language the prin-cipal points being interpreted to the menbeis of the press by one of thet gentlemen ' present. The ...

... OPENING OF KILMALCOLIM WATER- WORKS. -- ?? The Kilmalcol in. Water-woris were formally. (3 opened yesterday afternoon. The event was one of ron those that in the ordiniary routine of village life are ns- as few and far between as angels' visits. A diversion An from the beaten track is on snch occiasions not only pV Perinissille, but highly laudable, and of this Kil- 1 malcolm seemed f ully ...

... TIM -WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. AT BRADFORD. , IW_ -S ,1-- WMM | tom nOU OWN coarsroPfll-) lof ToE reconstruction of the Methodist Conference fI has now become a fact; and the first mixed an sessions ' matter of history. This change in the ! constitution of a body which, ecclesiastically, has always been Conservative is not a revolu- tion, but a development. It is the outcome of many years' ...

... RAMBLINGr RECOLLECTIONS OF GLASGOW-No. XXIV. en ?? s si-D CLERGY. ty DR 'LOCKHART WaS the respected minister of ' Ithe College, or Blacinfriars' Church, in the High ' ;1YStreet, which, with its ancient graveyard, is' n' sweat away by the inroads ol the aae of Mi 11' railways. Some of the oldest families of of liae a w had proprieary seats in this church, ]i: l. and the professors and their ...

... WEATHER CHART, AUGuR 2. The Chzrt ?? the restemn eomtrie9 of Europe, froM e | orway t.> the cs.ae of PortuzAl. ald eeebr.e Great Britl:a ree the Brhith Islea. It Wjes includoe the Norrh Seas the Garnun O~ee the Bay of BLemay, the Mediterraneam, thi Atlantic, vrth the Eojlridh Chbarel, SrL&tol Clrel, and Irieh Sea. EXPLAYALTION OF THE CHA.LT. T- ?? ?? ?? ?? In the above chsrt the dotted line,; ...