... iT W. A statement showing the number of wrecks, with ir cargoes, crews, week ended 3d May, 1879 :— Name. 8 lPort oe aT n Abrazia (4 1 Rail'y AIL Eliza B (19) 173. Coals is Moore (28)..) 8 | | § |Loudon 1354 Coals. Gretel 8 Yarmoutb.. Robert Dickson ¢ Sprite PO Velocity (24) | Foreign. Australia (i5). Betty (10) a | 8 |Buston | 480 Timber. Ail Beunington (7) \g Ferdinand Hoding 6) | 3 | 230 ...

... Constantinople, May 12. The Porte is understood to have renounced the occupation of Ichtiman, but at the same uve tu in its claim tu occapy Constantin ople, May 12, 9 The Turkish Minister has decided that Aleko Pasha shail start in the course of the week for to assume the government of Eastern and the command of the militia, The of Philoppopolis International Commis- sin will him, and it has ...

... Mr aid of the funds of that institution. Blackhall, Paisley, in IN WIGTOWNSHIRE.— At a meeting of the Local Authority in Stranraer yesterday, it was resolved to slaughter the whole stock on the two farms:of Balneil, parish of New Luce, and Low Creachmore, parish of Les- walt, on which uro-pneumonia has been found to exist. On jel there are 35 cows and other cattle, and on Low Creachmore two ...

... WiDDOWS IN DUN Last night Mr F. G. Widdows (Frater Aloy- sius) lectured in the Victoria Dundee, on the Mass. Long before the opening of the doors the street was blocked with am immense crowd, a vast proportion being ladies. When the doors were opened at seven o’clock the hall was crowded in a few minutes, while hundreds were unabie to admittance. ‘I'he hall was packed to suffocation. Mr ...

... MER BALFOUR ON THE GOVERNMENT POLICY. FORMATION OF A LIBPRAL ASSCUIA' at ST ANDREWS, A for the purpose of forming a Liberal tiation at St Andrews was held iast night in the Town Hall of that si . Dr Lees occupied the chair, and was sup; by B. our, advocate, Edinburgh; Princi Tull and a um Cu ber of gentlemen belonging to St Andrews and of the of the said he did not t Government, Mr 2 least ...

... MR READ, M.P., ON THE COUNTY BUARDS BILL Mr C. S. Read, M.P., spoke at the meeting of the Chamber of Agriculture at Norwich on Saturday on the County Beards Bill. The hon. gentleman said all the new County Boards would have todo would be to work the unworkable High- way Act, control the per idiots, revise the valuations—which wou! be no use whatever, as the Surveyor of Taxes would overrule ...

... THE LITERARY CONGRESS, The second sitting of this Internati was held yesterday—Mr Blanchard Jerrold i . Letters of invitation from the Vice- of the University of Oxford and the Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon were read, inviting those towns. Oxford will, in consequence, the delegates to visited on Friday and Stratford on Monday next. Letters were also read Victor Hugo, Berthold, Auerbach, Zaccone, ...

... HE VOLUNTEZRS. G. AY ARTILLERY RIFLE VOLUNTEER ATION. ct + mags The nineteenth ano al of the Volunteers ot and W. at the ranges on the farm of —— the New with the com and wi the other cc tions Io and In the Snider, and voll Moar occupied ite centres outers two. J, Me Galle: way Battalion Rifle Volunteers, as umpire, was Captain and Farrer, Galloway the afficers. Harper, G.A.B., acted ...

... REGISTRAR-GENERAL’S RETURNS, — The weekly return of births, deaths, and mar riages in the eight principal towns of Scotland for the week ending May 31, says:— The death-rate in the eight principal towns during the week ending with Saturday the 3lst May, 1879, was 232 thousand estima’ popuia- tien, This rate is0°3 above that for the d- p last r, and 0°] below that for the a sal it be — year. ...

... CHILDE AT GOOLE. At Goole yesterday the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, M.P., spoke at the opening of the Wes- leyan bazaar at some length, He referred to the fact that now not only was there teleratiop but a iffered in y feeling between those who opinions on Church or ecclesiastical matters. to do battle for his ‘Though a Churchman pre’ own Church when she was in the right, he did not see in that ...

... RETURN OF INVALIDS FROM THE The t Andean arrived at Portsmouth from the Cape yesterday with two officers, one 2 civil surgeon, three wives, fifty- six men, two women, and one child. All are invalided. t Carsons, 99th, while on vedette du’ at Inyazeni, was sprung upon by fitteen Zulus, and on oping off re- ceived five shots, one cutting otf two fingers of his right hand. Patrick Clifford was ...

... GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS (Recrer's PROROGATION OF THE | FRENCH CHAMBERS. Versailles, Aug. 2. M. Waddington, the President of the Ministry, read a decree to-day in the Senate Chamber of Deputies declaring the session closed. The Cham- ber will re-assemble on the 25th November or the lst of December. Previous to the prorogation, M. Matezieux, President of the Tariff Committee, stated in the Chamber ...