... I : - S AXERD-BEN,: SATURDAY, MAY 31, 89 . -- ' 1. 9 IT is seldom that the House of Lords is content to I i devote itself to legislation while the members of the | L other. Chamber are ,einjoying their holidays., This, r hweve~r, has been the caje this week. Though the t Commons 'adjourned for the recess - on -Tuesday, the U. Upper House met on Thursday and yesterday. The attendance last night ...

... AB N - T S - ABERDEEN, THURBSDAY, MAY 22, 1879. UvOUVO*fl AVtUAsl the tide of troubles-- which threatens to over- whelm it, was discussed on the second reading in the r House of Commons yesterday. The proceedings at the outset lacked the interest wbich was expected to animate the debate, and It was not till towards the close of the sitting that members flocked in and im- , parted zest to the ...

... 1st. Nothing is more fatal to good table manners than haste; therefore be deliberate. Do not eat fast. 2nd. Soup should be taken from the side of the spoon with noiseless inhalation, the spoon being slightly tipped. 3rd. Keep the plate that is handed you b y carver lor servant; it confuses one who presides to have it passed from one to another. 4th. Cnt your bread into pieces and let them rest ...

... SOLID good sense may, as a rule, be exAeda from Lord Derby when he addresses his country- men on any ordinary topic. But even Homer nods; and some Of the Lancashire farmers must have been amused on Saturday to find his lord- ship so palpably napping, when he invited them to see causes of the prevailing agricultural dis- tress in the great industrial depression and in the consideration that ...

... oLDMACHAR PAROOHEAL BOARD. Th General Purposes Committee of this Board met yesterday afternoon-Mr Garden, advocate, chairman, presiding. ,DIVISION SUPPLY' COMMTTEE. The following were aippoilted tbe-South Division Supply Committee for the ensuing~year-Messrs Aiken, e Brown, Cul. Cadenhead, Messrs Copland, Duff, Duffus, if Dunn, Davidson, Eaton, Farquharson, Fiilayson, Dr Gilobrist, Messrs ...

... WHON you put yourself in the hands of a bm medical man, an engineer, a lawyer, or any W other specialist, he becomes for the time your master; and you must rest content to be his i obedient servant in more than the conventional R sense. There is reason for the apparent on- 1 reasonableness. Your professional adviser can- H not be held fully responsible unless he be St allowed fall power. Of ...

... THE VICTORIA- ROSS& it , . __ __ __ ig HEROES REWARDED. WAnR OFFI Mag2y Z, iS e The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify : her intention to confer the decoration of the-Victoria aGross on the. undermentioned officers and, solaiers of Her Majesty's army,. whose: claims-have been sub- mitted for Her Majesty's. approval, for -their -gallant .conduct in the defence ofiRourke's Driftron the ...

... WEA¶1H.ER STATISBTICS OF TEIE UITNED KINGDOM, OBo AGstICCLTURAL AND e.SAHL'.ARY PtiitiOSES, Y3OB THE WEBE ENDIS-G JULY 7, 1879. t(Lisu by tfie Meteoro~ogcal Offie.) ;1; ' einperature Itain~fail. 3r . -f7 X Aasove -t iu,.o* ur More K: Distre. * ts = ,2 orhelue N.'. s> fall lesbs ilusn ie~~ ~~~ - rl .. -X: ';: Meuil kta.yX f ,r . ie 2.e;Lei - - ek. w-. - -i y- Seiotlatnd, East! 66 47 5i 4 belowf ...

... coST OF THE HARBOUR BIL DETAILE ACCOVST OP THE X . ,fviowing detailed account of the expenses in I >co with (1) the prOmotIon of an th6e pre. q jo:! meeting the opposition to the A brte r tfroa 3 Act, 1879, and (2) the opposition > ur 0omiissioners and the Townl Council to the l ab dn Harbour Constitution Amendient- Bill, l ilber lad before the Commissioners at their monthly P t oday. The ...

... SUBMISSION OF 1triE BEY OF TUNIS. PAKRIS, Thursday evening.La France of this evening announces that the Boy of Tunis yielded to-day com- pletely on all point An orologi will be maple with great pomp to the French Consul. An inquiry into the matter affecting Count Saucy will be ordered, and the three public functionaries designated by the French Consul will be dismissed the service. Those three ...

... SOCIAL- lEu- - - SOCIAtL MIEKTINGS. 1rt ez. NS-EV DDELP-The first refliOn of the New1: ltt Literary Associationila a; eld within the Toe i.a;f, N.s I Dcer, on Wiednesdy eenling. AlthouaLh t:e went! was rather stormy, about 400 were j'res'nt. T-'- r we occupied by rO Jon Souste, A.M., tie tl, , ftle :S'-cicl~tion. After tea t 0 C:Ill:::;-.i- l I v ry able and talented addLese, i b c oIf ...

... T THE ATTITUDE OF YAKOOB EHAN. THE BRITISH TROOPS READY TO ENTER CABUL. LAHORE, Monday. The Indian Government has received no informa- tion as to an intention on the part of Yakoob Rhan to come to Jellalabad. General Browne is ready to advance at a moment's notice. General Biddulph has crossed the Ehojuk Pass. Very great mortality prevails among the camels. MOVEMENTS OF THE BRITISH TROOPS. ...