... I LETTERS rTo I HE~ EDITOR. HARD TIMES AND SCHOOL BOARA.& SIB,-Your correspondent, Farmer, deserves i- thanks for his letter on Hard Times and School id Boards, and I hope it will crme under the notice of if our School Board, Crathie and Braemar. If he wae r educated in the old parochial school, his letter is an e evident proof that in the north we, did not require a n new Edncatien Act. ...

... INTERESTING DETAILS. y Y The mail steamer Nile has just arrived at Plynuuth g from the West Indios. The Lima correspondent of the Panama Star and Herald, writing on October 29, ,, gives the following additional details in connectionl with the fight between the Chilian irouclads and a the Huascar, which have been supplied by an eye- e witness:- a At 10-25 a.m. the Huasear's flag was shot away, ...

... paid THE BULL-FIGHTS. con- - - Is re of Telegraphing on Tuesday night, the Daily News'n tring Madrid correspondent says:-The second day of the Royal bull-fights was very tame. The cold weather f -the marred the effect of the display made by the caballeros in the Plaza and their procession of carriages arnd ns o servants in fine eighteenth century liveries, led horses, t and alquazils in Philip ...

... :COL STAN LEt AT.TON. ..vII. To-ay 0 al. .tahiley, SeretayfrWr'wsWAY presented '~t n drs b dk ',tive Club with an addresto by the PrponCosra'Hl Men's Club, congratulating himohsapinm tJmk toa seatin the Cabinet. 'Theadrsftreerigohi i o'he~ fat tht il tnley ws is euhd to ut Palimntb Preston,, added- Your immediate axo SDconnection With Preston wva§ sieered osly,at tha call ofd40,W you were ...

... -_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 011 .1 coun flow %i.t atA djetil $SAxafllt was - Gove ABERDEEN, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 1879. ward crusa or MB GLASTONE, who is on a visit to the Ear1 and Countess of Breadalbane at Taymouth di Castle. was vspqrAVW;- A - -. B--. anti Uountess of Breadalbane at Taymouth Castle, was yesterday waited upon by a deputa tion from the Breadalbane and Killin Liberal Association ...

... R -ASTN A A- -e-=c--- -I- MR GLADSTONE AT A ERFELDY. Iy -b) i I I Igent gn SPEECH ON PARTY ORGANISATION. wa Sir wa ing ABSi~FELDY, Tuesday. Thely n a At ten o'clock this morning Mr Gladstone received orely tied an address from the Kilhn and Breadalbane Liberal t h Ulu Association at Taymouth Castle, the seat of the Earldec ant of Breadalbane. The deputation, consisting of about do flC ber 80 ...

... f the .~~iL which GALLANT LIFE~BOAT SaV a' POTHflIULLARX,North W vI CES Com' During the heavy gale experie110 ce on th - ay. wa the evening of the I11th in~tn th 18 coa are' Packet, of Carnarvon, showe Stan t nac ~hoo More ifeoatwhih i naed 5'gnl5, e dBic Iciaia Porthdinllaen Bay, in response to wh's the diIn ,hophilanthropist, and which belong fte t ellCkeorg arsLifeboat Institution, was at ...

... E1, GIN. St HELPLESSLY Da111ueC--James Younie, a labourer, lo rwas sent to pitOn by Baillie 1llack for 24 hours for a in contiaventiin of tlie Public-Houses Act. is A DRUNKzN I-IoS3TLi,-At the Burgh Court byesterday William Maczkenzie, an hostler, pled guilty of I to having, onl the 12th Novemnber,entered the Gordon b- IArms Hot;d and used abusive language towards the 'I proprietor, and ...

... --~~ | sduti 1 aeeting of the Fordyce School Board was h J hs~fees pglday in the office of the cel k, Nr Cheyne, Port- letti sr-SIc Stephen, ill tile albSence of MU Colville, presid- the i117 Tlhere were also present-Rev. Mr Grant, and of I Meas Chidva-. Forbes, ult Darno. Gee Ri1PlAIiS ON SCHOOLS. has t ber. MJ-. Grati reported, as to the repairs at Bog- ther rabacisab School, that he had got ...

... BISMARICK, A' 1 VIENNA. Lat GERMAYADFRAINCE. ~ty 'or (xve' ~.GtM. sIt Th eiofca~oisklBElLIN, Wednesday. Thesei-ofii&IPOi~cazcoreapondersceublishes agtn article which, after referring to Prince Bismarck's anvisit to Vienna and to the marks of distinction with t; lie which he has been received by the Emperor Francis c, M Josephi, the Austrian Government, and the people of t- ieVienna, concludes ...

... MR G6LASTONE AT HOME. ent of Me GLADSTONE has come back again braced sik da..ak, for the coming contest in Mid-Lothian, which M stores in his own opinion is destined to lay not merely Pr The that constituency but the whole of Scotland lee Ire now prostrate at the feet of the Liberal party. It is se( i mean to be hoped that he has enjoyed his holiday tal ve may abroad, that his political temper ...

... : i - - 1 , ,Y.I the THE ATTITUDE OF THE BOERS. SIR GARNET WOLSELEY INSULTED. THE EXPEDITION AGAINST l: SECOCOENI. MOIROSI'S MOUNTAIN TO BE ATTACKED. Er lhe! ,ph I be1 1 Iu arge [9 STANDARD TELEGRAM.] enl thbeir CAPE Tows-, October 7.' i tic and Sir Garnet Wolseley has issued a proclamat ion gu :urd- from Pretoria, in whic'h he says that, in order to a .azar remove all doubts as to the ...