... DESPATCH OF FOREIGN M1AILS FROM LONDON I =-- - I- . 1 - I Despatch of next Mails from Next Will s Destlnations, London. Mail due to t1l r- Australia (S. &W.) via S'thampt'n . . .Dec. 11 Mdg. Dec. 22 Shri Tasmnania&Victoria5 ria Brindisi Dec. 19 Evg. Dec. 15 rsce: Bermuda ria New York .. . Dec. 4 Erg. . perio. Brazil, Monte C - via Liverpool . Dec. 9 Evg. Dec. 2 rials ...

... cOWror. Rn-nn - per- IMPO A ju1 'NIMPORTT SCHOOL BOARD POsaOUTION.-Before made Sheriff Scott Moncrieff, in the Banff Sheriff Court who yesterday-William Slessor, farmer, residing at Shiel- vard burn, Inverkeithny, was accused of contravening the olin, 5th section of the Education Act by having, on 26th land, May last, taken into his employment as a herd or nber- servant in other agricultural ...

... is elf. An American journal, devoted to the intere S Ind of fire brigades, gives a very compreheusive lis: of Ira- what may be called historical fires. La.mn.. vvc I are reminded, has had more than one * -s: =e. ia- ! It had one in 798, another in 9 an 3 flirQ rs Ee 1086 the greatest parf of London ber --s:.yei be- on all three occasions. Judging bv z.'- r -o' pe. houses destroyed, our great ...

... THE - ?Ttfl?RThU'C1{t?JS. |ITPORTANT CONCE8SIONS. jbdgedau 1I, .hat I EXPEC1TEDAIJSTrER-.I''>CHANiGES. boldly 1: PROBABLE, REINSST kkEM9T 'lOY Ihasp~rO MIDbHAT PA(CHA. , use, thai a - ., . thatpat LABANOFF'S RETURN. aCCeSacO] * T~L~AM.]prematu e tRaUTER'S. theTineVR .h ,,ssia ONTANTINOPLE, Saturday. diffipult Russian Ambassador has returned from m ..de u d LivadiL' '''' plait. a&T n No ...

... A GI1RL'S ADVENTURES WITH A BE.4 t in after About a month ago BMiss Alice Corey, of -ci e im- York City, went to visit her uncle, who owns rters small farm in the mountains near Hunter's Raige 'I. Pa. Miss Corey is about 16 years old. Be lows, °Wo~f ofcle has a daughter, Clara, also aged aboatl glish years. Her father having hut one son, Clara hi, the for years helped to do the work on the ...

... a KA sped i-, general mesetitig of tile sli-aichoi1lers Of tule 1I0eili;Ir Cuai Cullnpitny, to Wconfirm thle resolution an iced at at the general nileetiug of the compnITly on the l!' .Jainuary in Iefesesice to issuing £100, 000 necw 71 percitt -pt e:r ne tck, wa~s held in Queesi Street LI !flal, EdinbuirghI. yesterday ufternoon. a Mr HenryAiknFlik.caraadeei e niieti-,g, of e a hrirgem ants ...

... PAROCHIAL BOARtc.-The monkibly meetinig of the BIord r was held on Tuesday eve Airrgr-3r . S; George Iin the chair. The bauidnss bhfote the meeting was no- FRASERBtP.GH. L'RAMATIC ENTERTAIN3ISENTS.-ThL first of :I series of dra;matic clitelt;ahlllel~t; wsYI le 01Teiiy ofllll drmncetrtruort a iven rib Tuesday eseoitig. ii the Harjboulr Hail, by the Frrseiburgh Urii n Drallotic Society. Tire ...

... Wn read of a personage who has great it, wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. The tribes of marauders and c murderers who have long infested the bill ci. countries, now being included within our north- w, western Indian frontier, are discovering that er their time is short, and are excited accordingly. re Our troops are having active employment in the 6: way of guarding ...

... 1. THE speech of Sir C. Dilke last night, still aIt more than that of the Marquis of Lansdowne on re-Tuesday night, Look the unhappy aspect of all ed attack on an absent man who, whatever error Sir he may have committed, is certainly in a better Lc- position than his critics to know what he has a BS9 been about ; and who has, at all events, never he laid himself open to the accusation which ...

... if some -I whede STRATHBOGIE FREE PRESEYTERY. etroted read This rev, body met in the vestry of the HuntIly Free ientous! Church yesterday-Rev. Mr Grant, Botriphnie, mode- aknow- rator. The other members present were :-Rev. Messrs d it is i Burnet, Huntly; Johnstone, 11arnoch; Ingram, ire also Rothiemay; Stoekdale, Grange; Stewart, Gartly; sd that Gray, Foohabers ; Macauly, Glass ; Moffat, ...

... uhp &$. AT ED INLOUGH. . THE REGISTr norsE Yesterday forenoon M1r Cross, the Home Secretary, visited the Register House, Edinburgh, accompanied by the Lord-Advocite, Mr Jamiieson, Crown agent, and Mr Badenoch Nicolsor, secretary to the Lord-Advo- cate. Mr Cioss had interviews with 3lr Pitt Duadas, Depute Clerk Register; Mr J. Clerk Brodie, Keeper of the Register of Sasines; Mr J. C. Christie, ...

... ! THE PETITION TO COMPEL DELIVERY OF Al a- , WIFES PERSON. Answers were boxed yesterday in the Second Division ure of the Court of Session for Mr James Caird, of the Sea- sing field Arms Hotel, parish of Callen and county of BVitiff, nt's in the petition of the Rev. William Walter Roberts, re- n siding in Chelsea. The petitioner, who avers that he wth- as married to Ann Shannon Caird in ...