... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... p I ;I ,rtnre - and As the Session rolls on, and the foreign and lit an colonial troubles of the country increase instead a the of disappearing, the prospect of a not remote f the dissolution is calculated to raise feelings of Id the Lee ianxiety in all who would wish to see the Eastern L inr question and the African imbroglio disposed of Bank- as quickly as possible. We do not mean that tdhe ...

... SCOTCH THRIFT AND INGFNIITY. s niteresting illustration of Scot'ch thrift and in- ohie: kgenuity is at present being afforded by the iron- the - masters of Lanarkshire. In competition with their ordir brethren in England the northern makers of ir stair have always suffered from the inferior quality of the mtis e coal available for smelting purposes, the production have - per furnace, in the ...

... TEE WEATHER. airY LONDONS, Tuesday, 6 P I ,IAMThe wavether during to-day, though still dull ...

... THE EUSTON. SQUARE MYSTERY.- . .CLUB TO THE VICTIM. A. Canterbury correspondent, telegraphing- on Saturday, says .-The remains of the female found at to L4 histon Square, are now believed to be thoseof:the, ve9 .body of a maiden lady named Hacke.-.of Carterbury . I who has been 'missing for Bore 18 months LaW alr night a Xdetective, cai down from London, aid brought with him agold watch and ...

... DAMER AND PRESENTATION TO ESSRS8 J. & W. MARTIN, ABERDEEN. Last night a number of, gentlemen, entertained the jrtr brothers James and William Martin to dinner Tow the T a b imperial Hotel on ties occasion of preaenting to them caly a tastimonest- from numerous f riends as a token of All respect for th~em, more especially in their connection cron *with thes cattle and meat trade for upwards 'of ...

... n ie BY the death of Mr Butt Ireland loses the Be formest of her native politicians-the one man tthrough whom, for a number of years past, she .e has been able to have herself represented in Lo Parliament as the owner of an intelligible. s- policy-the one Irish politician who seemed to )f believe in his country more than he believed in ir himself, and whose love of country rendered is him ...

... H ARD DRINK1-N. It irciribtis'how the reputation of -the English as a nation of hard drinkers-has lingered abroad long after i it has ceased-to-be deserved-at least hb the waeil-edu- Irated classeis. It is still an article of faith with most foreigners that the'E6glish drink, and the prejudice stubbornly resists the evidence of facts; for in the British colonies all over the Continent ...

... A. *? -? -.-- LA? - ½ -]3id-i, Aikevjun., Master of >lc founder,. Louvauj in regar.d to the beh~j jQ -~coa L-hWiChll to M. Van Aerschldt . ,rom rC een 4th Junei.8S wrt yw time e Sgo, are 'only now beong cj considered. 0 wbllgf A clc is in course of const byte Bland &0 Co., Croydon, and the °Towyn Cuniiltt, resolved to provide ene bell of 3Bet aCUtlbl whic must stiike the hoezrs, and also (and0 ...

... IMPERIALPARL1 AMENT. [FROM OURS PARLIAENTARY CoRNE5PONDENT.]f .d WESTNSTER, Wednesday evening,. f; The attendance in the H~ouse of Commons at the al earlier stage of the proceedings was not such as to in- I dicate a general prevalence of excitement in~ connec- f ion with the Irish University 'question, which was it the principal arid only topic of discussion. A- Hnouseint was made, however, ...

... 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 ...