... The second sitting of this international Congress was held yesterday—Mr Jereold again presiding. Latter* of invitation from the Vioe- Chanoalior of the University Oxford and the Mayor of Stratford-on-Aron were read, inriting the delegate* those towns. Oxford will, consequence, be visited on Friday and Stratford Monday next. Letters were also read from Victor Hugo, Berthold, Auerbacu, Kiene, ...

... THE BET. WHTTfc. ' A public meeting of the congregation of the parish of sod other* held in the Perish Church, Tharedey evening. for the of making presentation the Rev. John Whyte, minister of the pari»h. The wee very well filled. On the motion Provost Borthwick, seconded by Mr Hutton, Mr George Mason, elder, took the chair. After devotional exercises, the Chairhas presented a handsome ...

... MilTKlLL—Municipal Election.—The usual municipal election for MnryMU took place yesterday, and during the day the bnrgfi was characterised by all the buttle and excitement incidental to such an occasion. It was tbe first contested election since the burgh was divided into wards, and the election was one unnsual interest Cabs were freely used for the conveyance of voter* to the polling stations ...

... A statement showing the number of wrecks, with their cargoes, crews, Ac., reported during the week ended 3d May, d' .1 JCMmfsbA Nationality* .J Name. Port where Cl 0 - •=' ill i i British. 14) LiT«rpool.. I*-G«nenl .. All. b Sunderland* BaUmS. AIL Ceiia Liverpool.. 13® Rail'j iron Ail. Eliza HQS) Faveraham.; Coal* » Kovtatcr.. 177 Coals LLauaUjr., ISO Mandaoca AIL »t Scotch ...

... Salabarg, we see mentioned among the guests, oar feilow-tewnsuieu, Zavertal, lather and tuu. Mr Zavurtal, scuior, we understand, an intimate friend of Karl Mozart, and is m IMB— ton of two valuable manuscripts of th« immortal Mozart, als* a Leopold Mozart, his father, and a very successful portrait in oil of Constanz, Mozart's wife. ' iSignnr poornesses also letters frum hut Irleifei, Karl ...

... Miuvoanx.—At meeting the Executive Committee Tuesday evening—Provost Watt presiding—3o cases were before the Reifctf Tha expended by the omnmittee ia provisieaa for two weeks ending iart was £12 IBs 6d. A dntrihuCKm was also mads. The amount pen ded the Joint-Belief Committees from the &th December to tha 11th February was About 90 tons of have been distrilnitsd bum several district bsyond the ...

... WEDNESDAY MORNING, In the of Lords yesterday a large ■amber of bills were advanced a stage, among them beiag the Public Health Act, 1875, Amendmendment Interments) Bill, the second reading wnich was moved by Lord .Stanhope. The bill, which is in three clauses, provide* greater facilities for the construction and maintenance of cemeteries by Local Authorities. Lord Granville moved its rejection ...

... The weekly retain of births, death*, and marriajes in the eight principal towns of Scotland for the week ending Saturday, May 31, The dratVt-rate in the eight principal towm during the week ending with Saturday the 31st May, 1879, was per thousand estimated population. Thi* rate »o'3 above that for the corresponding week last year, and o*l below that fur the previous week the present year. The ...

... SECOND DIVISION—Toesdat, Feb. 25. Tub Coal Coup ant. To-day the report of Mr Molleson, C.A., provisional official liquidator appointed by the Court, came up for consideration. A summary of the report appeared in the' Herald a few days ago. Mr for the company, moved terms of the resolutlou adopted a meeting by three-fourths the creditors, that their Lordships should exercise the powers ...

... Transport arrived at Portsmouth yes- lay with the irst Regiment from South Atrk-fc There were a good many persons on the jt'.ty the Egypt took her berth alongside, and » 'twtv cheer was sent forth greet the return th* ,-aEant reziment. This is the battalion whic'i *»» cut at Isandula, and which was re-formed some time .subsequently to that affair lie IkaUalian numbers neu, under the co.amand ...

... The annual sittings the Convention of Royal Burghs commenced in tlie Justiciary Court-Room, Kdinburgh, yesterday—Lord Provost Boyd in the chair. The proceedings having been opened with prayer by Rev. Lees, it was intimated by Mr Harris, the Clerk, that 64 burghs bad sent commissioners, and only two —Pittenweem and Culroes—had not done so. TBI RECORDS. On the minutes of committee meetings being ...

... or* i-outrotiEn.) I'll forecast which we gave of the harvest IST! might, with few alterations, reprinted being many respects applicable to the present year. far as regard* time, it ia ■very way the same, the chicf difference in the forecast that year and this snd it gratifying one—consists in the fact that the crop* the present season, thuy can be gathered time, will more productive, any rate ...