... 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 ...

... ELECTION. INEWS. THE REPRESENTATfQO OF MID-LOTHIAN. [ 0 MR GLADSTONE'S CANDIDA RE. S A meeting of the electors and non-electors favour- S able so the return of MrGladstonefornid-Lothian. was ei held last night in the Assembly Rooms, West Calders There was aZ lerge attendance, and Air Smith, Muir. house, occupied the chair. S On the motion of Dr Watson. seconded by the Rev. Mr Wardrop, it was ...

... QJfl lt U SJ V £2-tL-fL 1. I. th Aniqetrcnl - 18 3 An inquest recently held at the Castle Inn, Castle- gr gate, York, respecting the death of Joseph Cethhert, en 67 years of age, farmer and cow keeper, and also a co!- th lector of taxes. of Clifton, near York. The deceased's ga wife said he had not been in good health tor some ar time past, having suffered from an inward pain. He N. had also ...

... ;C0RiRSp NDENCE, THE TEACHING OF AGRICULTTJURAL CHEMIISTRY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ABERDEEN JOURNAL SIR,-The euclosed letter from Professor Jam.ie de son, Aberdeen, tin the mDeans of providing the teach- to lng of agricultural chemistry, although referring an specially to the Arbroath district, is of s rnuch te general interest that you will perhaps be good enough ac to find space for its ...

... THE OrxNIc OF TvIE i ESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL.-On Tuesday evening a social meeting was held in the Seafieid Street Hall In connection with the opening ceremony of the new Wesleyan Methodist Chapel-Provost Couttg presidinr. There waS a large . attendance, nearly 400 being pesent. After tea, which was served on tables decorated uith beautiful flowers, and presided over by a nukber of l dies, 31 ...

... A SWISS VIEW OF THE PARtT TAKEN BY ENGLAND IN THE EASTERN QUESTION. The Eastern question forms the leading political topic of last year. From the 1st of January to the w. 31st of December it continued to unfold a course of extraordinary events, opening with the passage of the tj Balkans and the capture of Adrianople, and closing si1 with the passage of the Ehyber defiles ant the capture de of ...

... kBERDEEN, MONDAY, FEB. 3, 1879. THAT we are at wa- with Cetewayo, the perverse King of Zululard, is now placed beyond a doubt. | n A, - - L - .. I - - -. .1 . . I . .. Advices have been received uip to the 14th lIt., and cc on that date hostilities were expected to commence cc between the Zulus and the Imperial troops. Cetewayo ra failed to avail himself of the eight additional days o( ...

... RICHARD BRINSLEY SHEREDAN, POET, DRAMATIST, STATESMD. Lots might Mr Alexander Forbes, jun., delivered a lecture in the Song School, Aberdeen, on the life and writings of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, poet, dramatist, statesman. The lecture was in aid of the funds of the Sick-Cbildren's Hospital. Notwitbstanding the incle- mont nature of the weather there was a good attend- Dean of Guild Walker ...

... THE MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS. DISTRESS IN CABUL. THE ATTITUDE OF YAXOOB KHAN. We have received the following telegram from the India Office:- [TELEGRAM FROM VICZaoY-FEBR UARy 14TH.] Stewart was at Robat on the 9th, two marches from Candahar. Part of force returning from Khelat-i- I Ghilzai by Arghassan and Argandab Valleys, in which I supplies have been easily procurable, reconnaisances f and ...

... A STERN SA N ) ITARY INSPECTOR. I ..I jit z!way PLAGiuE. is the great Sanitary Inspector- Ib 'rrev, General, and the various epidemics that from paid timle' to timne afflict Ppoulous centres of humanity are efficient Ass~istant Inispectors. If there be a ox) for dirty city or a dirty street, these officers of p' iso of health find it out, and relentlessly enforce the IV and proper penalties. ...

... THE AFGHAN 'WAR. M O VE MEN TS OF GENERALS BIDDULPH AND STEWART. 14ELmAD, February 14£ General Biddulph's small force is examining the country about Kala-i-Bist. Captain J. Broome, 2ndl Punjaub Cavalry, had a narrow escape. ,Riding past a c hamlet, an Afghan hastily advanced, and had almost a reached Captain Broome, when a native officer accomn- panying him exclaimed the Afghan has a knife! ...