... 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 ...

... The Cincinnati Gazette will to-morrow print report* from the iron regions of Ohio and adjoining States on the condition end prospects the iron trade. The statements are prepared by the managers of the leading iron and steel manufacturing works, blast furnaces and rolling miiia. They all speak a marked increase in activity in all branches the trade. Furuacemeu and manufacturers are more hopeful ...

... _ Last night Mr F. G. Widdows (Frater Aloysius) lectured in the Victoria Hall, Dundee, on the Mass. Long before the openiug of the doors the street was blocked with aa immense crowd, a vast proportion being ladies. When the doors were opened at seven o'clock the hall was crowded in few minutes, while hundreds were unable to obtain admittance. The hall was packed to suffocation. Widdows ...

... READ, M.P., THE COUNTY BOARDS BILL. C. S. Read, M.P., spoke at the meeting of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture at Norwich Saturuay on the County Boards Bill. The hon. gentleman said all the new County Boards would have to would be to work the unworkable Highway Act, control the pauper idiots, revise the valuations—which would use whatever, the Surveyor Taxes would overrule everything they ...

... Paris*.—'Tbe the Goran Ptriali School Bawd mat tha of Kinning Park and Plantation last night in Lamb- Mil Street Public School, Goran, for the pnrpeee oi submitting statement of the proceedings of. the Boarii during the put three year*. Provect Mair, who was called upon preside, briefly explained the object of the meeting, after which M'Onie detailed the educational work carried daring the ...

... in pond near his father's bouse. had been p.aying at the side tne pond along with som. oompamons about the same age, when be slipped and lell in. His companions tne alarm, but a considerable tune elapsed beiore the oody was recovered, and life was consequently extinct, football Accident. —At a match played on Saturday on the Recreation Ground 'Ihornliebauk, James M'Lachian, one the players, ...

... A Spanish newspaper prints the following >—A member the English Parliament has had the curiosity to give the following statistics relative to the stale of matrimoay ia the city London : county of Middlesex . —Wives woo have left their Husbands, 1*12; husbands who have fled from their wives, 2371; married people divorced, married people living ia perpetual warfare, 191,023; those wuo bate each ...

... License Confirmation Committee—Refusal to Confirm a Grocer's License. —At meeting this committee, held the Town Hall yesterday, two new licenses which had been granted Magistrates at the recent Licensing Court were dispell of. That granted for the new hotel in Duke Street was unanimously continued, but the grocer's license granted to Air Smith, Olencniin .'Square, was not continued, this ...

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... FrantAL or ths Right Hoa. T. F. Emm or Dl'KCU.—The funeral of this gentleman took place Saturday. It was attended by the tenantry and workers on the estate the about 150. The more immediate friends of the deceased assembled at noon in Dalquharraa fastis, where short religious service conducted by the Kev. Mr Gitfen of Edinburgh, formerly pariah minister of Daiily. The coffiu waa borne shonldsr ...

... THE firs. On i'ridajr. Captaia Oswald Duanikier, the Conservative candidate for the county Jb'iie, addressed a private U Li* supporters in Anstruther Town Hall—Colonel Anstruthsr Thomson of presiding. The lion, candidate, after statiug that with their present majority the Government M no oause to dissolve Parliament until had to l>e dona, expressed his opinion that the Ministry, by their fix ...

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