... THE IRISHR UNIVE SI ~Y EDUC.&IION tThe, Times remarks thaltthe Irish University Educaz- .tion question is now the st anding difficullty of Irish politics, and, consequently, of all homce politics. n lnii it is settled tire Irish problem! is unsolved, and .until it is solved the whole political arurosph~ereis over- .cast. The late Goveronrerit bad, at least, the courage of their convictions, ...

... ray PRINCE OF WALES' PRESENTS AND IN. clev the DUS TRIAL AND ART MUSEUM FOR ABERDEEN. tbe Ing is S . oSip,-On my return from Edinburgh I found the or' die following letter from B~aillie Macdonald and enclosure tes the waiting me. .int !et- Intiak-Prince of Wales'Presents.pr Aberdeen, 7th June, 1879. the aft; Alex. Walker, Esq., Dean of Guild.'in moe MIY DExaEA,-I enclose you anote just ...

... 3 ELGIN.-For the past ten days the weather has been - very unfavourable for all kinds of outdoor labour, heavy showers of rain, and occasionally hail have fallen with I little interminslson, and consequently the ground is so wet that many of the farmers in our neighbourhood have been unable to get the land ready for turnip sowing. As yet the hay crop is very short. If we had plenty of sunshine ...

... 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, ...

... SCHOOL EXAMIINATIONS. Pruta iE PUBLIc SCHfOOL-The Oldmxachar SchoollIas BeardI mlet yesterday at Primrose Pablic School on the {H o~iil of their annual visitation-Rev. Mir Shepherd, pr the ch.,raisuil of the Board, presidting. There were pre- at sent from the Board Messrs Duff of Anafield, Craig, I andi ClilSk; .4n among the visitors wrere Rev. Mir Jamnie- t h son, U v. Mr COdder, Rev. M~r ...

... Loungers in the 'dozy old kennels. of cobwebbed - Nassau Street may have lighted upon a. giltedged volume o£ poemss. purportsing to be .pr~odactions'of- a beautifal young girl, whose face in 'steel eagraving'em-. .bellishes the frontispiece.i . he authoress, it is uander- atood, wras the dauighter of a poet of soe repute, .who r .died prsnstturely, throowhtliterary failare andogpiates,. .at ...

... a Xo be £80,000. S~~H ~ WETHR - LOSDOI, Sun&v, S pr2 OS]L The weaher is mnoderately Ene t#i morn ir ov..> greater part of the British Isles, bmt i2: :lt w5-> - are south-cest the sky is becoming loudy n- zr.h *osl,¢ raiH commencng. In France thec s}ky L> .vewsst a Pra-a good deal of mist is reported. Tenipe .nre i, dined to fall in the wsest, but the chant~e- esew* though sligbt, are upan- ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... oLDMACHAR PAROOHEAL BOARD. Th General Purposes Committee of this Board met yesterday afternoon-Mr Garden, advocate, chairman, presiding. ,DIVISION SUPPLY' COMMTTEE. The following were aippoilted tbe-South Division Supply Committee for the ensuing~year-Messrs Aiken, e Brown, Cul. Cadenhead, Messrs Copland, Duff, Duffus, if Dunn, Davidson, Eaton, Farquharson, Fiilayson, Dr Gilobrist, Messrs ...

... 0 nei1 bao e L DON, Wednesday, 6 p.m. ade The barometer is now falling slowly at all stations e excepting Scilly, and a depression is found to be lying ad a off our south-west coasts, to which region it advanced e during last night Over the Bay of Biscay and 'at und Scilly the mercury is rising again, and the winds in toot d the west of France are inclined to veer, so that the cure 1 ...

... ]THE ZULLU WAR-. THE MILITARY ARERANGEMENTS. ter of BUNGLING AT HEADQU ARTERS to r VACILLATION OF LORD CHELM$SFORD. mg CHANGyE OF PLANS. re- s, 0--)fOVFFNTS -OF CETEWAYO. IUs re ~ L STAInARD SPEciAL TELEGRAM | , is, Dtu5D E, 3Iay am An important move is at last t be made. Qwia , to the diffic-lty of transport the infattry ,nn di g vance. =nto Zluland, and are to remain at Lat . mnd man's ...