... THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT SnEFFIELD.I - C(otor OURi owN REPORTER.) ye SHEPOTiaD Wednesday Night. in The laoty-ninthi annual meceting Of the British Aseocia as ti~on for th~e Advancement of Science was commenced lei to-night ino Sheffleld, by thle delivery of the Presidential Address. For the first daLY of their visit, the Association ?? had (lull and showery weather'. Under these oir- th ...

... YORKSTUIRf STUbENTS IN CAMDRIDGR HIGHER LOCAL EXAMINATIONS. C^atrsr.hDGE, Tuesday Tile followingare the full results with roitard te; Yz shire students and students passed at the Yorkhiur Cetntro at the recent Higher Local Examination; , telegraphic list of the names of the succesisful candidatte in which appeared a. few days since:- irouap R. IDivinity). Leeds Centre-H. Denham, 173, Belle Vua ...

... LOCAL AND G(E NERAL O. A meeting of the Hunslet United Liberal Association, which lies been formed to amalgamnate thle ~.different sections of the Liberal party in Hlunslet, was a held ori Triursday eveoine atti LbeaCl, r va ~arsliit~le n te cair Ar. Aid. Bower attended. irs COthe course ofth co evening, and said it gave him pleassuce er to belong to an. assocration forined wvith tile ...

... NATIONAL ARTILLERY ASOOIATION. I Q -1- -l-l 1 TT Ia t S riOuuanyNECs, Frisny Night. ln the officers' repository competition for Geoeral McMsrdb'.s cnallenge cup, the officers of the North were again victorious to-day. Tile shift performed Was mounting nnd disaloating guns. The first and second detachments of eacia squad wore composed nf eightil5ee men, Captain Chay being No. 1 of tie northern ...

... GENERAL FORE IGN NEWS. I ?? THE TURCO-GREEK FRONTIER. C0NSTANTIrOrag, Saturday.-Sir Henry Layard has submitted to the Porte the nalimes of the following persons as Europeau Inspectors of the Turkish Finances in Asia: - Acessrs. James Calvert, Horace Guarraceino, and Stoney. TCle Porte sent a despatch to-day to the Ambassadors of t'io Great Powers in Constantinople replying to their recent note ...

... O INERAL FOREIGN NEWS. (ThUTi5's TELEGIAMS.) FRANCE. passls, T ?? particulars resp 60ting the ,,sult of the elections for the Bureaux of the Councils. deneral show that the Republiians have now a majority of 57, the number of seats held by the Monarchists ,ieig 3 a. The Republicaus have during the elections gained four seats and lost one. pAins, Tuesday Evening.-The report contained in a ...

... NEWVAMAN HALL AND MARY WYATT. .. . .. I - . t1 I / I- _ - ?? Mr. Arthur Harvey Wyatt, of Corse Vicarage, Glou- cester, hlis addressed the following letter to the Editor of the Slaf/brdsh/ire Adrrltiser :- Sir,-As a Sialhordshlire man, and a member of a fanily woll known Diu that county, I am auro you wvill kindly permit me a short space in your columns while I mnake a lew observations upon ...

... receipts into and payments out ,Xclinequec between April 1, 1579, andI Attg. icEVE'NUEB AND OTHERO RECEIPTS. Totalll eceit5t Total Thalcet Esti. into the IReceipts niii e te exhceue l or yslDY.Apn. ],t 187,to ' mdc of in,4: Aug 10, ibiO. Year. toe on st April, 1:lkof E.tglatl.. 5,004,818I 5,4622,7077 'ICU .. Louo ?? shares ?? 2fi,000, 000 0,M3,0 7,258.000 27,270,000 0,24S,090 0,719,O00 IL) ...

... RAILWAY NTAT16TICS. We have received the general report to the Board of Trade by Mr. Caleratt and Mr. Giffen on the share and loan capital, traffic in passengers ansi goods, aud the work- ing, experditure and liet profits froms railway workieg of the railway companies of the Uuited Kilingdom, for the year 1878. The final result of railway workina, as shown in these figures, ie statedt as ...

... The Tinies ?? language of disappointment in i which we have too often to criticise the unfruitful labours of a barren session must again be used of the Parliamentary year which comes to an end to-day. Few, indeed, are the fruits that Ministerial promises have borne, but this storility is only a part of the default chargeable upon the session of 1879. Little work has been accomplished, and of ...

... The Conference of the Association for the Reform and Cotdaoctiou of the Law of Nations was resumed yesterday, in the Guildhall, London, Sir TRnAvEs Tw-cs presising.-, Dr. B.B.W1NDT read a paper on the Law of Affroightrmest, in which he gave aa account of what bad already becn done in regard to the subject, and invited those who took an interest in the matter to appoint a committee for tho ...

... NATIONAL ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION, ?? wn Revlo ?? M -1, SnoIBntrNiesO COAP, Thursday Night. The four brigades forming the second division of Artillery Volunteers, which bavo this year encamped here, have practically completed their work and recaived their prizes and instructions, and it only remains now for the officers to compete for General Maeturdo's Challenge Cup in repository practice, and ...