... BUNGLING+ EXECUTIONS. 'Under this title the Dail1y Tel egrapk is publishing - a series of letters designed to show that our method of executing criminals is uncertain. cruel. and barbar- I ous. In yesterday's issue the Telegraph prints the I following letter by a Surgeon, who dates from i Gloucester :-With three other medical men I was present at the execution of Edward Smart, in the jail ...

... q~ I--P-- -1 -41, ~-;IA bazaar, which has for its object the liquidation of 'si ft. the debt on, the Free Church of Leslie and Preminay, tU built about three years ago, was opened iii the Pubuic W. Hall, hIsob, yesterday, by the Earl of Kintore, and ta size will be continued to-day. The existing inicumbrance a (4 amounts to about £100, but in addition to this a similar sumn is required for ...

... LETTEPS TO THE ED)ITOR. SIPR GEORGGE MIACPHERSOIN_ GRANT'S I1U GAMNIE PANACEA. I -r Piuscarden, 29th Aug1ust, 1879. re SiR.-Judging from the speeches and letters which St Lave recently appeared in the newspapers, there would St Icli seem to be consilderable variety of opinion as to what'! M the practical effect wounld be of an inalienable right7 given to farmers to kill ground game on the ...

... A favourite subject with the old Flemish painters is! it i the Kermesse, the annual fete which the industrious, ma thrifty Netherlanders celebrate by, for once, breaking | rest with their penurious habits and giving themselves up wal wholly to feasting and amusement. One of the best, alm the Trouble-Fete, has been lately added to the waQ collection of modern pictures in the Brussels Museum. ...

... ALA-IING RAILWAY ACCIDENT. jE SCOTCH EXPRESS WRECKED. ENGINE HURLED OVER A BANK - of the most complete railway blocks which occurred on the Midland Railway took ever aesterday morning between Millhill and Hendon p1ee Thle accident occurred to what is known StatOfStiCester Eixpress, which is timed to leave tl S3 the Leidueter Es Si that town at 1-44 a.m., due at St Pancras London, S it appeal- ...

... the PARis, Thursa~ay. S oney The review of thle position of affairs in Central I i the Asia consequent on the Treaty of G-andamnak is con. pe of tinued in to-night's .7ournat des Debats. The 6th, was 7th, and 8th articles are taken into consideration, nade but before proceeding to discuss them in detail Id Iof the Debats remarks that the great value of the treaty oved is that it will restore ...

... T!eu LOYDON, Fcidlay, 6p.m. day so ver the United K3ingdom to- csding pre~tt inlProvemeflt o- that of the few pre- flt b, hut it seems likely that the change will %ieh v; P ermnanent one. The deep depression I T our north-western coasts on '~ter ros onlieacieul Norway to-day, and the baro- coasts. The wind, after blowing. a Itrilal i from the westwardl in England and siv thte mt has lulledI ...

... An American paper states that the Treasurer of the United States, Mr Gilfillan, has completed a t4 e collection of keys to the Treaiury vaults and c r money-boxes in use before the introduction o ,n combination locks. Th~Alection numbers 1 J ;, keys. arranged in a neaOW'alnut case, which now f d decoates the wa the Treasurer's office ti t> Tht ini.ckroilogiaV .rdr i&.iYer~tl 1 X ,nat~ac of the ...

... , - 1 Tr-- - - - ' A - it thuey To 'T'he will of Her Majesty the Queen Dona MtL:iii all of Christina de Borbonay Borbon. was proved in L.-; i hild- by Don. Lino Munoz, the acting executor. The: ,tt [reds sonal estate in England is sworn under £6041. 'i Ony; testatrix directs that 5000 recited masses sliI Dners performed for her soul. 50100 for the souls of hel on. husbands, 1000 for the souls ...

... e ,,LONDON. Thursday, 6p.m. Wl We have again to record a day in which the weather e has been wild, unsettletu, wet, and squally over almost d all parts of the Unitedl Kingdom. The promise of some ;t improvement. which seemed to be indicated by the rise e of the barometer on o*m western and south-western coasts on Wednesday afternoon, was soon caneelled, for in the nighta newaud large ...

... That was a cutting thing poor Buckstone said once sive of Irish arts and manufactures :- Sir, it seems to Sul me they principally consist at present of whisky and ,ted manslaughter. But pat appreciates wit, even at hig the own expense, and will hardly thinik unkindly of the ;ant actor now. de- The enormous goosel erry no longer expands; the ms- shower of frogs falls flat ; even the sea ...

... IF the meeting of the British Association, which closed this week in Sheffield, cannot be I spoken of as equalling in magnitude some of its predecessors, it can, and doubtless will be, inscribed on its annals as one of the quietest and pleasant gatherings which has been held under its auspices in recent years, Fewer 'reaty lions roared than usual, but the one or two i fee how- secured were ...