... AYR, Gouim~pry annual meeting of Ayr Guil Court was held in the Assembly Rooms yes Provost Steele, in proposing that Mr Andrew Hunter be re-elected Dean of Guild, said they had been so well served in the past with Mr Hunter that it would be al to F change. x-Provost Goudie seconded the 1 which was unanim y to. The Treasurer reported that the funds in bend amounted to £129, The Dean of Guild, ...

... Magistrates for wilfully-and maliciously publishing a defama- tory libel upon Alderman Jobn ton in an advertisement signed by Edward Woolley, a defeated candidate at South Shields Ward municipal election, of which Mr Broughton was officer. In the libel Woollcy alleged if he hi presidin received fairpla: he would’ have been elected. Mr Moore, for th e prosecution, said he was willing then to ...

... Councillor A. S. Brycs's Election.—ln connection with his recent election to the Town , Council, Mr A. S. Bryce entertained a number of his frien in the Albion Hall, Main Street, Bridgeton, Thursday night. There was a large gathering. Mr Bryce occupied the chair, aud those on the platfoiin were:—liev. Mr liev. Mr Llder, Councillor Stuart, ex-Councillor Moncur, ex-Couucihor Ure, Mr Alexander ...

... THE THE PARNELL Our Belfast correspondent telegraphs :—A good deal of interest is at the present centred in the discussion which, during the carried on in one of the —_— week, has It will be remembered that a couple of days since Mr Joseph G. M.P., published a letter, a untrue statement that the on the Parnell estate, in the county ok were led to believe that they would get a ae would get cent ...

... GLASGOW B ESTERDAY. ANKRUPTCY COURT (Before Sheriff Munnar, EXAMINATION OF PETER The bankrupt carried on business “there W. L. M'Kittrick, tee; and Mr J. Ww. Knox, writer, law agent in deponed that he had been in business as & news agent in the Glasgow pretty well ot their own and bated themsel ves iustead rough the agents. result was that his could net be carried on ata besides, he had met ...

... Hitherto we had not been in the hahit pointing to Virginia Street u possessing any. thing specially notable in the way beautiful buildings. The Glasgow Apothecaries' Com. pauy, however, have just completed the err*, tion premises which, from an architectural point of view. have considerable attractions. The pileof buildings reared on the site of the hall destroyed fire some sixteen months ago ...

... The inquiry instituted by the Board of Trade into the circumstance* attending the falling in of crowns of the furnaces the Albion while on a voyage from Gibraltar to Leone on loth July last, was concluded at Leith yesterday. The Court finds—lst, That the cause ihe falling of the crowns luruace* was that the water in the boiler had become too densely saturated with salt; 2d, That blowing down ...

... was interred yesterday with military honours, The military bodies in attendance wore the staff of the Highland Light Infantry Militia, the men of the Brilliant training ship, detachment of the Inverness Artillery, and a number of The coffin was placed on # gun carriage drawn pram me moved slowly with the band it presented an y striking ce. The procession left y House, the residence of the ...

... will of Mr Thomas of 39 Pater- noster Row, aad of Farnborough the bein has just sworn under £100,000. The will (dated Apri! 16, 1874) of late of Uyriaque Frangois Fouche, Dac dOtrante, weden, who died oa November 26 last, was proved in London on the 16th ult. by Adolphe Hyacinthe Joseph Comte de Madre, the sole executor, sworn under £50,000, The will (dated July 31, 1574) with two codicils ...

... ts tue Caat.— Yesterday morn- ing, the body of a young man was found in the at It was removed A the Kuver Cart near Merksworth by the House at Paisley, where it was ideutified as ~~ of a young man, - years of age, named Jamet Scott, who resided at 40 Aun Street, Giaagow, and who weat last Giascow last-day. ...

... ATTACK ON A DUBLIN LICE MAGISTRATE IN COURT. While Mr Exham, Q.C., was disposing of the r Court, Dublin, charges in the Southern Division Police an attack was made upon him : ba ve had more serious re- sults than fi followed, A Eliza Phill with ha been an cumulative of 40s, or in default one month’s and before the accused could be remeved from the dock, she threw stone at trate’s head, ‘The ...

... The Agnew exhibition of pictures at the gallery of Messrs Annan, Sauchiehall Street, may now be said to rank next in im ce to that of the Fine Art Institute. This is the fourth collection which the Messrs Agnew have brought to Glasgow, and on the whole, it is the finest of the series, ‘There are 137 pictures in ail, and while they illustrate the various degrees of comparison, with ‘‘ good,” it ...