... A meeting of the Aberdeen Philosephical Society Ilue was beld in Watson's Rooms last night-Sheriff Comrie fil Thomson presiding. Three new members were balloted aw, for and admitted, viz., Mir David Littlejohn, advocate; Baillie Esslemont ; and Air David WT. Abernet'hy, ! engineer. 'The President read a paper by Alr G. P. Blacdonell (late teacher in the Grammar School, and now in Lon- T. don, ...

... I I will [BY TaLEGRAPH FROM OUR OWN CORaRESPONDENm] been the I EsoL$NAND AND THEu RUSSIAN tINIL V EXPEDITION- loie LORD SAIASBURY AND TE Tuoelacsu BOND- M. Ii HOLDERS-TIn, Ticunoumi CASE-PROTECTioN vocal IN GERMANY-THE METROPOLITAN DLTaCTIvE Succe DEPARTMENT-Eil-ECrRICITY Ieknisu GAS-THE his ]i EUPRRATES-CRiCOI:er FlxrTuos-OraRATIC AND this E THEATIUCAL. I Th LOINDON, Tuesday night. Ir Thle ...

... The following is a list of the 46 candidates for the office of Resident Harbour Engineer at Aberdeen :_ ekler William Murray Alston, Clyde Navigation, Glasgow. Tynd, James Barron (37),resident harbour engineer, Buckie. 7orks Imrie Bell (4a), i Victoria Street, Westminster ine of London. ed to Ernest Benedict (41), resident engineer, New Pier, Ryde. wing J. L. Bostock, resident engineer, ...

... AG I{ICU L'rU Lr. ITACDUFF-PLIUUGHINTG BIATCi{.-Oni Auld Yule Day- a nunmber of the , ell wishers of Air A lexander Dallas heldi a plou~biig match on a, three-year-old gtass park of his at the Dams of Gellyinill. The weather was propitious, and splendid work was made. Th. judges--Dlessrsl William Nicol, William Clark, and John Sinclair- made the awards as follows :-1st A. Ainty, Mlacduff ; ...

... HEAL.TH OF THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. ST PLrERSBURG, Tuesday. An official bulletin, dated Cannes, 4th inst., announces that the Empress of Russia felt weaker throughout the whole of the 3rd inst. The cough continued very distressing, and Her Majesty was still troubled with palpitation of the heart. Her Majesty's appetite was not so good as previously. The deterio- ration in the Empress's health ...

... PROFESSOR CANDLISH'S VIEWS. At a =eeting of the Free Presbytery of Glasgow yesterday, Rev. George Campbell said he wished to give notice that at next meeting he would move that a committee be appointedto investigate the nature of the views promulgated by Professor Candlish in the lecture he delivered at the opening of the present session of the. Free Church College, Glasgow. Professor Bruce, ...

... CABRACH AND GLDINLIVET. His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon has made the following reply to the memorial from his T tenantry in Cabrach and Glenlivet asking reduction e of their rents O5 To the Tenants in the Cabrach and Braes of w Glenlivet. C I have received the memorial from the Cabrach Ti tenants appealing to me for assistance on account of In the bad seasons of 1877, 1878, and 1879, ...

... Ill JOLLY. , BhE MA5JBSTY`s INSPECTOR, ON THE 'REALIBM OF-POETRY. Lnat night Mr Jolly,l Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, Inverness, gave a lecture to'the.Young Men's Association, Inverness, on the ealism of Poetry. .Mr Jolly introduced his subject by renmarking that the majority of. men, he feared, looked upon poetry as an ,amiable dilettantecism, indulged in by the sentimental women ...

... toes, It is curious how narrow-rinded s ome men are and how little they care about subjects calculated to and broaden and benefit their mental faculties. Such a an man was half-asleep on a bench at the Union Depot yesterday, when a tall stranger with a very short linen duster on sat down beside him and said *- ,rior Have you calculated the pressure per square btle, inch which you exert on ...

... OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, FOR AGRICULTURAL AND SANITXIIY PURIPOSES, FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 5, 18SO. (Isseed by thep Iefeoroleogicar Office.) 'Districts. Wil.Er-Pao- Scotland, East England, N.E. England,: Fast Mid. Counties England,South GRAZIma, &o.: Scotland, West England, N.W. England, S.W. Ireand, N6th Ireland, South reinperature ~-`d Ahove g 4 t .°.3orheloy, - - --0 OO ,4 ~- week. Deg 67 ...

... THE CABRACH AND GLENLIVET TENANTRy. SVi- THEREr has been no more suggestive incident dge of the present agrarian crisis in Ireland than aM the result of Mr Vesey Stoney's firmness with lish his tenantry, after they had refused to pay their ese rents. He had offered them a reduction of 15 ss- per cent;,'but this did not at all come up to the Lich notions with which they had been inspired by ink ...

... THE IRISH AOITATION. Th PROPOSED INDIGNATION MEETING AT 1 ARM AGH. Another indignation meeting similar to that which took place at Kilcolhan, Canmorris, is announced to be held at Armagh, near Ballyhaunis, Mayo. The yes following placard in connection with it has been all posted throughout the county :-- Irishmen assemble neq in your thousands on Sunday next at Armaglht to protest against the ...