... SOI:ENCE IN 1879. Tar past year has not been marked by any very, startling discovery in the region of science, though it would be a great mistake to infer from this that the army of scientific workers all over the world have been idle. It would be simply impossible in the space at our disposal to give any idea of the amount of work accomplished in science during the year, and equally ...

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... THES LIBERATIONtISTS ANrD lTHE 'GNER;FAdL ELECTIOiN. In a papet' entitlied Hfints to Electors in regard to Eccle'iastical Questions, 'the Electoral Cjorn- nujitee of the j~ibelai~tlL n ociety bas described the noho~y wzinen it thinlks soould be adopted by Liberationists in view, of the ap;,roa'ig hig eneral election. It a' mite tiiat all Litoreals are agree that the most urgent ditty ...

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... TEE AGRICULTURAL YEAR~ - |EIGHTTEEN H 1UNDRED AND Smxav-?u5EszS h~ :been int manly wvays a bad year for agricul. .turists. It began in storm, and farm work being delayed in consequence a late seedZ ;time was the result, w .hich, coupled wtr.h an - ungenial spring and a wret summuer, sadiy I damnped the spirits of our tarmers. The stayr ; of the year's harvest has already been toldT 3 in our ...

... GE±N ? ji'Jj??j(4 NEWS (ltucnfE.'§l.EThLDJ:gIL) THE AtTTAC ONl ' T-lE KIN Msorrid, ) cccinbbuk .i The prelimin~ary judicial ,miiiniiftioii ut Uteri, Gonlzales, tihe author of thre attemplt '7n the King s life, l~as cominuarroed. Two par.,ons, nba were arrested yesterday on suspicion of ruutplicit?; have since beers set at libert y. Otero's bronther, aged 14, dleclare~s thavt he had no> ...

... S T O RM A NTD F L OO DS., SAILW-TY TLLi;flO STOflZD. The heavy storm ot the last fewr days hias resulted in a general inandation in thle low-lyine areas in umany ox the E~nglish couutaas. tanica- sire and the nen'ihbouirhood of Liverpool and Mlanchester in patrticular has-c been seriously Eooded. The Er well has risen 15 feet above low- Vwater mask, and was stiil risinlg l..te last night. The ...

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... sTI~ASTIeRS AT SEAI. I LOUS 0F A mneGanzsm- AND OU.r i Last night, information reached Greenock, from the lsland of kEigg, that on Sunday the hurricane which passed over the coast wtas severely felt on that island. Between live and eight o'clock a large brigantine, called the South Eaki, of Montrose, and belonging to Plockton, Lochaishl, wen~t to pieces on the island, and all the crewv except ...

... OUR LONDON OORRE?PONDENOE. W1edn~esday Niight. A C.asrnir COVSCTrL baa been summroned for Saturday next, and it is p~robable that M~inisters w lill then be called on to settle ilcianitely whati is to be done ivith Afghanistani. !I understand that the London creditors ha^ve been paidl nearly £400,000' by the C-ity of Glas- gowv Bank liquidators duriug the last fews day;, * and it is estimatedi ...

... THJRSD A Y MORNING, .JANUACRY 1 . The divers engaged in explorations at the c scene of the Tay Bridge disaster wvere yesterday I successful in discovering the engine and nearly the whole of the carriages of the wrecked train. They lie between the fourth and fifth of the dismantled piers, counting fromn the southa end I of the bridge-a fact wh~ich disposes of thea theory put forward to the ...

... ELEr.CTI~oN NE^WtS. RElPRESEi3NT ATION or'1 UI ?? SFIRE. Mi U. J. 'iV. BUseS'S CA~iDWAIU IMr John WiLliam Bains of K~ilmabewr andl Cumbernauld, the Liberal caodaida~to for the re-.j presentation of the county of Dumba~rton, ad- dressed on Tluesday two mneetings of .he electors in, the ?? western portion of the county, andL had a most flattering reception at both. Thbe first meeting was with ...