... ABEDED-N, THRSDA.Y, ITSB -22, IS88:, T-\ the House of Comnmons vesterday after-: 'roon the orders of the day wcre pustponed, at ' I: I--.-- - -t . - . I nloonl tle oUEt VI tilt: liil ju iltpaUl't-o, li t the instance of the M11arquis (f Hm'inatonn in 1 order rhat the debate on thc Address might pro- ceed. A question by Dr C*ameron as to the 1 destitution in the Scotch Highlands was met u with ...

... DISTSiTCT & GENLRAL NEWS. I ~- - P, the appli' ations fos tickets for MrGlad- Dr stone's meeting in Edinburgh Corn Exchange next or month havo already far exceeded the space at the dis- re postal of the committee. The E4rl of Rosebery has remitted by c( eheque to all the tenants on his MeAntmore estates 15 d per cent. of their Michaelmas rents paid last week. b This is thre seventh half-yearly ...

... MURAL TALK II-S, PARCE3, M2iS. T.-CGum awa sirs; basna't been Sinc apne watber fe gettin' th' wark feshen forrit sin' th' nev yer ;csrt in? P.-Deed, a vwyte its only middl.s'. t'aur theqr-n' nat'rally dry thi pleuch may wirk brawlie, iat: bantle o' feedles th' aul' frost's aye sticl anC' agen ar' ower weet. Avr like winter vat:L'r IL9 L,,ia sizzon, an' th' gun' weel cover't wi' sarm in Januar' ...

... HE nTBLAEN COMNSR D'EVOMPTE. ,f The Tims' Geneva correspondent writes, under date aJan. 13:- ,, The failure of the Interlaken Comptcir d'soompte, ,f which was preceded by one tragedy, has been followed f by another. A few weeks ago I informed you of the a mysterious death of Herr Ott.an Iex-colonel of the 1 Federal Army, an eminent civil engineer, and a man i who occupied a high social ...

... ', THE IRISH PARTY. I TlAe Central N ews says tbe aunnal mesting of the I! Irish Parliamentary party, convened by Mr Parnell, |i was held yesterday afternoon in the offices of the party, Westminster. There were over 20 members present. Mr Papell wa's ieappointed chairman and 1 Mr Justin MI'Carthy vice-chairman. Messrs Leamy 1 and Sexton were requested to act as secretaries, and Mr Richard ...

... i From the Meteorological Olifce.I Fo.rIcAwTS of weatl:er for Tuesday, Feb. 27, 138 (issued att 8 p.m. on thdprevious day):- 0. s-co rAN !, '.-South-wvesterlY and westerly winds, strong, perhaps a gale, cloudy and unsettled, with some rain. 1. ScOTIL.s-D E.-South-westerly winds, moderate. ifair t, cloudy and unsettled. 2. EN51A,;O N.E-Do. i 3. EN(,r.AN) F.-South-westerly and westerly winds, ...

... TE:ATZMT OF DE3STITUT CHILDREN. I Stay-Would it no0t be well if our Magistrates, in the 'interests oE those friendiess waifs for whose benefit Industrial Schools were aited, would endeavour to keep them free fomx the ontac of Children convicted of criminal ofrences? Sheriff Wilsn, qvery truly observed th other day, inu sending to Oakbank a boy that had been deserted by both parents, and was ...

... THE SPEAXE RSHIP. ocaal -We understand that on. the reassembling of Parlia- L in ment, Sir Henry James will be proposed by the Prime by Minister as Speaker, on the resignation of Sir Henry 'ish- Brand, Sir Farrer Herschell becoming Attorney- Genercl, and Mr Horaae Davey or Mr C. Russell, ent Solicitor-General.-La31 Journa. 'I iter- . - -- [iln, Yesterday, at North Shields Police Court, J. ...

... TIE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. ABERDEEN. T]C WARD lXRgTINQ8-*VW d meetings *for the nomination of caudidates were held in Aberdeen on ionday night. By t.c Local Improvement-s Act, - paed last session, the town is now divided into eight wards, each returning three cand.dates, and it was provided that all members of the present Town lSouncil should retire. Two zival policies and two dia- tinct parties ...

... t Both political parties are actively engaged at _ ep Ipewich in makiung arrangements for the forth]om- ) -nag contest. Sir William Chorley, Conservative J 5candidate, is in the town, and Mr West, Q.C., is I expected to visit Ipswich to-day. t Sir William Chorley has issued his address as Con- N ;serv ative candidate for Ipsawich. He says that, as an t attached member of the Church of England, ...

... I - The new Free Ohureh at New Deer, the founda- c d tion-stone of which was laid the other day by Mro 3. Dingwall Fordyce of Bruoklay Castle, will be, when e ie finished, witlhout question. the finest building in the I district, one of the handmomest in Buchaen,and, in- r n deed, for substantiality, beauty, and completsness, f L. -vill compare favouvably with any building of the d kind in ...

... T.P. PRE'SBY'T'ERlY OF ABERDEEN. The U.P. l'resbytery of Aberdeen met in St Nicholae Lane Session-house, Aberdeen, on Tuesday-Rev. Thos. Taylbr, Banchory, moderator. BTATlSTiO.iL IRPOnR. Mr Rankine, Shiols, submitted the statistical report for last year, from' which it appenred that the i emumberbilie over the wwhole' Preebytery :Dow etoodl at 3373. ''his was an increase of 27 members as ...