... Tfl DANIPING-DOWN or LANTARKSHIREI BLAST FURNACES. Irot Yesterday morning (our Coatbridge correspondent, thi says) the Black Country around Coatbridgere looked black indeed, as a great many of the furnaces w had already been put out of blest, and noisy bustle pe; had bean suddenly changed for silence and gloomn.. th AtCaiderioNrk and Chapelindl nearly ons-nalf of the furnaces are already ...

... A bazaar in aid of the building fund of the Free Church, Forglon, was hold on Tuesday in Turriff, in a marquee on the Square, under the distinguished e patronage of Mrs Harvey of Carnoniie; Miss Aber. T cromnby of Forglen; MIrs Ferguson of Kinmundy; airs A Forbes, Dutlugas; and lrs Stronnacl, Ardmeailio, bi The manse and church have lately *indergone thorough tb improvements, amounting in all ...

... THE AMENDED BILL. The following is a copy of the Employers' Liability Bill as amended in committee, which was issued to the members of the House of Commons yesterday A bill [as amended in committee and on recoommit. ment] to extend and regulate the liability of employers X to make compensation for personal injuries suffered by workmen in their service. e b Be it enacted by the Queen's Most ...

... TH-10 A.FG-HAKN WAR. is the BRITISH CONVOY ATTACK1E1D. intry, sides solute REPORTED CAPTURE OF CHITAIAN. I laws ieved, wit\VVeh IRIOBERTS' ADVANCE .ith entle- SILMnday. close Up to the 5th inst. no attack has been made on Candahar. Ayoub Khan has reached Koh Karan. No advance has been made by the enemy either upon Khelat-i-Ghilzai or Pishin. At Cabul ell is quiet. BoxmAy, Monday. made A ...

... HIGIHLAND:GAM1ES AT ELGIN. O On Saturday the tbhrd annual gares were hold In a *t fleld on the farm of Asbgrove, near Elgin. The weather, a although dull, wn6s deligbttully mild, which, together H with the fact that several new features were to be in- troduced this season, had the effect of collecting a very o large crowd of spectators. Indeed seldomh has so large a gathering been seen ant any ...

... rTHE RUSSO-TUgCOMAN WAR. SEVERE FIGHTING. was with ST PETERSBURG, Saturday. presH An official despatch from the Grand Duke Michael RUSE is published to-day announcing the receipt of a tele- Cr gram from General Skobeleff, who on the 13th inst. the started on a reconnaissance from IBami against the stonw Tekke.Turcomans. The General had with him a an5 light column, consisting of . three ...

... TRE BAZAAR AT STONEHAVEN. I o iey The bazaar in aid of the building fund of Cookney church, held 'In the new Townhall, Stonehaven, was aur- re-opened on Saturday morning. .er, Provost Wood was accompanied to the platform by dly the Rev. John Watt, Captain Thurburn, Craigness the Villa; Mr James SmartCceyansvrltsee log of the Church. ,Cony;adsvrltuts for Mr Craib, Pityot, introduced Provost ...

... OUR LADIES' aOL.--- OUR LADIES. OLMN. emkovai Br OE O empl, ~y. 0~g Y`.THEMSELVES.; t a';; . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __. THE A I TRANSATLANTIO CRITICISMS-REFRESHMENTS elti ;IN T4ru.xrIoAIR-0mN;BuSES r oeis HERE i.N E~wia .M8OO .__IX STUEL§SNIGGER r-TENATIONALa GALLERY-GARDENS 'FOR- THE PEOP' LE- OPEN-AIR RESTING PLACES-HAIRI WASHING -FRIZZY. CURLS--PAERINd A HOUSE-NEw I 1.yr ESGS.~iOiI,'E DVISER ...

... LETTERS TO THE BDITOR. BEER POISONING. SIB,-The writer asks the Board of Inland Revenue at Somerset House if they are doing their duty in allowing the use of the bi-sulphate of lime by brewers to the unwholesome extent to which it !is done. If a small brewer uses asy of the well- known sweets or bitters of commerce, the Excise are down upon him; ray,salt itself, which might be left to the ...

... .r LONDON CO RESPONDENCE. ,65 FLEET STREET, -. Wednesday Night. by th-e Souse of Lords of the To rej for Disturbance Bill has, rs I ?? ;e;. produced a strong feeling of indig- C t,'S the Irish members of the House f'7 - rem, vwho hold a meeting on Friday, f, 5t'' ,I doubt their future course of d i ?? pianned. In the meanwhile, Mr I h to-day given private notice that, on b ;or goin into ...

... THE COURTS. Osborne, August 7. The Queen and Princess Beatrice, attended by Lady Waternark and the Hon. Frances Drum- mund, drove through West Cowes and Newport yesterday afternoon. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught were present with the Prince and Princess of Wales at the regatta at West Cowes. Ber Majesty's dinner party included the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, Princess Beatrice, Lady ...

... I h ET LOS9 OF TRE ATALANNT.A. | EE GOVZiBSMRN INQC~! RSUXE 'he Goveintment inquiry into the loIeofE HLM.S. 1 I Atalanta was resumed yesterday morning lat the Sesions-House, Westminster, before Admiral t I A. P. Ryder, Vice.Admiral George G. Randolph, EC.B.; Captain I. B. Batt, br IL G. Rothery, Wreck Commissioner; Mr Barngrd Weymouth, secretary of Lloyd's Register of Shipping; and Mr I IG. P. ...