... Cfthe 'abahd~m Xjolullat. ABERDEEN,. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 4, 1880 PIREVIOUS to the resumption in the House of Lords last night of the debate on the Irish Com- pensation Bill, Earl Kimberley made alstatement confirmatory of recent favourable accounts of the condition of Basutoland. Earl Granville stated, with reference to the Afghan situation, that communication with Cabul had not been cut, and ...

... IO-o.NL. IC.R EP nu B E- . I caching [BY TIsGBAPE FROM OUt OWN C est, and O onS, are Pseed be LONDoX, Monday night. havingt My correspondent in Constantinople, writing under country date of tie 10th, says:- I cannot but see that some he first serious events are at hand here. The Turks are Dalny Turks stil, and tie mischief will inevitably come to evwith, pars He points in justification of ...

... ZJho rItedv'lz Mjcml4, ABERDEEIN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1880. Is the House of Lords last night Earl Gran- ville read two telegrams from the Viceroy aneut the Afghan situation. The noble earl, answer- ing a question by Lord Stanley of Alderley as to whether the Government intended to take parm in a naval demonstratson against Turkey, re- marked that the occasion was not one on which to say ...

... PIa NICS. Na~.so0N STREET 7U.P. Cueussci.--Thc Aninual S bbath school00 picinic in connection with the above church was held enl Saturday in a tiemail field adjoining Becaligrove House. Teachers, patrentq, and children, to thle num- bcr of 1130 assemrbled in the schoolroom about half-past two o'clocke, and marched to the ground, where a nums- ber of gamnes were indlulged in, sind a hearty tea, ...

... THE BIRTHPLACE OF STEAMERS AND . -~ CLIPPER SHIPS. We will very soon (says the San Francirsco News. letter) be at the tail-end of a half century sinoe steam Inavigation began as an experiment, which soon belied the prognostications of ideal philosophers of the Lard. i ner school, who, foolishly enough, ventilated predic. tions that practical men treated as mere cobweb hind. srances' to be ...

... EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE IN Bid IRELAND. on A SHIP BOARDED. we) A serious and significant outrage occurred on Wed- It nesday night at Passage West, near Cork. A large fra party of men went on board the Norwegian ship Juno, the and, having locked the captain into his room, pro. bra ceeded to remove two cases of arms containing sixty leg stand. They had previously cut the telegraph wires. Four Cork ...

... _ - oue,w rFrom the Meteorological Office.] in the FORECASTS of weather for Thursday, August 4, 1880 this i (issued at 8 0 p.m. on the previous liay) :- be is 0 SCOTLAND N.-Southerly and south-westerly h.,lds breezes, light or moderate ; cloudy; unsettled; some sheep rain. S 1. SCOTLAND E.-Do. arorn 2. ENGLAND N.E.-South-westerly breezes; maor rain ; then fair. majol 3. ENGLAND E.-Ligbt ...

... -- ~~~~~~at A The annval statutory meeting of the trustees of the lette Fourth or Kincardine O'Neil district of Aberdeenshire The roads was held within the Huntly Arms Hotel, Aboyne, the yesterday. bridl On the motion of Dr Robertson, Hopewell. seconded InnE by Mr Fraser, Findrack, Sir John Clark, Bart. of Bible Tillypronie, was, in the unavoidable absence of Colonel and Innes, called on to ...

... I -1 a - r . ^ f flLLIS, 1'ARIqE, MAINS. F T.-Curn awa, OSire1i na't a~ye fine fillin' wather for ecas,,~'j-e oxu~rob~-ubipe't thisI 'year aw wad thin. Rea ony or'y'e-%6n tiiidst yet? P.-Aw sanna 10!As new :owjr 1W far. gpen fin uw sailt In t hand eideut;- bit it's eensic fih e, -4eate, sinshen arn da ~ h'iebt'si40 waji wiilin' t'Jltstbe as jang 's aw s grain t~ ~ cb'a~'~;hl sieoerti~itaivau ...

... MR GL~flSTON AT GBREENOCK ie T GRnEiNocK, Monday. ino The Graro Gnlly Ckstle, with Mr Gladstone on board, en arrived of Greenock at 6 o'clock yesterday norning. rv andat once anchored The Prime Ministerasusual, rose Ihe early, and, while on the deck with Mr Donald Currie, I iwas.loudly. cheered by excursionists who were making I- for th' porit; ; Mr Gladstone is reported to be in ex- B; ...

... '''i1 VOLUiN~trF ,x, NTEERS , , ANNIUAL BANFFSHIRE VOLUNTEER Leidut COMPETITION. lent Tile. annu'al'Ban'rffshire lvyl]nt'eeti oorn-ptifipn, open to all volunteers of the county of Banff, took place yes' . viJ ! terday on the Lilks of-Banff, unler higlylv favourable i d oirc`mstances asi'iegarTdseh atieml m'e~of competitors and the attractive programme. For the last two or three yesrs this old ...

... L LETTERS TO TH E ED [TOR. OLD ELDRUMI PAROCIEAL SCHOOL OLD1ELIUDRUBt 4th August, 1880. SIR,-With reference to the statement of the Com- mittee of the School Board of Meldrurn in your issue of to-day, as there is an entire shifting of ground from the statement given by the Board (not the committee) on the 31st ult., and not even an attempt to justify any o, the assertions of which I complained ...