... ,ar- RoisiIHSARTt.-The brethren of the Forbes Mastlonic eon1 Lodge held their anuual gathering ir1dg4peat as meeting at sehrbsry on Frilday. Tmh~e q1 WvIng 'hl offle-beerorif' v'ers elected for te nsuinm 's lip R.W.M,,J16bert Mfirrieas; P.M., Nathaniel ?i~le 4rI S.rbL',Jsiuem Duab)Lr;`D.M., Samluel'.lRdge ISW. 002 'Alexia~der tI handi; 3A.., Alex~rider 8~d trauer, bf, CharlesMurnson; ...

... THE TERRIBLE COLLISION BETWEEN ' STEAMERS. THIRTY MEN MISSING. The Liverpool agents of'the Spanish steamer Leonj which was in collision a few days since with the Harelda, both vesgois sinking in consequence, have received a telegram from Barcelona, announcing: the arrival at Lisbon of a number of the crew of th' Leon.. It was feared that all had gone down with the vessel, but it appears that ...

... CU1WLT7 I the prestt Winter Otir!o.t 3ag club. has, .ad majny. pn.rrknif eD of engagwtr4r ir the rootring gams, and several vieillcontested mathft hAve been enioye-d.,, .rmo-gt the ost lnttrestif .these .were those played on ttiejr owncurlisgd Tborsdiiy,,'wben l'lr lVso Ch'rliffe Broonkat M.tF bt of lerl-'I'anair,. end Colonel Keqn took'part jin 41 . _ Two very keenly.oontcsted games.were ...

... Is the man whom you can read like a bollk a man of letters? A beau dressed out resembles the cinnamon tree- the bark is of greater value than the body. One of the best aross-bow shooters is a lady. She feeds on arrow-root. This probably accounht for it I Domestic toast-Mlay your coffee and slanders against you be ever alike-without grounds. What will you give if I restore your eyesight ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIM ENT. J. y!HOUSE OF CoO~-IMONS.-WEDtNESlAT. Inone acl The Speaker took the chair at 12'20. Advo cli: on thi SCOTCH PETITIONS.93 Petitions were presented by the Lord-Aavocate from a o Viewforth Free Church, Edinburgb, againtoeigpbi Limuseums on Sundays, from the inhabitants of Gars- pbi town for the amendment of the married women's pro- made, of pasty law, and from a public ...

... . wtft(6? to?-UW-Vditor. . 1 j I : I 1 1 - I I 7 I GREENWICH HOSPITAL PENSION FUND. Ben's Bunk, Shiprow, Jan.:8, 1881. Sir,-I write you these few iines, in the fir-t place, to let you know, -that, although poor in purse, I am in- good health at present, thank God for it, hoping this will findd yor the same. Chiefly, however, it's about them Greenwich sixpences I wish to write. We old tars, ...

... of kiensee 0 preacl I EVIDENCE FOR THE CROWN. think Is - m-erel 31 wo rke IDuBLON, Monday night. of' j Tie State trials were resumed this morning. At that fthe Courts, if anything, there was an increased num- land -her of neopole awaiting the arrival of h rvres ti 3'who, as usual, were not in their places. at the ap- that I pontedwas ruour he rundgreed pofnthe time. There wa uorgoing ...

... FY SPECIArL WIRE FROM OUR OWN Itreat floa CORRESPONDENTS.1 gre all the manuscri 47 FLErr STRMET, Monday night. tion, add Mr1 Forster has adroitly escaped from the unn ml 8speci ilsallt duty of absolutely suspeuding the I The SiU fabeas Corpus Act by investing the Lord- the conqi l 0ibetenat and the Chief Secretary alone with , grama be te power of arrest. Provision is, however, elusion 01 Ien ...

... M9 ir Robert Shepberd, Jun., Ellon, has palss' the 10v flmnroasntulof the Phaormaceutical Society of vesv on Great Britain. G , ViP GARtTLY.W _r3 The statutory annual meeting ofrtepBayraofy thubis ~r, paihwshold yesterday within the Barony, 1'ilhilic ,as sc~hool-1, whe11n Mlessrs William Mleren,efrmer u hilihullBA and and James BRtuce, farmer, Collithie, Boere dunrirngtelB iad elected to serve ...

... SCHOONER FOUNDERED AT DON MOUTH. RESCUE OF THE CREW. wI in About five o'clock yesterday afternoon the pilots Hf and lifeboat crew at the North Pier, while on the se' look-out, observed a vessel driving north. -e wards, and sufficiently near the entrance . channel to show that she was a three- K masted schooner. She was apparently unmnnage. at able, and was evidently being swept helplessly on. ...

... I; * epression of the few hbs been tried, remedies for the many have been tried, yet the proportions of this issue nave not been reduced. Its features, defying time and all elf(rts at alteration, remain the same. It is tile one durable monument of Irish political his- I tory, aul yet Ireland is goverined as if it did not exist as a real tancible element capable of being directly dealt with by ...

... FRELANI). PASTORAL OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. 0 In the Lenten pastoral to be issued next Sindsy, I- the Archbishop of ])iiblin says:- We should also n pray with great fervoir for our own dear country, on Af which in his infinite wisdom and unfathomable provi- dence the Almighty has permitted sore trials to fall. Her history for ages has been ahn:iot an unbrokeu record of temporary sorrows. ...