... T1EE BER STEAMBOAT OWNERS AND TaiH CLYDE TRUST. The following petition, signed by all the river steamboat owners, was presented yesterday to the Clyde Navigation Trustees :-We, the undersigned river steamboat owners, desire respectfully to draw your attention to the following grievances under which we labour, and which we believe have hitherto had a most detrimental effect on oar trade, ...

... A statement showing the numbe- of actual wrecks, with their cargoes, crews, &c.. reported during the week ended 7th January, 1882:- -: f . Crew and 9 52 I~at.ofla~t eC | Pass. Name.. e |Port where s| . t I _owed. Al British. iS Weford ?? - oalI.. -AL Ardanmonri (6) ?? ?? 475,Sugar ?? -. Antisnain) (2) . St'tivernesl 10W7Srley All. - Atligot ?? S London. 361Coals ?? ?? AU- Cronstadt fl. S t ...

... WEATHER REPOR T AND FORECAST. . , & ~~METEOROLOGIC' IL OFFICE, I Wednesday, Jau-ary ;1, 8 r.M. TnaE large depression which was so greatly affecting the weather in Scotland at the time of our last report passed north-eastward during the night, and at 8 Am. to-day its centre was shown over thle southern part of the Gulf of Bothnia Over Scan- dinavia it had occasioned a rapid fall of the baro- ...

... PAISLEY GEORGE A. CLBRK TOWN HALL Ur I GPFSNLG CMrn-ON, DEMONSTRATION, AYD It { CON VI5RSAZIONE, of Paisleyhobserved a general holiday yesterday, and le Celeirated by means of a grand trades' procession er thle opening of a magnificent pile of' buildierics ae known as the George -A Clark 'town Hall, which ry has been erected and gifted to the town by mern- o, bers of the Clark family (Anchor ...

... BARONY PAROCHI.AL 13OA1D. A spec l meeting of the Barony Parochial Board was held yesterday for the p irpose of cousideringt tue PVor-law Amendment Bill as amended by the select ?? M'Laren in the chair. Lhes Caarama-s garve in the report ut the represen. tatives to the conference ?? ou thelPoor- lwAmendiaentBili, l-e reported tiat the confer- o nce ?? of representatives from t r bu-gl ?? ...

... rrela POLICY OF T, UN ITED STATES. Ad M DLTR BLAINE ETERVIEWED, |(PEir.ma'S TflLB-tRM.) Ieshioctoa, January 30. The TrS ingfn Post of to-day reports an inter- view between a member of its editoriai statf and Mr Blaine, The latter is represented to have said that his instructions to Mr Prescott we-re fully dis- cussed vvith President Arthur. They were referred to in tihe annual Meseage at the ...

... HIGHLAND AND AGR1CULTUP3AL SOCIETY. the I The monthly meeting of the directors of this not . society was held yesterday afternoon in Edinburgh ga ?? Smith, Whittinghame, in the chair. Letters the were read from Sir James ?? Stewart Richardson of Pitfour, Bart., conveying to the directors thi thanks ef his family for the resolution passed at the Board meeting on the 7th December regarding the ...

... 21OUNT VES U VIUS. The Daly ?? Naples correspondent writes The late increase of activity o, Mount Vesuviue produced very interestiug phenomena of eruption. dine utner day a stream at lava broke oat LA the base of tie new cone due east, and, the principal veuti beinig thus leit empty, the sides fedl in. At the sanic time tile lava produced aa inmmense l CaSiD about 100 teat wide, at least 120 ...

... I VOLUNTEER OFFICERS &N~D TACTICS. I With reference to the important ktatement of the Secretary of State for War at Sheffield on Saturday respecting the examination of captains and field officers of auxiliary forces in tactics, it is notified that the examination will be held on the basis laid down for promotion to the rank of captain (in this subject) by Appendix IL of the Queen's Regulations ...

... In the Birmingham Banlruptcy Court yester- day Henry Webster, formerly partner in the firm of John ?? & Co., Manchester, warehouse- men, and also carrying on business as botel.keeper! at the Crvstal k'alace Eotel, Sutton Coldfield, filed j his petition for liquidation, with liabilities esti- mated at £2,000, with assuts not ascertained. ThB failure has been brought about by the debtor be- ...

... THE SITUATION LN FRANCE. Dyl n (mFROn OUst OWN; cmRaSPONDflNT.) at Paris, January 22. ae IT is extremely difficult as yet to form any re opiuion as to what will be the issue of the crisis into wihich the Revision question has brought F, France. 'The gravity of the present situatiun al can hardly be over-estimated; nor does any d organ of the press, whether Ministerial or at Opposition, ...

... THE SALA10N- SPAWNING SEASON. The season1 of sa'n-on spawning, so far as has *et been ascertained, although the water w watchers a-e not all at one uneu the subject, - has been a fairlv good one, a:d on s'ene rivers, 3aided by the open season and the abundant flow of water, onite proific. The results of the pre- ,sent spawning seas on have, however, no bearing whatever on the firlheries, which ...