... TIE CRISIS IN EGYPT. THE PORTE AND THE 1 CONFERENCE. DESPATCH OF BRMSH TCORPS TO THE EAST. Aiexandria, June 29. The European shops with scarcely an exception sre now closed, ineluding the provision dealers. The baks have bees transferred on board the merchant vessels in the harbour. Constantirtople, June 29. The Ambassadors of the Powers are still andeavouring to make the Porte understand that ...

... TAE AMERICA'GOVEMNIMENT AN-D I THE ISLATD OF IONA. e All who have visited that island which will ever be held sacred in the ecclesiastical history of Scotland-the island of Iona-will remember i that the guide, in explaining the relics and ] pointing out the graves of saints and kings, also refers tolthe interment, some sixteen or seven- teen years ago, of nineteen American seamen, who perished ...

... INPERIAL PARLIAMENT.1 HOUSE OF OMMOS-WEDNEsDAT. The SPmirsaa took the Chair at twelve o'lock. AFFAIRS IN EGYPT. 1 Mr BOUEE gavenoticethatto-morrow be would i ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs with respect to the assurance be wave last Monday week that the measures that were being adopted by the Western Powers in Egpt had met ' e with the concurrence of the Porte wheth_ er it ...

... (RxUTR's TELEGA.) - I :1 C airo,.May 29, 5.10 P. I Arabi Pasha demands the withdrawal of thel circular recently issued by the lhedive pernittiog i the provincial authorities to stop recruiting. I 1 Constantinople, -May 29. The Ministers again held a Council to-day to dicluss the question of Turkish intervention in' ,Egypt, but still no resolution has been taken. The I majority are in favour of ...

... THE XWING GILMOUR INSTITUTE, ALEXANDRIA. LuMG OF MEIo MAL-sToNE The memorial-stone of the Ewving Gilmotr Is- ' stitute, the gift of MrWillianx Ewing Giltidur, e !one of the partners of the firm of Messrs John .Orr t Ewing & Co., to the town of Alexandria, was laid jI I with Masonic honours on the afternoon of Satur- I cday by Mr J. M. Martin, yr. of Auchindermau, t I Provincial Grand Master of ...

... LETTERS TO TEBE DITO.R. CONDITION OF THF CLYDE SHIPB1ILD- i n ING AND ENGINEERING INiDUJSThlIES. s- Srn,-T'he very remarkable letter an the above 1. subject which appeared in your columns on Wed- nesday is evidently the production of one thoroughly e acquainted with what he has undertaken to de- .e scribe, aud Messrs Rothwell ' Co. are not likely ,- ta make much of such a' lormidable ...

... ST JOTEXs LODGE Excuasio-n.-The anual ex- corsion ina connection With the Lodge Glasgow St John, No. S bia., took place yesterday. These yearly outings are regarded as affording: pleasant breaks ia the ordinary lifoeof the brotherhood,' and they are apparently becoring increasingly popular, the, attendance yesterday numbering -in all 1 2 brethren, being the largest in. the history of the lodge ...

... THE SMOKE NU1IANCE ON To IWER 5 At the Greenock Pol Court ?? Duff an the ?? Williamson, master of the steamer Sultans, wae cbarged vnth allowing large quantities of black smoke to be emitted from the funnel of his steamer on the 12th June, while s she was lying at the steamboat quay, while on her Lpassa thence to Prince's Pier, and afterwards sfroz Prine'bs Pier to opposite Fort Matilda, Mr ?? ...

... I THE ELCHO SHIELD. * (FROM OUR OWN COasREPONnENr.) it 03London, Thursday Night. To-DAY the Scotch have suffered defeat in the ?? Shield match. Ite no use crying over spilt milk, but the position which the Northern men . have occupied in this - comrpetition, calls tiloudly for a little i more interest being ymanifested in this species of rifle shooting, if e North Britainisever again tomake a ...

... ?? - -1--l. - AlTv ?? T a A' i E T| i)ESPATC7'ES FROMG SI GAIR.NET WOLSELEY. Li O DMiTiSH CASUALTIES. CAPTUTfE OF ARABE'S CHIEF I OF THE STAFF. i TEXE BRITISH ADVANCE. . i CA' = :ii'NET lvoLSI'LEY TO TE | ii'AR -F '~l~'ICI |a - Ismailia, August 27. 'ra ?? retruine' fronm outposts. and ni-' ins of Thiursday and Friday :s e ni: i wre niportair results than I 'cotniluetely routed and 511$ . a ...

... UNIYERSITY OF GLASGOW. ' a 3ncAGDATION xI MEDrmTON - The graduation in medicine, and the distributidif ~'of medals 'and certificates of mnerit in connection- with the tiedical classes' 5at the University, took place -at noon Yesterday, in the Lower Hall of the fuseum. The graduates occupied seats in the area of the hall, and there was a. large attendance, I- prinicipallyof ladies, interested ...

... BEITH FIEa CHIURCH. d .,EVORIAL STONE CEREYONV ...