... 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, ...

... --I Ola5pw TP=lb* ? SATURDAY MORNING, NOVE!ZOER is. In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr Ashley, in reply to Dr Cameron. stated that Cetewayo was net detained as a prisoner at Oude Molen, but remained there on an unde- wtanding with the Go-ernment. He hoped the Kingwouldbe restored before the end of the yewr. Mr Yorke asked the Prime Minister whether be would asford facikes for his brin g ...

... BISHOP WORDSWORTH'S CHARGEi ON PROSPECTS OF RECONCILIATION. The annual Synod of, the Unrited Diocese of St thec Audrews, Dunkeld, ?? was held yester- mdil day in Per'th-BishoplWordsworth presiding. The . t .preliminary matters of business having been gone is t through die Bishop delivered his charge, en n~ which, having, .first noticed the main events cdi which had occurred in the ...

... oxW1ON XESPO ENOB I 65 FLEET STREET, Sunday Night. VE ?? of Commons is rapidly gathering up e icose threads of the session-a process not tile -Iicult, seeing that there are so few of v thc to gather np. It sat for five hours yee- tsy- but in most melancholy plight, for the d.- ddrnce was very thin and the programme Dot attractive. The Solicitor-General F35 ire~a wasr able to give encouraging ...

... If TEBITRILING NhRRATIVE. The last arriving mail steamer at Liveip.,-1 from New York brought particulars of t.c dreadful disaster to the steamer Asia, which went down whilst having on board passengers and crew to the number of about one hundred, only tvo of whom were saved. The circum- a stances of the disaster as related by one of the s I survivors are of the most thrilling kind. The 1two ...

... THR VALUATION OP ST ENOCHS RAM WAY STATION. sanr - - the *h. Lord Kin-ear, as Lord Ordinary, officiating on ive the Bills, beard oounsel yesterday in the First an Division Court Room, Edinburgh, on two appeals ur brought by Mr Archibald Dempster, inspector of, re- and representing the City Parish Parochial Board, use with respect to the valuation of St Enoch's Rail- i Le. way Station, Glasgaw. ...

... A MISTRESS SLANDRRI G HER SERV ANT. Evidence was led at considerable length before Sheriff Mali, in the Glasgow Small-Debt Court oni Wednesday, in an alleged slander case. The case was continued till yesterday in order to hear the evidence of an important witness. The pursuer, Margaret Cunnsiughame, a domestic servant, re. siding at 84 North H1anover Street, sued Robert Veiteb, draper, 45 ...

... ST TNINIANS ClyUhRCHE, .UTCH- TOWN. I~E XEMORL&L-U'OZB cEARyHN. Oni Saturday afternoon M. J.M~- berceon jeert'ormeu the cere::o .- of. neeme1;riall-~stone of tile ?? tsioiilc0 I , * Crownhlrect, Hnrcieceontowii 'ahcouilrv0. 4, as preiiounsly noticedjs well ont towvarzco.z'~!~ is being erieteti from~ plans prelia-cee ev1 Mr Leceleto, L.A., Glas-ux, and ?? ill Contasa-,' dation for about 00,0 ...

... SMALLER LIVINGS OF THEI.CLERGY. Last night a public meeting in aid of the fund for augrsienrlng the nsmailer livings of the clergy was hei iu the asat Church. Dundee. Sheraf Coeyne occupied tne chair. 'Ihe deputation Lre- sent consisted of lev. Thunms Sarsty, Kirkoii, the convener of the As'enmlsy's Commiuttee un the Smualler Livin-s of the Clergy ; Re. Dr Langi Glasgow ; Ur Jamsees A. ...

... ELECTRIC LIGHTING-CONDITIONAL LICEN&ES. A letter on this subject was on Saturday laid before the Electric Lighting Committee of the Corporation of Ledxs, which more fully than any official docuneat ba i ?? done sets forth the views of the Board of Trade relative to the con- ditions on wnich the Government will assent to l any proposals they may receive for supplying e the electric light. The ...

... , TFIRST DIVISION.-SA'ruanAY1, Nov1ember 4-g Tata TEEAnses SULPHUR COMPANY. ba The difficulty with the objecting creditors having ide been arranged, Mr Jameson to-day appeared I m before their Lordships of the First Division. and I stated that the Tharais Company bad now got pro- ha pared a minute which was necessary in terms of ?? the 15th section of the Companies Act, 1807, F fl setting ...

... ASSOCIATED CARPENTERS AN JOINERS OF SCOTLAND. The twenty-first annral report of the Associated Carpenters ant Joiners for the year ending 31st October has just been issued. Mr Paterson, the secretary, in the course of his introductorY rM- marks, saysr:- Tl,is yearhs again witnessed one! of the too oft recurring disputes in our trade on the upper reaches of the Clyde. There seems to be a ...