... MT THE RECEPTIO-N'OF THE QUEEN'S PIIMZELkN- AT DUM1BARTON. L ost aight Serge ant Lawrence, the winner of 2 the Queen's prize, arrived in Dumbarto=, ani rw s t received with every manifestation of rejoicing. . He arrived with the 7 P.m. train, and was met at 1 the station by the Dumbarton rifle corps, underj the command of Captain John l r. Denny and Lieutenant William 13. Thomston, and the Dum ...

... The balf-yearly meetig of the General Council of the UniversiLy of Aijerdeenvwa-s held ire tue Marischal. Colhee BulldiSo 3esterday-Jrtucipoa Pirie presidiug. ?? James Atoir, Rector of the Aberdeen Gram- mar &chooi (ormterlyoi the ijgh; z:chol,Ulasgowj, moved- Teat thle CCoucil respectfujly represeut to the University Court that it is expedieut ldI desirable that an Lxecotive COntIIIrdiLll ...

... THlE FAIR HOLIDAYs. Since the Fair began the weather hat been uniformly of that bright genial da N tion which makes holiday-making pleasa0-s enjoyable. Low barometric pressure steadily prevailed for some days pasz the predictions issued by the Meteor,, A Office have not been enconragnig. Dam course of yesterday sevefal heavy showers , rain fell, and the weather prospects are 3Vjj Lq from being ...

... GLASGOW TOWS COt?NCIL - - , rnoal montbjvMotrnP of the GlyO lie r ,ndlwas held kysterdaythe Hon. a zd Frovost in the chair. lad O RD oWVOSTi. ors ' ) read alte Ou tte T ~m~t.EaK ?? xe..Wb\;~~e~bl'r-sm TherTo - rWh, iitee, o behalf of ire Committee f ero Jr.- offring to present to the Corpora- Ot prta of ox _Lord ProvostSrJae hs1) -,MrHedoinanR . A. to oSaidS it ha', been the prae-tice he L- ? ...

... THE REVOLUTIGONARY MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA. ADDRESS IN TsE CITY AL Pr 3UB REn KAPOTKIN. I Last night, in the City Hall, Prince Krapo~tkl,, ! the Russian exile, delivered an address on the Russian flevolutionary Movemeat. Mr J. I Shaw Maxwell presided, and there was a good attendance, the hall being about three-fourths filled. The CHAju.w±N, in the course of a few introduc- tory remarks, sai. ...

... FRA1CE nee I (oR31 oU OWN CORfESPONDhNIT.) ll-pPsxrs, July 14. old The people axe keeping high holiday to-day, f and are amusing themselves in their wonted d pastimes on national fetes. The streets and boulevards show, perhaps, a diminution in the Ple; number of flags or coloured lanterns compared bad with the two preceding years, brt in the fau. in bourgs, where the working class congregate, ...

... (mOM OUR ?? CORRESPONMDNT.) Melbourne, August28. I An atrocious attempt to take the life of the Roman Catholic Archbishop was made by P. A. C. O'Farrell last Monday afternoon. How it was not successful seems most wvonderful, see- ing O'Farrell was within two yards of his intended victim when he fired two shots, and. when both were standing face to face. One of the bullets hit and wounided the ...

... SEEcaES Er LORDS rOUN;, ADAM, AYD iA'LBSN. t The annual dinner of the. Glasgow Juridical 3Society was held last night in the George Hotel, I George Square. A company of abent a hundred wa |s presided- over by Sheriff Clark, with Mr J. 'IT. T. Brown as croupier, and amongst the other gentlemen present were Lord Young, Lord Adam, _Lord M'Lare, MIr C. D. VDonald (Dean et * Faculty) Professor T. A ...

... D. (From our Melbourne correspondent.) Rosedale, Gippsland, Victoria, 17th January, 1882. The numerous attractions of Gippsland have led me to select Rosedale as a likely centre where a friend and myself might take up quarters to enjoy a brief holiday. For around this pleasant township there is considerable variety of scenery-mountain and plain, open and forest country, river and lagoons close ...

... olao T?zralb - ,a.VW TUESDAY MIORNING, JUNE G., in the House of Lords yesterday aibill'deal, ing with burglary and forgery was introduced} th( by Lord Bramnwell and read a first time. 1eoply-t ing to questions regarding the affairs of --gypt, an Lord Granville said there was no truth in the Aid statements that the Sultan had refused his raJ assent to the proposed Conference, ,and that ha. Lord ...

... THE COMIG GROUSE SEASON. *r (ar A SFORPTO?G COHTarehwot.) 'o atALTnzouGH it is'mnucb too soon to form anything Pt like a correct estimate of the present year's - !'grouse supply so far as young birds are con- in cerned, I think it is only right to let it be co known as early as possible that on some of our g Scottish moors a large. percentage of the old is grouse have been attacked by a ...

... THE E mPERORT lvgiUAwS BIRTHDA . (RtlETarS TsEiGIt , zIS.) Berlin, M1arch 22.' Trhe' Emperor Wflliamn's eighty-fifth birthday, was ushered in- early this morning by a fanfare of *trampefs frbmn the tower of the ImperiaL Castle. In all the schools the forenoot was obh- aerved. as a holiday, and thanksgivirg services, ,which wvere-.iattended by- large con rtieo5s were held in all the Berlin ...