... DIRESS Di THR WESTMN ISLANDS AND HfGEILA&M. I (NOTES BY A OOBEBSONDEKT.) ' Discass in the Hebrides, and the West High- lands generally, on several former occasions !necessitated appeals to the citizens of Glasgow for aid, and these appeals were generously re- aponded to. These occasions, however, were very differentfrosn the present one. They were occasions of famine consequent upon a succes- ...

... BOILERMAKEERS' AND IRON SHIP- BUILDE S' FRIENDLY SOCIETY. The second annual festival of the Boilermakcers' and Iron Shipbuilders' Friendly Society was held in the Grand National iHalls, -.Main Street, Gor- bals, last night. 'The Lord Dean of Guild UMlr Alex. Stephen) occupied the chair, and lie was accompanied to the platform by 3r Dl. Rowan, ?? Young, of Got-as- Rev. John MNxurray, Calton ; ...

... FAILURES, A petiren is liquidation has been filed at the Oidham County Court on behalf of Samuel Myer.a- cough, of Cambridge House, Castlemere, hoch- dale, teacher of rouic; liabilities, £130D. The creditors of Edmnund Whitehead, silk and poplin manufacturer, Piccadilly, Manchester and Tonge, held a ;neeting yenterday. The liabilities wore £23c1.5 and the assets £'005. Liquidation was resolved ...

... THE FINANCIAL CIUSI IN FRANCE. (RtEiSt'S TLEGXRAjL) .taris, February 2. The failure of the Union Geuerale was declaed to-day by the Tribunal ot Commerce. AU. bontoux, president of the Union Gednrale, and M. FEcuer, the manager, were arrested last ouight duriug the board meeting of the conipany, it as stated that legal proceedings have been conu. umenced against several of tue directors. The ...

... I GKOEAI, FORE[GN NEWS,; ?? i T]iE ISND OF J^1sC4 New 5!ork, February Z;f. Accordiag to intelligence received here Zm Eujgi - n,. JatnianciaW to the 11th iDi;, a rferiiu- . tiOfW b bee2 F:^ssed by the ive Council dechring ?? tlle en;penaefs ef the ?? d tbe t fifu of Cn 5 l;overamsut showed fWU fwrete acesis cf £2s0XXIOtO over iany fibZ pericd sn the ?? vf wf the coiony witit any adeqte ...

... TEE STONEFIELD MISSION HALL, &BZAAR IN THE CROWS ILtLTS. |Under the ausgices of the F'ree Presbytery of IHailton, a bazaar to aid in extinguisbmg the debt ou tile mission hall at. Stoneicldwas opeu-edyester- day in the Crown l-alls, SaucchieLall Street. There wvlere ?? Browne, Crosshill; B<iec \Watson; Rev. TMessrs J. A. Fletcher, WI. Ross Taylor, Ogilvie, -Motherivell; Ogilvie, Coatbridge; ...

... 'Tlis handsotne screw-steamer has just been coin. pleted by -Messrs K. 'apicr & Sous for Messrs Ge'. Thompson & Co., of Aberdeen andf Londlon, and is inteniled to fneru the poniioer vessel of their ste.rin e, et for their Chinese and Australian trade. Hitherto -Messrs Gen. Thompson & Co. have car- ried on their extensive shiipixig business by a lare Ileet of sailitg ships, all built at their ...

... THURSDAY ?IQRNINO-, F?uai?Y 23. Yesterday, in the H~ouse of Comm2ons, which did not meet till two o'clock on account of its. being Ash W~ednesday, nearly the whole Sitting was devoted to the Bradlaugh question. M~r Gladstone, while declaring that the conduct of the member for Northamnpton w as scandalous in the highest degree,.and that some strougmeasure was required against him, said he was ...

... blasslow IVralb. FRIDAY MORNING, FzBRut7RY 3. The difficulties in Egypt, arising out of the attitude assumed by the revolutionary party in the Chamber of Notables, arrived at a critical I stage yesterday, and has led to the resignation of Cherif Pasha, the head of the Government. For some time past the members of this party have been formulating their programme, and yesterday they submitted it ...

... TEE FaUPS ?AUX SWINDLE. Mr Poland, the solicitor to the Treasury, who was expected in Birsiulgharn yesterday to takeI up the prosecution, did not arrive. it is fully believedS by the police that Furuesux had four accomplices, and there are rumlours of more arrests. A letter found yesterday amongst the correspondence of the womean Furneaux tends to throwv some light uponI her grievance with ...

... aLASGOW FOUNDRY BOYS' RELIGIOUS SOCIETY. T'e annual Ibusiness meeting of ths Glasgow Feacrylis, hicugloes Soctety was h.-ld iL tie I (sLstiin Lastinte last night. Mir James -Dick, | .re:et h the sstiez- occupied tt-h chair. There v.i soe~d a;temiua-. - Mr ions CtaeI,1, secretary, submitted the iiktoebta uual rerort, Which stated that ire 1 ast ocr 'sadoe t c r`teady progress aud cruored ...

... KEATS AND SEVEIRN. Until some four years ago the English travel. Iler at Rome had it within his power to become acquainted there with an illustrious fellow-coun- I trymau who attracted slender attention from his adopted Italian hosts, though he had once been English Consul at Rome, and who paid almost as little heed to the annual tide of foreign visitors asthe fisherman mending his nets pays ...