... REGISTRAR-GENERA'S RETURNS The weekly return of births, deaths, and mar- riages in the eight principal towns of Scetland for! the week ending Saturday, July 22, ?? 1 ideath-rate in the eight principal towns during the week ending with Saturday the 22th July, 1882, was 217i per thousand of estimated population. I Thisrate is2 9 abovethatforthe correapondingweek: of last year, and 0-4 above that ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... IMPRIAL PARLIAMENT. oif - HOUSE'OF LORDS ?? th The Loro CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack shortly after feur o'clock. - ' .CYPRUS. Lord WAVENEY intimated tlhat on MXoday, at 24th inst., he would call attention to the condition - and. government; of Cyprus, with a' view to the le colonisation of tbe island, and move for papers. .LNDON RIVERSIDE FISHMARRET r, O' BILL. On the consideration ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... aidTER R A nOR Wednesy Jy 26, &30 PL jT weather over t,,he Unwid Kingdom to-day lsa .byeo finer theu bra long te p. ad so far y D Egl A4 iconcrned, the indicatios for to- ?? _ue ag4'faJerbureble, buth are ;aArdy sips if renewed distoarbac for the ; ,temrn ;adw fethl .districts Th, cenre of a rather longer 4ziif- c1l6e iovW lies over our se6th- western etiorti and- the morth-*atern pat if ...

... (REsaT-rP.e' TEGRAMS.) Alexandria, July 18, 2.30 P.M. The idea of occupying Ramleh has been abandoned, the authorities declaring their object to be to restore peace and order without further bloodshed. The blue jackets are to be withdrawn from duty on shore to-day. Five hundred marines will occupy seven different depot centres, which, it is expected, will place the whole town under efficient ...