... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 4 Prompt as to thme and attractive in appearance i t as each of the preceding volumes, our towns- t Inun (Messrs Blackie & Son) have, with their j i! third vorlume BI nfr o0rsvies land AxSan- 1 dale's}i i4nerial Dictionary, made another h decisive step towards completing what!, not only promises to be, but, so far t as gone, already is, the nearest approach yeti a made in this country to the ...

... SEERIFF MAIR AND PROVOST BLACK I OF AIRDRIE. I Last night, at the usual monthly imeeting of thie Airdrie Town Council, Councillor Harvie said it I was a matter of notoriety that language had been used by Sheriff Mair in speaking of the Provost in a public mneeting which reflected on his charac- ter as the Chief Mfagistrate of the town. He was sure the Conncil would desire to learn if the ...

... , VEW ELECTRIC APPLIANCES. |While the Swans and the Edisons, the Lane Foxes and the Maxims, Father Brush and his offspring, and many more electric andtelephone companies are sqnabbling among themselves like so many corm orant 'as to whether one par- ticular patent for an incandescent lamp or a telephone' is an infringement of auother-while | real progress in the development of electricity i ...

... SERIOS fS DTSORBArCES AT DLNFERXLrN& The decision of the magistrates of Durfermline that the policemenkhould not afford the Salvation Army special protection was last night commu, nicated to the Captain of the detachment, and he, thinking discretion the better part of valour, resolved to dispense with the procession until the excitement. which has now prevailed foi more than a week, had died ...

... IRELIND.-- K THE MUSDEF OF A CONSTABLE AT LETTEE.ERAO . The trial if Michael SWalsh, for' the murder of i CIonstable Kav iaah atILetterfrack, County Gal- way, -was resumed yesittrday, ?? Mr Justice Lawson, -irn Green Streit Court-Louse, Dublin. Mr Bodkinhbving addressed the jury on behal of I the trisoner, 'fle Solicitor-General replied. JudgetAtssN, i ruins up,said it was really 'a very short ...

... |SOLUTE SCIENCE CONGRESS. .n ox OUR OWNs cozitESOxi)ET.) THE var ious sections of' the Social Science Con- gress met to-day; Between 600 and 70 tickets have now been sold-as figure which seems small lwhen contrasted with the numbers who havel ! atened ?? meetings in other towns.} The attendance at th~e sectsionial meetings wras ' 3 rather thin, and at no time during the day did ,the discussion ...

... THE LORD MX;YOR OF LONDONT AT- TILE HAGUE. r I- a (sac-tF.Is TELEGRAM.) e Thle Hague, September 20. The Lord Mayor of London. accompanied by his suite, arrived here by express train from Flushing at half-past tea this mormmia. Count Schimmel- Perminck, Grand-Mlaster of Ceremonies, was in e waiting at the railway. a 'This afternoon, after having visited the objects e of interest in the town, ...

... LORD CARINARVON ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS. e. The Earl of CarDarvon delivered an address last! .g night on the present state of public affairs to the )r members of the Newbury Working Men's Con- servative Club. There was a large attendance, the chair being taken by Celonel SirPobert LoydLind- ie say, M.P., and among others on-the platform were ij Mr P. Wroughton, ?? Sir Alex. Arbnthnott, nK.C.S.1.; Mr ...

... DISPERSION OF THE M¢ONTBLETTON POLLED HERD. Yerterdar the entire herd of pure bred polled C Aberdeen and Angus cattle bred with so much c care and success during the past half-century by 5 the late Mr Walker. Mfontblettolt, near Banff, was disposed of by public auction in preseice aof a large attendance of breeders and farmers in the C North of Scotland. From the superiority of the g animals ...