... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... TfE CLYDESDALE AT HOME AND ABROAD. (All Rights Feserved.) -I PART L. In cart or ear thou never reestit, The steyest brag thou would base faced it, - Thou never lap and stent agd bresoit. Tbeen stood to blav. BEt just thy step a wee thing hastit Thou anoovst swa .` BRSoRS of Clydesdales all over' the world will readily recognise in the above description by Burns in his New-Year's address to ...

... T.EGJSiT iAR GENERAL'S R:ETURNS. The weekly retnrn of hirthi. deaths, and mar- riages in the eight principlj towns .,f S,4tlnrd for 1 the ceekteutdiunSaturlday. Septemlber 9,aavas:-Tbte death-rate in the ei4lht princiiali ?? during the week ruiidii:g with .Satur tay thletih September, lSS2, IW,., 01;c-r thoceil ff estirti:tet-l ip tllwotji. j IlPltbiraveisl 3 ?? |ci l:-st yenr, buit lfl hzlow ...

... LETTBRS TO THA BDITOR TAXPAYERS AN]) TAX-GATMFRERS&,I 14th Sestember. SIR-What are the clergy about? Let Gist- gow flourish by the preaching of the Word was the city's proud motto in the good old times; but in view of the revelations in your paper as to tihe legion of defaulting ratepayers - ?? 3%D 'annually-the pious motto in question looks lake a satire. It is to be feared that our pulpit ...

... THE INDIAN SUIRVET. The ew rportof the operations of the nian iii Survyapear uasually'soon after the previous I T one; which we notced in December last. In 'the the last renort it was statedi that the principal MM1 triangualation of all India, as originally designed 532ei by Colonel Everest, had been wholly completed says in Southern India, and that very Iittlc-'-only a u single season's work ...

... THE TEElRIBLE RAILWAY . 9ACCIDENT1I IN GERMA.N'Y.\I The Berlin correspondent of the iinaes telegraphs i the following account of the railway accident reported in our columns yesterday:- One of the most terrible railway accidents ever i recorded in Germany happened on Sunday evenigg near Freiburg, in Baden, resulting in the immediate I death of ever 52 persons and the severe wounding ( and ...

... METEOROLOGICAL NOTES, TzEs AT ALMONT, GIOVAN, 1e0 FEET ABOVE SEA a , ?? P AUGUST, 1882, COStlARED WlTE! AUGuST, 1876-S 1, Thermometer. Bsaumstetr. tIM81 ?? 86 2 9 1 57iE0.8s;933c .r [ -7 1 i -K -. ll ?? W - i . ?? t . 1s 2;UM of ys an To lm| Greatezt wh ch fLI 'am Ic''5 124 bourS 91he 3107tn 79ott iore. lS2 l6) ai3 I 11 1 8 | 12 I 9 i7t6-8 ?? 39 29 5753 10 ?? 12 N' I , !if~-Te contractionz - ...

... !ETTErq TO THR EDITOR. ?ASBROKING IN SCOTLAND. Glasgow, 8th September. 182. a lading article which appeared in the, of the 31st nitimo, you reelected, as we Pt r-ong'iully and unjustly upon our trade, rway calculated from its exaggerated spirit 5qct us inju ionly in the estimation of the j Had the ar icle in question appeared in :0'aflu von usually devote to correspondents i? ...