... ELECTRIC LIGHTING-CONDITIONAL LICEN&ES. A letter on this subject was on Saturday laid before the Electric Lighting Committee of the Corporation of Ledxs, which more fully than any official docuneat ba i ?? done sets forth the views of the Board of Trade relative to the con- ditions on wnich the Government will assent to l any proposals they may receive for supplying e the electric light. The ...

... ASSOCIATED CARPENTERS AN JOINERS OF SCOTLAND. The twenty-first annral report of the Associated Carpenters ant Joiners for the year ending 31st October has just been issued. Mr Paterson, the secretary, in the course of his introductorY rM- marks, saysr:- Tl,is yearhs again witnessed one! of the too oft recurring disputes in our trade on the upper reaches of the Clyde. There seems to be a ...

... LAST WEXH&S WRECKS. A % MOment ShoWing the ?? Of ?? vrrecke, with ibiii cargoes. creow, &c,. reported darive the week ended 2d December. 1882:- I I. Crew and Natienality Crew. or 2 Cr. a FPort whre. Cut British. Aecringlon Lam S Fleetwood.. Lead ore.. AL _ Scheenl44) ?? , Sunderland. 58 Coals l. .Aminius ?? S IGrangemt'h ' 2-coaLa:..:. , _lL Cedar Grove St ?? - lenerl .L.. 5 12 Foretter S ...

... The latest sews from Skye is that a newv batch of Lord Macdorald's crofters have refused to pay rent until certain grievances are redressed. The former agitation among his Lordship's tenants was in the neighbourhood of Portree. The new outbreak is among the crofters of Bretkish-a township lying on the sea coast betireell Brbadford and Kyleakin, some twenty miles further south. The grievance ...

... . Windsor Castle, December S. e The Queen and Princess Beatrice walked and drove this morning, attended by the Hon. Horatio Stopford. in The Duchess of Albany drove, attended by Lady Knightley. a j His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, Dul-e of 1, Albany, attended by General Right Hon. Sir E. Ah Ponsenby, went to Addington to-day, and was At present at the funeral of the Archbishop of Can- ...

... MsTEORODOGICAL OrFici, Friday, Dec. 1, 10.30 pr. The weather to-day has been very foggy over the central and south-eastern parts of England and 'misty in the north-east, while en our western coasts it has been cloudy and rainy. The S ,.m chart showed that in the course of the previous night the barometer bad fallen generally, and that a small depression had advanced to the neighbour- heed of ...

... About five o'clock vesterday morning, t'he boots in the White Hart Hotel, Catheart Square, Greenock, suddenly awoke, feelina a choking sensation, and oa getting out of bed, lie found his room filled with smoke, indicating the near presence of burning wood. He at once aroused the rest of the inmates, and an alarm haviug been given, the fire brigade was soon on |the spot. The fire by this time ...

... - THE LORD-ADVOCATE AT ALLOAt. f The Lord-Advocate, Jr J. B. Balfour, Q.C., ?? addressed a imeeting of bis constituents at) Alloa last night, the first of a series wbich he is to dhold this week in Clackmannanshire. The meet- mag, which took place in the Corn Exchange, was well attended. Mfr JAMes Kirk, Iepu zman ef ?? Coimittee, presi amongsttthose who acconpanied the hon, aid '*earned ...

... Mr Craig-Sellar, M.P. for the Hadding.ton in Bnrghs, in replying last night at a dinner in 1din-r burgh for the Houses of Parliament, said that J beth Houses suffered much from maiadies-the Lower House from congestion of work, and the o Upper House from having nothing to do. The f Houes, however, had rubbed on very well Of together, sad he hoped that they would continue to do so for many years ...

... ELEVATION OF THE ATTORNEY- GENERAL TO THE BENCH. The Attorney-Geueral, Mr Johnson, M.P., has! accepted the vacant Judgeship in the Queen's Bench,. He arrived in Mallow yesterday, and in. in formed his supoorters that there was now a vacancy in the representation of the borough. It: bth is stated that Mr J. Nash, law adviser, will be the is Liberal candidate. Mr IV. O'Brien, editor of United ...

... IH.M.S. JACKAL COURT-MA1lTIAIL Under the presidency of Vice-Admiral Sirin. Doweli, ?? a Court-Martial assembled yester- day on board HI.S. Vkticry; in Portsmouth Harbour, for the trial of Mr Win. Lyndon, boats. -ain of ILM.S Jackal, employed on the coast of Scotland for the Protection of Esberies, upon the charge of improperly disposing of stores be. longing to the ship on or about August 11th ...

... 8EflIoUS ILLNESS OF THE POSTM ASTERi-GENE RAL. lit pub!ic will learn from the bulletins in : rnce to Mr Favrcett's condition issued on ::-dav night and yesterday, that while the isnterlai3 still presens, the fever by which it : o ern acconipanied has deaveloped the char- ;:.sn'tcs or typh'oid. The symptoms had caused s.aii to be ap rehended, and from the ?? rssued on Saturday evening, after ...