... BsNIQUET TO MR HENRY IRVING. The Lord Chief-Justice of England presided on pan] Wednesday at St James's Hall over a banquet given yous 1w admirers of Mr Irving asi an actor, on the occasionha 4~ his departure for an extendled professional touir 'wh America The great hail pn7-ored a charmingly just attractive .-epne~arance, the whole ,paue behind the'i- stage and the organ being filled with ...

... COMMERCIALA .1 NTELLLGENCE. On. the ABERDEEN STOCK2 EXCHANGE the following business was done :-Northern Assurance, £44 lOs (twice) and £44 12s tid; Arkansas Valley Cattle and Land, £5 Os 3d; Ab?rdeon Steam laundry, £1 14s Gd; Aberdeen Steam Navigation, £3 La. CLOSISiS rttwaa-2lt P.M. K Sb. Pd. up. RAILWAYS Levees Selier? elk. lSOGrcat.NorthotS.zotlnn'I.058 15 0 60 6 0 * elk. 100 Do., 4 percent ...

... ABEI?DEEN uh?'?YA. L\FIR?ki ?{Y. APPEAL T4) TH}: W~OPli;lO C'LA.SE'S. The Treasuarer of theo Infirmary, Mr' Carnie, by i:,structtons of thle Special Coom- mit'tee, has issued a tcirc ular inviting the co-operation, of employers of labour in the effikots nlow making ons behalf of the Hospital. He encloses cOtpies of anl A.p- peal to the Wvorking-Classes.'a and asks that these may be hanlded to ...

... tel The following is the text of the Government Bill for Pr constituting a Local Government Board for Scotland :-. ou Be It enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 87. by and with the advice and consentof theLordsspiritual ho: and temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament 1ti assembled, and by and 'with the same authority, as P e follows is This Act may be citeil as the Local ...

... FIVE P$P1dONS KIZtttM AND: THIRSTY ;NJlURED. Whilst a steam ?? car wvas running d ow,4 a Iopg incline at Rudders~eld ?? afternoon the brake failed to act, and as the engsiner we4 unable to reverse the engine, t-he ¢ar gained;L a trem endous Uesed, and on reaching the curve into St Georges Sluare, it turned com- pletely over; Two passenge-rs were killed out- right, andl about thirty vere ...

... WATREHR REPORT AND FOBECASTS. -MnXsoaotoerc4Aa OrmrazI!;, Monday, Jnly. 9, B The wea over the British Isllads, though air in the snals sad egat than it was yesterday, 3is.n anytbhig but & settled coditcion geerlly. Th emell] but wlf ?? depreeion whihel apptared-pe our south-rest coasts on Suntay uvral- I*g moved ?? during the night, and a~pprently dispersed, or bemame so much modified tio form ...

... ' THE TWELFTH OF, JULY. t Yesterday being the ?? of Jolly the usual Ir~n~e demrionstratioes in celebration of the battle of the Boyad took place all over the- couatry. - GLASGOW. Byg the Oraidnernen of, the litr and subtarbs the 'GloriousrTveifth waa sd ulyobserredanc celebrated. The day was, however by no wme as, bright from a nseteorological point of aier.r Heavy showers ef ain, fellh almost ...

... GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS, (raUTEn's TELEGAMz~S). THE SUEZ CANWAL. Paris, July 27. The ?? to-day -declares tha IT? Gadsonetooi: hemoat prudent atdd ?? couaise in regard to) the finerz Canal 4nn-ption, and thus geverted a Ministerial crisis which would have engaged the gene~ral policy of the country; f or bad the Tories returned to power they would have done, so with all the vio- lence which the ...

... T-J- a s SHQ _ Q;G3 o0,7o16 ronBESPS!EiZ) Iorness, Friday Night. Trr S Vea r ?? thian t expe:ieaced h EhD;SOOt^9y~s sxhca to-day, could 'be I. , Ing it was somewhat dull, a065 it cieared up, ;and for the rest of @t~)INS - Ecml; 5ne in a cloudless sky. The dr.11 ~! i - m ade every possible arrange- F 1:C., a- Ppeople to visit Inverness on this day tbe sho0w, an;? of the facilities he ncrthern ...

... THE BECKFOr.D LiBRARy. The eals of the thired portion of the Becloord liborary, forming an important morore= of te.m Hamilhon Palace labrarlies (the property of the fluke of Hamilton), wee broug~ht to a, close on Satnrdaiby Messrs Sotheby, #illdnsoa& Hodg, ctte.amts, Wellington, Street, Stuna. The following were the best prices :-Thevennnau de Mforande's Scandalous Anecdotes of the Coart of ...

... ITlE DISTURBANCES IN WEST AF'RICA. Siera Leone, June 27 (via Liverpool). The recent vi orous efforts of the Local Authori- ties of Sherbre ins pursuing and chastising turbulent natives up country bas had a marked effect. Chief GQpowe's capture has not been effected, andi as be has fed to the interior there is very little chance of hia being taken. 'Tbe acting canmrandant has made ...

... DRAIN ROOM CAPICOPS. LoNDON, Saturday. For off-coast cargoes of wheat to-day there is apparentlly no bidding either ?? sailing vessels or steamners, the hot weather being rather unfavour- able for a market already depressed through other causes. lids id United Kingd am and 36s 9d Con- tinental is relosed for -an Azima steamer. In carter on pasesae and for Pbipment, there is no demaind for red ...