... BT GBEN A WV A TO EVEEEy READER OF TEE ABERDEEN JOURNAA,0 A REAL GOLD PENCIL CASE GUARANTEED GEALSINE. EXTRA SPECIAL NOTICE, (SSE Coctorw BELOW.) lye have much plesonie Is rinounning iisat nrrangemeuta have been made to forward free to every reader of tile paper (subjet to the Co ditiona named below) thet Large and Mgagnlfoeurtly-Coloured OIL PICTURIE, entitled- A WRECK ON THE GOODWIN SANDS. ...

... I Trix third annual meeting of the Scottish Fariners' Alliance was heldiinAberdecn on Thurs- day-Mr Johnl aeo, Iladdi,, the president, in a the chair. The report predicted much good to the cause of land law refornifroIIthe operations orF the past year, and the rapidity with which public opinion had advanced inl Scotland entitled themn to look for legislation on the land ques- t.on very soon. ...

... THE-.OT.DANYCAMPAIGN..: I~~ ~~~~ _ _ _ . . . I THE BATTLE AT. MATAMNEH.4 CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED. GENERAL STEWART RECOVERING. [OCFFIoAL TELEGRAM.] (From Lord Wolseley to the Secretary for War.) Korti, 29th Jan., 10.30 aan. Notes from a medical report received from Gubat state that General Stewart is progressing most favourably. He is wonderfully free from f inflammatory symptoms, and is ...

... AI9POINTM ANTS, PROMO T10Th3, AND IIETTREMENTS. |CO .arMANnrrss-Clharles R. Arbuthnot, to the Royal1 A delaide;* Robert MT- Evans, to the Valorons, additional for the Valentine; Charlesf *. Robinson, to the Vrernon. c~ddicion'sl. I;Tfsrwi3?r ?? Pliagles tO the Asia, for the Cordelia: ('ci e'icnnemes 'hnrsby tonic Miaotauar atdditionfl: W~i iiamfle vetson, to the Tvne. 53un.LIzicU'TENAN1z ...

... T:EE BISHOP OF RIPON IN WAKEFIELD. Dr. Boyd Carpenter, the Bishop of Ripon, having paid a visit to Wakefield on the occasion of the annual soirte of the Church Institution, his Lordship was entertained Yesterday afternoon to a public luncheon in the hanquot- room at the Town Hall. The Rev. dianon STRATON, Vicar of Wakefield and Rural Pean, presided, and he was supported by all the principal ...

... LETTERS TO TIE EDITOH DEAN OF GUILD AND PROFESSOR - GAIRDNER. St Vincent lane, 28th Jandary, 1885. SIB, - Owing to the vrell-known C ?? loquendi of toe learned Professor it is always difficult to condense his meaning, even When you comprehend it; but comparing what I said at the meeting on Mlonday ivith his letter -in to'dsy'e' paper, the difference, to use his own term, is inappreciable. ...

... | Colonel Majendie and Colonel Ford revisited Westminster Hall and the House of Commonrs yesterday and completed their inspection there. ; Despite the fact that a numerous staff of work. .nen have been engaged sinee Monday afternoon in clearing away the dehris from the interior of the House their task has not yet been com- pleted. At the Tower no steps have been taken to remove the ddbris, ...

... THE NEWIS FROM THE DESERT. TiE news from the desert stirs the blood like the sound of a ?? Seldom has there been any operation more brilliantly con- ccixcd or more bravely executed than that by which our troops ?? across two hundred miles of desert in the presence of an enemy ten times their number, andsucceeded in opening communi- cations with the beleaguered garrison at Khartoum. Everything ...

... TIS DA Y'S PAPERS T1aE ACCEPTANCE or THE ENGLISH PROPOSALS. Thle T7ha.es says 1 that the Powers have accepted the English proposals, lite somae minor points of detail still remain open for discussion ; it is sub- stantiallY agreed that 9,000,000 shall be raised upon an international garantee resembling the Anglo-French guarantee of the Turkish loan of u8 5 .nd that this guarantee shall ...

... iVfY REP'LY TO TAiM- 'P.ALL HAILL c1:z/;T2E. DV a Ir. Pi(Iv l1ION. JOIN B1 3 tI r, M.P. I ITwN we publishcd The Truth ahout the Navy we sent a copy to Mt B right, in the forlorn hope that, as the colleague and heir of Mr. Cobden, lhe would see his way to sulpport Mr. Cobden's demand for the expen- diture of' whatever amount of money might be necessary to secure that irrxsistible ...

... NTIMItuvelb NOTES ON FARMING AND FARMING TOPICS. The past week has been charactexised by unsetlaed ,wather, and farmers have had to change their plans to s:it i., so that work has bet-n unsettled too. On the morning o- the 22nd we had perhaps the sharpest frost of the ,casorn hitherto, ?? the only single nights frost that tas stopped ?? ploughs, and instead of thawing as the £ Sf advanced it ...

... THE PROTECTION tOF WOMilf AND CHILDREN, The annual meeting of the suppoi'3to of the Nort bm- '.id Association for the rrotection of .Women mad Chu!dren Mill bo held at three o'cloci this FLiday aftesioon in the Northumber- land Hall, Newcostle. Pacers s:ll be read on the P.aposed industrial Home, by Captain Nicholls, and Our future ;, by :~r lbom, Fumplrey. A public meeting ?? be held l ...