... THE REPRESENTATION OF EAST ABERDEENTSHRE. MEETING OF LIBERALS AT NEW MAUD. On Saturday afternoon a, meeting of Liberal electors, di connected with East Aberdeenshire was held within re the Auction Mart at New Maud for the purpose of w'~ considering -what steps ought to be taken to secure a c thoroughly Liberal Parliamentary representative at the approaching general election. The circular ...

... OU ER PLOTS. . . .~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [BY,~ A SEAFARM15r. In a recent article I' eubinitted the case of the ar elI rilote, as stated by one of 'ibeir own body. InI the to following paper I propose to, include the information 0f Ihav e obtained respecting the earniupc, hasrdships, fo sad other features of the I.ilot's vocation from in- re julrise made at ports around tile United King.domi. St It ...

... |GENERALRFYMEIGNINEWS __J r THE CHOL1A IN SPAIN. [FBOM OUR OeS CORBISPONDEiT.] Madrid, Saturday night-During the last 24 hours there havj been 598 fresh cases of tchplera, and 303 deaths in the province of Valencia; 64 ca;is and 43 deaths in Valencia capital; 52 casts and 28 deaths in Murcia capital; 155 cses and 76 deaths in Murcia province ; 10 cases and 3 deaths in Toledc capital ; 15 tases ...

... ' THE FALL OF KHARTOU.ll EXTRAORDINARY REPORT .BY A k FUGITIVE. REPORTED POSSIBLE BSCAPh OF GEINERAL GORDIO.N. [FROM Oct OwVE CouRasPo.NrwDRN.]1 Cairo, Tuesday afternoon.-A Coptic mer- chant who was one of the few men who managed to escape from Khartoum after the massacre has arrived here, after a long and painful journey, and has made a most astounding statement to the authorities. He asserts ...

... I EBXRAORDhNARY ALLEGATION AGAINST TEIE UINISTlFM. PROBING THE GRAVES WITH AN IRON ROD. The Rev. James 1a-n, minister of the parish of JDuthil, Carr Bridge, in the romantic valley of Strath- it opey, bas irritated the feeling of his parishioners by a publishing a letter in one of the local papers to the effect that the graves in the old churchyard of Duthil, W which adjoins his unoccupied ...

... A Parliament-ry paper just published contains reoi ports from Her Majesty's diplomotic and consulay officers upon the consumption of intoxicating liquord abroad, Consul-General Oppenheimer estimates, w ith regard to Germany, that in the distilleries of the' I Empire in 1875 and 1876 at least 200,000 litres o4 pure alcohol were produced for mere consumption- or, in round numbers, six litres per ...

... THTE EPTITSENTAT1ON OF ABERDEEN. 'dP 1'tBET EENTEE TRADES COTNLCIL C ND T. ' lL LIBERAL ASSOCIATION, a: ?7__-C'T1OuN 01' DR W. A. HUN~TER AS A LA'BOUR CANDIDATE. Ui 4A ci5i. i the Trades Councilc earheld lastbh inl the Northeorn Bail to consider the questionuh iii, 1'aclianientr'rty representation of the city. Mar ci Thomnp.'on miscidod. fC 'cc Chairnanm said that before they proceeded to ...

... NORTHERN CO-OPER.4TIVE CMOMPAN'Y. Si,-I have been reading with interest the letters appearing in reference to the Co-operative Company. I have been a shareholder for many years. My ob- ject in joining was to get cheap goods, and not to em- plov the company as bankers, Any little savings I may have are well looked after in Exchange Street, and the suim can be realised with interest. I am only a ...

... iLATEST LoNDON NEWS, I . [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] LoNDON, Monday night. Political affairs are practically at a standstill, and indeed until the business of Parliament is resumed next week there is not likely to be much pabulum for the politicians The Ministerial elections promise for the most part to go off quietly Instead of going down into the country and addressing their constituents, ...

... A HORRIBLE MASSACREs Arriving at Equator Station, writes Ir H. M. Stanley, a curious story was related to us by two European eye-witnesses of the proceedings the oar- ration of which recalis to our memories the san- guinary customs of Dahomey. We had heard of cruel sacrificing of life before: but the stories were told by Africans, who have the habit of relating events of this kind in the most ...

... 11 i Wr 01 arlei Williams ithas 'commulfioated the fol. lowing rejoinder :ter the stmtefaent uof 5ir Cbsrlets ;Wiilson soioerniog thehfall oi Xhartoum :- ,-I wiill not attempt to imitate SirtCharleg soll's I ,method -df controverqy. Lan quite'eonteat that e sihould retain the explutive honour of iimpviing fale- hood respecting the points which were communicated to me by a man as ...

... ,U -=_ - 4r H -- H .H , | SmTTGGLT2NO IN1 THiE HIGHLANW.) ee EXTENSIVEJ SBIZURES. nt o Our Beauly correspondent writes :-Since the duty le upon spirits has been increased, it is supposed sruar- ssj glers have been somewhat stimulated to prosecute t'-e rl I distillation of whisky with' greater vigour than has le been evident forsomemonths past. WhilelXrbouacaster of the Inland Revenue here, ...