... FRIDAY NIGsnr -The weather to-day has To- mained fine in most places, but showers have fallen at one or two of our northern stations. The chart for eight a m. showed that although the depression of the previous two days had passed away to the northward, a subsidiary disturbance had been formed over the southern part of Scandi- navia, so that the barometer is still falling in Sweden. In our ...

... per I V LT0 EDiTOMr 0? TIM LJTtiOL IUBY. e. Gentlemen, -T3dhe newspapera frequently contain reports of meetings held for promoting the remedy zda or restraint of evils which are acknowledged to be. in serious and widespread At many such meetuis re- clergymen are chief speakers, but it is often dife- ipn c cult to gather from their speeches definite ideas as to the precise part they intend to ...

... LOCAL NEWS LORD P. C'RnonIe AND THE LivEarOOL CONSERVATrVEs.-We understand that the Secre- tary of State for India is to meet the Liverpool Conservatives at a demonstration to be held at Henwler's Circus'in October next. SAD DaovwriaG FATALITY AT SsE.&FonTH.- Yesterday, a boy, whose name is unknown, was bathing on the shore at Seaforth, near the dock wall, when he got out of his depth and was ...

... i 9i-o 1 . - n -- ! WSrTSAN MW.L Ornee. 4.rO u.t FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ENGLAND AND RUSSIA. ANTICIPATED SETTLE2MENT o c BTER'S TELEGRAM.] PARIS, FatinAT. A St. Petersburg telegram to-day states dint the Russian Government has despatched propoals to . London regarding Zulficar, to which the assent of ,the British Government arpears Certain. SIR H-1. D. WOLFF. ?? SnISTE'lS TELEGRAM.] CAIRO, ...

... . - . I e A- e. - A. A i Tbe RTomse of fllomlnons met atwo olook on Friday afternoon, a fairly good ?? baing present. T'he Front Oppositio Benh th was empty, and the only Cabinet Minister ra present was Lord Randolph Churnhill. po shortly after two occlk 13Blaock Hod sam- ab nioned the mrembers to the House of Lords th to hesr the queen's Speech reid, and, headed bi2 by the 8peak-er, the ...

... 'FOREIGN _NEWS. .[eudmrb _ )Zeramsj : S Au . .FRANCE. . PsAnis, August IS ...

... A GLASGOW VESSE ij X _ CYCLONE. I The steamer Marblaban, of Gla-gow, anpeana- t have had a hard battle to fiht in the ?? l the Gulf of Aden. Describing the voyage of ±,b ship, the Pangoon (,kczck says that on the it .June tihere was nothing to indicate a storm, but; six o ...

... SPEECIAL TELEGRAMS. &c. 'th ?? death is announced of Mr. John Walker, ly eldest of the well-known family of cricketers to The prisoner Maxwell, who stands charged with ut the murder of Mr. Preller, has arrived at St. x- Louis in custody and been lodged in jaii.-Rester. Ts MaJor General Dormer, who left Cairo for Alex- ht abdria yesterday en rout tor England, will be h tappointed to a post at ...

... GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA IN AFGHIANISTAN, a A RETROSPECT 18301S85 On 21st May, 1880, Lord Hartington, the new Secretary of State for India, addressed to the Governor-General in Council a despatea dealing with the Afghan situation, and indicat- ing the lines on which Government proposed to treat it. Dwelling Oil the numbers of the force employed across the frontier, tie heavy financial ...

... GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS THE RAILWAY COOIGREB. ax [FROoo ur.e Oweeq COoaRSVcsioxcST] wE; Brussels, Saturday night.-The Railway Coo- I~dr gro~sslivid itstSisal sitting haire to-day, w~hen re-' o.r solutions were passed. iii favour of anothcer Con- 'she press, islen thes technical questions iii too- I Io i nectiun with railway working anod masosge- ties ment will be studied, and in) favour of ...

... ILATEST LODoN NEWS. I [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] LONDoic, Thursday nightb ThePrince of Wales left King's Cross Station ps by the -half-past eight o'clock train this evening ari for Aberdeen. I found a large crowd assembled pr5 to witness thedeparture of lIis lloyal Highness, nrls and as he crossed the platform, clad ill tourist Re garb and looking exceedingly well, lie was R saluted with ...

... I AGRICUL4TURE. I LANARK GREAT LAB FAIR. The second of those fairs was opened yesterday mnornin g, and esteeidn over to-day, for the sale of blsckfaced wethoc and ewe lambs. There was beautiful weather, and the stock was stanned under th~e best possibls advantages. It is competed thlat there lies been ecooced. on the moor 15,000, and Messrs Lawrie & Syminigtcon had in their mart. 24,000, so ...