... --ST= T- D - Ad *h A e- HOSPITAL SUNsDAY IN ABE.DEEE-N. |In accordance twith established custom, yesterday being the first Sabbath of the year, the annual collection was made in aid of the funds of the Aber. deen Royal Infirmary. By several congregations the collection has been postponed, but so far as collec. tions have been made, the total realised y-esterday was £660 los GNd, compared with ...

... TEM CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT. u urnderstand that reducvons of an extensive mad( c character are about being made in -the salaries thes of officers serving in Her Alaiesty's Customs. as w It is expected that the esiimates for this branch ence of the service in 1886-i will be the lowest stron since the year 1854. Throughout the United Kin- I hear. | dom collectors' salaries will be reduced, the ...

... 20C0ETY GOSSIP. |LFRONT THE WORLD,] i |' Lord and Lady Rosebery, who have been residing I I at Mentmore since they came up from Scotland, f intend to remain there for some weeks, and will t entertain a sucCessiOn -of SatLidaV to Monday parties. t o . Lady Roberts will leave England to join Sir t Frederick; on the 8th proximo.s The marriage arranged between Miss Hope Vere c and Mir Everett ...

... LATEST LONDON NE~WS. i ,.- . - - I [PROMOUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] i LONDON, Friday night. e The Queen has been pleased to accept the resignation of theGoVernm ent, teiidered to her L, by Lor-1 Salisbury. Her Majesty, it is under- rc e stood, has done so with considerable reluctance, T a but, as. was anticipated from the outset, Lord1 S Salisbury has- impressed. upon her the im- possibility of ...

... LAN-D TENT TRE. e b believ e this questlion as to the relations between 3. landlord and te2nat is capable of easier solution than e the wvorld appear s resolved to belie.e. v o w n 0 O-pinion is, that if the te zilre cf land generally con- sisted of an awreexlent which securea a four years 3, notice to quit, you would, I Will not say Ithat you L would strike at the root of all disconteit. ...

... A NUR1SE ACCUSED OF SETTING M; HOUSE ON FIRE. i I ~ ~ . I At the Marylebone Police Court, London, Alice Hopknls, 19, a nursemaid, was brought up on remand charged with llaing unlawfully and. maliciously set i fire to the dwelling-house of her master, Mr King, Westbiourne Park. The evidence for the prosecution I was that shortly after five o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd Dec mber Mrs King ...

... THE EXTENSION OF LOCAL SELF- GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND. Mr Painell, in his speech on the Address on Thursday last, is reported to have said :- I believe that the feeling in this country upon the matter, a feeling which I believe to be general, and which un- doubtedly exists, that trusting Ireland might result in danger to the Empire, simply results to a large extent from the want of knowledge ...

... h On Mfonday evening a lecture, Paris as an Historic City, .was -delivered by .Mr Frederic Harrison at the London Institution before a large a audience. Dear Harrison said that of historic cities in Europe in the very first rank he could count but a four-Rome, Constantinople, Paris, and London. } Of all these London had the most complete monu- a mental record, and hadt suffered least from ...

... XBERDEEN ART GALLERPLY. C NYERS A2ON i AT .T 1 E WINTER | EXEIBITION. t t .loe splendid. rooms of the Aberdeen Art i ,.allery and Industrial Museum were last nig ht Wai w ell filled, for the first time since the i-ner E -hihition opened, by a fashionable t / Nbiae. The wealthier Portion of the cow.- ,nitv have Iot hitherto been over profuse in | s p z tronage of the Exhibition, much to the I - ...

... AN ELEGANTT EXTRACT. a I--the UnThited Ireland has a descriptive account of the a ,kopening of Parliament which abounds with expres- the: sMns of a grossly disloyal character. It says :- Tlief the p~lunder of the world glittered in diamonds around 1 ~n the Queen, and the scenle in the.Lords wals a crystal whx 11 mairror in which the fate of many 'murdered nations Itha- .o was 'visible to ...

... THE WEATHER -- - --, FRESH SNOWFALL. Banff was visited on Friday night by a fresh snow a storm, which was most unexpected, soemg that tek sky shortlr before was beautiful clear and studded I with stars. The storm ls;ated for two hours, %nt afterwards the previous bright atnospherie oonadition were renewed. Snow covered the droui4 to thb jdepth -of abct t~vo inches The frost 'Satur..~ 2 day, ...

... Ato-7-R)ThEN TOWN COT7 \ce u _ VL MUNICIPAL DEPARZTMIENT. b The monthly mneetiret of t~he Municipal Depart- tdt cv- nt of Tberd'et± Town Council was held yesterday U o -d T-'rovs Matthewvs 'residing. The other ei -n abers nr. se-, wcre-Bailiaes Walker. Riughorn. i D* ea n 2';-ec, Bc7rry lcan of (Tuid Sangster ,'r .Ser cc: aW er . Mesrs Mearns, Sutherland n lflO'tav. 3laooIaehie, Forbes, nyres: ...