... ARB E CITY BLELECTIONS& irL I .- ' .e,, i - NXPESES Or CNDZD S -The election expenses of t.,he %ndi&teS for th rd North and South Divisi2q of Aberdeen have n td lodged with the Sheriff-Clerk. These are as ye.t in- P' complete, the statement of -eenses iburred 24 Ld J. Wallace Thomr not baVing been lodged. A According to law, such omission is punishable r by fine. We b uderstand, however, that ...

... THE IOM- RUtIJ Qtt sTIN7. SIR CEAIFLES D1LIS O T-= IRISH f NATIONAL COVflIL.. Sir Charles Diike, speaking, At Rugby last nightf dwelt upon the importance of constituting a thoronah I system of local _Rovernuien. in Englandl Scotlan, i ' I Ireland, and Wales. He thought that er Trovelas I C |views pointed to the adoption for Ireland of that - system which was recently put forward in the 1z-f- ...

... _ I ABERDEEN, FRIDAY, JAAN, 1, SS6.- -- l Br'utkR, or that portion of it formerly yield- I irng allegiance to King Theebaw, has been an- I .nexed to the British Crown. A proclamation I e 2ias. been issued by Lord DTfferiu, by command e ¢^ thel Queen, that the territories formerly v toverned by King Tleebaw will no longer be r ender his rule, but have become part of Her 4-Tahesty's dominions, ...

... 1 8 856 s AyzomrE year is joining the lapse of ages i one z and, before its departing k;nell is f the journalist mu.Lsti. ake a retrospective ;ai e-v'eiits which will hereafter belong to 1 the pagres of history. 1885 has been a menmor- I 1 able year ; but not a 1hapi)Py one. There have e been wars, and worse than wars. Heroic lives 5 have been sacrificed, and the honour of the d country has ...

... THE BASTERN CRISIS. T E TE CZAR AND P yNC;p ALExANDER. e [FRO 0 B 0 WS CoRBEXSONDENT.] St Petersibarg (zvia Gumbinnen), Wednesday. . 7-It is now considered certain that the recon- ci iation previouisly reported as having been arrived at between Russia and Bulgaria will 1L shortly be announced in an ofciae manner. The R-s~iap Agent in Bulgariais accused in ' , some quarters of having sowed ...

... L In his article in the January number of thef I Nineteenth Century ( Proem to Genesis, a reply to IProfessor Huxley's interpolation in his dispute with |Professor Reville) Mr Giadstone says :- The exal. ;tation of religion as against theology is at the present; 3 day not only so fashionable, but usually so domineer-, ing and contemptuous, that I am grateful to Professai iHuxlev for his ...

... ,:: M r - wontsbeen. Ti- -Acm with the~ usual5 r-15 ousand hnpPPy greetags. :n thea mindso S~chinmena Hog~flsy is s,;3ociated with many of the * lres eollctions, and festivity7 alwayrs marks Ezcfs!~zI it isthe sehs ehp -ore than .nv the- -, whn pi;4lit.. and kidly :t zPre-I s-ax1. and whlen therei the nearest cp-ar. t. the? reahsaclc6n of Burns' grLand sniet nto man th ato'er shall britherd ...

... 'E W 7AT -- TEEP WEASTIMER. BAF.-The rain, which fell on Wednsda veryceay sowes, nnd. by~ morningl Othet oa Iquantifty of the snow--, -which lay in b1davy Qacemuinlk- tionz. hadda aed, The reads! rad streets inl consequaence were rendered most ?? fore Pedestrianism. The ?? rinvd rive-rs wer ral swollen by the raipid thaw-,, and the ou~rrenrt in maany In-tanees over-flowed their banb~ an-d ...

... Yk YEAR'S TRADE INATHE NORTH. -IS __ ABERDEEN. In taking a retrospective view of the leading I trades and industries in Aberdeen for the year just closed, facts present themselves in every uirection that are not of a very cheering char- ' acter. lhe 'fact whicn stands out most pro- C trimently is zhat the prices for the raw and rnanIMutactured niaterials have been run down 3lxost to the lowest ...

... -THlE BATTLE OF AtT-KLEA. ~. I L tI46tftaute6.6oldel talbbt has the folo*hing iiter- L a etigg artile6in the Nistetemth. Ceentur-y for Jalaury h: on the battle of AbW-Kleat- . . hi Xuih has been *ritten about the last Souidan re campaign, and I should not have added one line had P3 not some misapprehension been created as to many of ot its incidents, especially as to the part taken by thef ...

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... AGRICUTWRAL RVTEW. - . - - . - ,~.. . - [Fxrc | SPECw 09C W Po=s-]NTI - IThe meteoroqlgiqal CQiditiofli 91t past *,4 have! been of 'a somewhat extraordinary character. 0O of NonAay and Tuesday evenligs the sky towards the west presented a gene, of extraordinary beauty. It o Was magnificent indeed beyond anything I ever, a4i remember to have witnessed. High up above the le lower strata of ...