... ABERDSEEN HARBOUR NOTES. tlFor smer consideraWe time past the shifping trade at Aberdeen has-been progressing very rapidly. During the last two months--fromt the middle of To July to the present zi me -`the doc'ks have been filled R with vessels, the cargoes and tontia~ge-of which have J greatly i~icreased the revenue of the harbour, and also provided work to a large umitber of tho labouringth ...

... - rnaer the title of Dorothy, a now comedy- opezr was produced at the Gaety Theatre on Saturday eveuinu-the book written by Mr. B. C. Stephepson, themusic composed by Mr. Alfred Opiher. The plot a is neitlwarqlaborate nor original, and in the second act C c somewhat overetrained, but the framework serves well I for musical gects. T4ae ation is'supposed to take place k in Kent in the autumn ...

... WrE hail this book with pleasure-a small work, it is true, bit one brimful of incident, anecdote, and personal record. Such writing as this gives the greatest delight to a real sportsman, as it teaches from practice, and is another addition to the smnall band of shooting enthusiasts who are, fortunately for the public, able to wield a pen as well as a gun or rifle, and so capable of ...

... AMIONG the social problems of the nineteenth century the tramp has ,always beld an important position, but his appearance among the nine- ;teenthcentury poets is extremely remarkable. Not that the tramp's bode of life is at all unsuited to the development of. the poetic faculty. Far from it ! He if any one should possess that freedom of mood which 'is so essential to the artist, for he has no ...

... THE DEMOCRATIC SHOW; OR, i THE WORLD WE LIVE IN-. - Where is the earthly usr of a landlord, as a landlord ?-of a profitmonger, as a prolittnonser ? They exist only for the impoverishment, corruption, enslavement, asid destructioes of ?? human race. Tlho history of oer race iI little csetleti:os a harrowing record of their warS, plots, conspiracies, ilvit- sions, naassoreso, fancince, ...

... Md TEAu ..Jfswreades of ?? Thotmand and, One i blghta t.will remenimbers it WV certain Qutw I bharact~tios 'of the' a6*e qf Sinbad bicbki I Firine1' 1e poor rte to eievythe fate of its' triniX~~~S pdtr oit xuy be that lihe es 8 iter~aI t of.*rur Lne Te stre, with its i ~iightly wanig, Standing room only,' is juqt f owinducuing some ill-inforumed passers-by to WiS1 hatt ad been ther lot to ...

... ETHIdS AND THE DRtAMA Professor Blackie has repeatedly defied the conventions, and in no respect has he done so more conspicuously than in respect of the drama. Again and again he has championed a play in language of no measured eulogy, and nearly always at the cost of the pulpit and its sermons. It would be ungracious to say that this ardour has been at any time prompted by a desire for the ...

... TH LAWYER, EDITED BY A BARRISTER AT LAW. XXXIX. EXECUTORS. Under the Bankruntoy Act, 1883, a-y creditor of a deceased debtor whose debt would have been suffi- cient to support a bankruptcy petition against such debtor, had he been alive, may present to the Court of Bankruptcy a petition in the prescribed form praying for an order for the administration of the estate of the decessed debtor, ...

... -Ti web of the Consular literature is of a mingled yarn, good and M together, and there is a dark shade i running through the pattern of the Reports that 3 have lately come in from Turkey and Greece. I The trade with the Levant, according to Consul b MEPLLf, is passing out of our hands. F or . one English commercial traveller in the i 1t Levant there are twenty Germans and LAn hmsnch IaU ...

... (PROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.) The recent performances held in the ruins of the Roman theatre at Orange, which, by all accounts, proved singularly interesting, suggested to my curiosity the idea of investigating the appliances which the ancients brought to bear on scenic illustration in build- ings of such a size that they could contain ten or fifteen thousand spectators. This research ...

... LITERAT IU-LE SOCIAL AcRROWS.* d Brabaonll has proved himself a very Lord vrcid reformer, desirous above of helping the humblest workers, ltil D tillen the mrisery which exists in great cities Hge has allied himself with movtementss like that for the utilisa- sa sdnisuse'1 graveyards and other open tion w n~hich tend to bri ghten the lot of the acrst Id is keenlyl alive to the necessity ?? ...

... AG-RICULTURAL SI-ow. NO:RTHALLERTON. The Northallerton Agricultural Society yester. day hold their nineteenth exhibition. There was a larte attendauce, iut the bleak cliaracter of the weather tended slightly to mar the enjoy. ment of the visitors. The advisability of holdin g the show a little earlier in the season is at ques- tion which might be j detifiably disunqsed by the members of th6 ...