... SMAC= O i- : I SEA. I$AIAI-, i(os'r IN THE 9C0111l11 SEA.t RESCUE OF THE CREW. The London and Edinburgh Shipping Co.'s steamer Starley Hall, which arrived at Leith on Wednem-140 day from Charente, bad on board the crew-two men Li and a boy-of the trading smack Sea Drift, of Scar- pri borough, which is reported to have foundered about riu six miles off Whitby early on Tuesday morning. na The ...

... ILE FRENCH EXHiIBITION OF 1889. ! theI bove Al. Berger has (says Calixnaui) delivered an inter- rday esting lecture at the rooms of the Societe de tball Geographie, Boulevard St Germain, on the Universad I im- Exhibition of 1889. As our readers are aware, he t 39, is one of the three directors 9f the Exhibition, and at a was formerly a collalorateur of Al. Leplay, whose 3a'es plans for the ...

... LORD TENIN'YSOIN'S RET1O'SPECT. CRITICISM BY MR GLADSTONE, |We havebeen favoured by Meusrs Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. with a copy of an article which will Sti ;'appear in the forthcoming number of the Ninc- da: teenth Century written by Mr Gladstone, and en-ba titled Looksloy Hall and the Jubilee. In it the six' 'right hoal. gentleman deals with Lord Tennyson's re- Th, trospeot of the ...

... -~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~ ~~~ - . i , , ' : - -,- S I.z * . '' , fSlQIhI N gORT.q - ! r POSTVON3MET )F ANCI~~I{ESTER I n conseqlieige ~ofens fog the Manchester meet ing has been postponed for a week. * ,'.: J3' LL. VICTPiIIA FRAtEH8UBCH.The Victoria 13coft 'ball Ch1b wi11 leave Aberdeen to:day (Nev Year's day) -y the 1210 train for Fraserburgh, with tbe: following' team :-Back, J. Anderson ; half. | ...

... HADDO HOUSH OLUB.-The following friendly matches were played on the Haddo House pond on Monday viz., Smith, 13 ;. Marr, 8 ; Marr, 11; Smith, 9. ELr.oN.-Friendly matches were played on the Ellon pond on Mondaq, viz.a-Cowie, 7 points. v. Milne, 9 points ; and Milne, 27, v. Low, 13. It has been arranged to play for the Caledonian Club die- trict medal between three rinks each from Dyce and ...

... IHE BREEDING ANID MANAGEMENT' (OP POULThY DOGS, &a PLYMOUThi ROCKS. It has been found that of late years the inventive. genias of American poultry farmers has been n largely displayed in the ziauuftcture of new breeds of ti domestic poultry, each.of which is declared by its t admirers to be the very best all-round fowl yet intro- duoed-the best layers, the biggest birds, and the best 7 on the ...

... L Ut;, JM-Vl -~'A LIBERAL UNIONIST ASSOCIATION OF :-. :,- ABERDEEN. . 4 * _ I . The' Interim, Committee recently. appointed have nov. adjusted the -constitution, which is inthe futf loviing terms . Constitution of the Liberal Unionist Association. 1. Thei association shall be called the Liberar Unionist'Aesociation of Aberdeen. 3 .2. The'object of the association is to preserve the Union of ...

... THE ALLEGED .MISAPPLICATION Or, I FUNDS :AT THEEVWA OFFIQE.. I - .- I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~,, The Press Association has received the following 1 official communication with reference to a letter 3 whichappeared in the Times of Tuesday, signe4 by Mr H. Burdett, in which it was stated that some hundreds of thousands of pounds had been voted for . guns for the navy, and spent. by the War ...

... The snowstorm of Sonday night (says , p agency) is the most severe that lids been W.nessed in the Metropolis for many years past, he fall bas B been computed at fourteen inches. ,Out the drifts in o many plnces are fully siX feet. On Monday traffic Mwas al most at a standstill. 'F'forts are being made to clear away the snow, bo', with little result so far. - Thedamnage caused by '.no high wind ...

... hits it. -The second annual assembly of the d National Independent Order of Odrlfellows Excelsior t ILodge, No. 10'~0, was hold iii the Mliire Hall, Shona, be 'on Fridi'y evcninizn wlhoi altout 70 catuplh a~soaiiled a to have a lance to the ,itraiis, (it the Krnelhir tRitig1o PR Iband. hiriohpies Chli itil, and )~outiLf ad.t1 RI' M-C. ti in a mn-t oniluiciet marnner 'Uhi' companyil sii ent A ...

... - . - ; - t-l-: ' - s sL- .T; IXX'DR'AO 1DINA1RY N 7N 7T77 1 NEW Y ORK shoes EXHANO I . . ; ..E ; * \ 4 US 'rhoe' Newv York Times of December 16 uys:- ;1 .one hoaur.yesterd&y market values in Wall and, Stree shrunk 10,000,000 dolIa The 83toik 1tchange pea- was tHe steno of much a battle s has never been lOg fought - there before without precipitating p'aul and ifall widespread disaster. ...

... - ?I- ------ .. .. . - , , , .,- - -w -, I I i . . . w l - uum -.95. RiArA7.44. In onlo a e The Mps~rl B3anc tupqel soh99Ta, has 'dgped out of e sight, for the time a leastt, b the St Bernard and o the Simplon still hold'their ground. In fact, up to a e short time ago the Simplon might be said to have Ibad ,herurnnivgql to itself, ai'd a, ynpqiqstv of fin ar auciers was?. ...