... IIPERIAL PARLIAMEtNT. I HOUSE OF COMMONS-SATURDAY. The Speaker took the chair at a quarter past twelve. SUPENANNUATrONS. Mr JENNINGS gave notice for next session td call attention to the system of superannuations and move a resolution. GENERAL ERNROTH', MISSION. Dr TANNER had notice of a question in refer- ence to General Eroroth's mission to Bulgaria, but was not in his place to put it. Sir ...

... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE TRADES COUNCIL AND THE CITY v HOSPITAL. Srin,-Is it not a little inconsistent of Mir Catto a and his Council to turn round and tell us, after siup- i porting the candidature of the convener of the Public q Health Committee for municipal honouirs andsecuring xi his return, that the doctor cannot be expected to take ic his full share of the work of his own committee Z ...

... LATEST LONDON NiEwS. I [FROM OrR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] LoNDoN, Monday night. Mr Henry Labouchere intended to move the adjournment of the House of Commons this' afternoon in order to discuss the suppression of the Ennis meetings. Hle was, however, de- terred from his intention by the inability of his scouts to find 40 supporters, the minimum num- ber without which a motion for the adjourn- ment ...

... SI'RErTr-HIAWKING EXTLA. ORDINARY. ryA story, reflecting shames ont a Christian community, wreven more appalling than that published by the F all trMall Gazette for a sensation and to bring pence, telhas been brought to the notice of the Newcastle Board' of Guardians by the Rev. Cation Franklin, who moved I in the following resolution-.' That it is advisable to! ofform a committee of the ...

... NOR'T'H NEWS. FRASERBURGII-SRIus OF DEPREDATIONS BY Boys.-In the Aberdeen Criminal Court yesterday- Sheriff Brown on the bench-Geo. Roger Ross (13), William Smith Finnie (12), and Archibald MIAllister, all residing in Fraserburgh, were charged (1) with having an the 5th August, in a house or wooden erection calledj aradise Cottage, Hill of Crams, Gight, New Deer, occupied by Robert Ironside, ...

... A scene of a melodramatic character, which took place at the Central Station, Glaagow, on the even- ing of Sunday, the 21st inst., has only just oozed out. It would appear, from facts which we have been able to gather, that some considerable time ago a gentleman in London, a Mr R--, grow- ing tired of his good lady, eloped. leaving a note on the dining-room table, informing her of the fact, ...

... LEAnIDIG CASPs IN MODERN EQUITY: by Thomas Brett, of the Middle Temple, Barrister. at-Law, &c. London: William Clowes & Sons, Limited. 1887. Now that thpre is such a rapprochemeizt be. tween the laws of England and Scotland, and a tendency to assimilate them whenever practi- cable, English case law becomes more and more useful to the Scotch practitioner, and accord, ingly any book which gives ...

... I HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY. 2 a The Speaker took the chair at twenty minutes past twelve o'clock. 1 THE CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES. T1lE IR1I81 SECRETARYS OFFICE. t The House went into Committee of Supply, and u resumed consideration of the vote for the office of Chief-Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr SEXTON did not admit that the speech of the Clhtef-Secretary, on the previous ...

... CLOSE OF EVIDENCE FOR SOUTH UIJST. i; The Crofteis Commission, sitting in South U3ist on Saturday, concluded the hearing of evidence with regard to Stoneybridge, the last township they are to sl deal wit h in the island. Mr Garson again appeared k for Lady Cathcart, and Mr D. C. M6acdonald for the v; crofters. When the Court opened, Mr Macdonald if pointed out that a good deal of kelp had been ...

... I LITEST LONDON NEiWS. I A- - [FRIOM OUR OWN COPRRESPONDENTS.] LONDoN, Sunday night. The Mines Bill passed through Committee yesterday, was reported, read a third time, and I passed-all in a sitting of five hours and fifty- five minutes. This is good for the House of Commons on the 3rd of September, and redeems n one more Government promise. To-morrow t the House will take up the problem of ...

... THE QUESTION AS TQ HYDROPHOBIA. I~~. I (FROM THE ADE:RDEEN EVENING E XPRESS.) Tan labours of M. Pasteur have attracted the attention of the whole civilised world, and the opinions formed regarding his mode of treat- ment in hydrophobic cases are of the most diverse and contradictory character. On the one hand, the famous Frenchman has been described as the most successful of scientists, and ...

... Tthe;kberolt N'011-1aL ABERD1RES, THURSDAY, SEP. 1, 1857. The House of Commons yesterday resumed in Committee of Supply consideration of the so vote for the office of Chief-Seeretary for Ireland, tt Mr Sexton and Mr Dillon being the principal exponents of the Nationalist views. They re- peated the charge formerly preferred against na Mr A. J. Balfour of having violated a pledge e. that the ...