... GOODS SH1PPED COASTWISE AT ABERDEEN fit the Week ending on Monday last. 96 Cattle. 3583 Boals Oatmeal. P 2 Sheep. -Barrels l Codfish and 2 D 196 Pigs. -Half.barrelsj Haddocks. 7 Barrels Por - k B arrels a 6 Half-barrels f - Half-barrels Herrings. 3 l; Boxes Eggs. 18 Boxes e i, ih Cwts, Butter. - Boxes Salmon. 3 2263 Qrs. Oats. - lalf-boxes do. . 103 Qrs. Bere and Barley. d r THE number of ...

... ITHE POWER AND SVEED OF FLIGHT IN| BIRDS. I There is nothing more wonderful in nature than bt the power of flight possessed bV birds, and no subject ot which yields more startling facts upon investigation. cV The way of an eagle in the air is one of those al things of which Solomron expressed himeelf ignorant ;bi and there is something truly marvellous in the ru mechanism which controls the ...

... 1 The Free Church Presbytery met yesterday in the ball of the Free Church College, Aberdeen-Pro- feasor Robertson moderator. at . rTHi FERRYHILL VACANCY, no The Clerk (Mr Semple) intimated that the call at from the Ferryhill congregation to Mr Thqruas B. . Kilpatrick, Burntisland, had been signed by 357 n members and 137 adherents, or a total of 494. Mr Id Temple and Mr A. Murray Scott were ...

... MR ARNOLD MORLEY AND MR BEAU-MONT, MH.P. The Press Association has received the followving |commun1ication from Mr Arnold Morley, chief Liberal whip:- Sir-There are certain statements in a letter which Dr Henry Beaunont, Iv.P, has addressed to the newspapers relating to the interview and corre- spondence which took place between us in the months of August and September, ISS6, whicb, I regret ...

... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL BIAJLS. DESI'.ATCq 01!' NF.XT MeiLi. NTcT DesTINATVONs. Imom LONDON MITlAIL 1)1 U Ascension i.~aPlyvmouth ..e. '2 I Jan, IJ Australia, viz.: Victoria, New South WVales, Queensland, South Australia and Tao- mania, via Brindisi . Jan. , E Tan. 1I Western Australia viaBrindisi.Jan, 6I 1 an. 1 Australia (Parcels Mail) ..Jan. 5 M Ji ja.- Permudas..via ...

... The School Board of Olddmachar met yesterday in the office of the clerk, Mr Hugh M'Lennan, advocate, 71 King Street, Aberdeen. Mr Bothwell presided, and before proceeding to the business wished the members a happv new year. THE Sia JoiNr ANDERSON Pi1zmE.-Mr Reid, referring to the award of these prizes, said he had noticed a corre- spondence in the newsrpapers which reflectedsomewhat on ...

... G-ENERAL FOREiGN NEWS T['HE FIGHTING 1N WEST AFRICA, I (R(etrER'S TeT.FaRA.) Sierra Leone, Deeombber 1'.- . H.IIS. Icarus l aa arrivei here j viih troops eplodoye in t ho - expedition to thleY Ynnue country. The force Captured the thrre , principal townis, aid killed q large nunbers of tholiyo'eniy The war is now believed to be 'ver. It is stated hero that kina J.a 1l ls ln oe o ollered the ...

... AEV1E1hr7N, THURSDAY, JAN. \, 1S S A severe s-orm has prevailed since Tuestay ini various parts of the United Kingdom, but tfn) the vest coast of I-eland. wheremucr dainage has besen done to shippinnt. M1any t vessels ihave been driven ashore, and theme has a been a serious loss of life. On Tuesday night a lar-e f ull-rigged Anericanship stranded in^Vater- ford Harbour. Attempts were toads to ...

... TPIAL FOR CHARMING AT BIE H lVIE. The klirk-session records of the old country parishes m furnish particulars of many curious trials and investi- nr gatious made by the ministers and elders. The fol- lowing extracts are token from the records of Belhel'ie:- T 2tA) Septernber, 1 7r,. - Compeared Isabell R Pavidson, from the parish of ]Dear summoned to tl | this dyet, and beionr enquired if ...

... LONDON RADTCALS AND THE IPISH ' PRISONERS. The Press Association is authorised toestate that thit Executive Committee of the London Liberal and Radical nmon has been considering the best means of according, a public reception to Mr William t O'Brien, AL.P., and the Lord Mayor of Dublin on s their arrival in London for the opening of Psrliament £ after their release from Tullamore Goal. In this ...

... THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE PRIZE RiNG. O A OErcTAL FROX! SAI'4oR H at.GESM. The Press Association states that a telegram was yesterday afternoon despatched to Sandringhamt where the Prince of Wales is at preseut staying. in- quiring if there was any truth w hatever in the state- .ment recently published 'that His B oyal Highness Was a member vf the committee engased in organis- Isiug a public ...

... DYCE - POACHING AT PARrsItLM.-Alexander Skinner or Henderson, labourer, was convicted yesterday, before Sheriff Brown, with poach- ing on the farm of Cranbog, Parkhill, on 27th December, and was fined 17s, with £1 6He 6d of expenses, or be imprisoned for is week. GRANTOWN-'BREroA Or TrlE P1'Aiix-In the 'lvin Sheriff Court, yesterday, William Flood, lebourer,,Grantowfn,'pled.Cuilty to having ...