... Ggs-ssocs. - Mr Robert Hamilton, bergb assessor, has just made up the valuation Nro iL the burgh for the year. The total valuatios 1) I £356,457 93, being a decrease of 392'24 1Os as com- pared with the previous year. KR-IcuDsBIGnT.-Tbe county valuation rdeM for the. stewartry this year shows a ?? flirs last year of £120.512s 3d, the total returns baeing- I For 1887 88, £340,679 13s Zd; ior ...

... WISTHER REPORT AND FORECASTS. 'MIIOTOLOGIOAL OFmCB. LONDON,; Sunday. September 2. Mfnee Friday might a complete change has come ever the weather throughout our islands, the anti- cyclocic system, which at that time had Spread ever the whole of cur islands from the mouth-west. ward and soathward, bringing with it fine bright dry weather and light winds, began to give way decidedly in Scotland ...

... THE COURxT. s T Qsborse, Wednesday. win Their Royal Hightessels the Prince and Princess as ( of \Ysleo, with ti~e Princesses Louise, Victoria, tile and ML~auci of WVales, visited the Queen yesterday. tidi His Royal Highiness the Hereditary Grand fluke has and Princess Alil of Hesse, attended by Mcillie. C. IruA. Vabries and Baron Grancy, arrived at On; Osbjiorae, arid were mnet by their Royal ...

... Loci- I ?? 9shing season on Loch Fivdlas closed isome das ago, %nd anglers who were unaware of the dose as time for the loch were inuch disippointed at notgettiogon to it till the close of September. It has fished remarkably weil : Messrs Xennedy an'd Houldsworth were on Loch Doon fromn .t 12 till a little after 1 o'clock, and killed four dozen and two a trov-t. An angler on the River Deow ...

... The great annual sales of rams in ?? tith ?? Ram Society were comnmenced, Yesterday in the socity'd tield at Coltbridge, Edin- i t burgh. The arrangement of rinxs, pens, &c, was I tesame as in former years, and the secretary, Ar! ...

... WEAT-ER REPORT AND FORECA STI ( 3METEOROLOGICAL OFrICEl LONDON, I Wednesday, September 5. -Barometrical pressore remains highest over Ger- rmany, but high over Franoe, the Bay of Biscay, and the north of Spain. The second high-presirO ; area noticed n'o Tuesday over the north of Scan- dinavia bha, bowever, been replaced by a largearea of low readings, and a smal shallow disturbances have ...

... MUNICIP AI. 32EETP'LY S. d f 254 .-This Coltcii heid tire monthly moetirq ea on £Msnday evening in tie Burgh Cirmbeis, 9Provost Drunrrnorod preideo, asd there was a furi i attendannec. Tue Finan-e Committee reworted the s expenditure durnig tile incrrta or July to L' £41 15s. 2d, and tn- s'rssrnemets coliected during the same veriod -1 94 Jh 9 ?. i tie 0ocrce ?? cduring July amounted t'r £2 2 ...

... ECCLESIASTICAL GLASGOW ESTABLISHED PRESBYTB!RY g The maonthly meeting of the Presbytery of Gias- ' gow was held yesterday-Rev. Thomas Somerville r moderator. i b Wntcosta TO DB MABSA LAING. ti The MODEI1ATOSL, before entering on the business, ti in name of the Presbytery, welcomed Dr barehall i ,Lani on his return from Austraia . .DrMBLL LANG returned thanks for e t welcome, he had. received, ...

... O 2 'LONDON COXRESPONDENCE, 65 FLEET STRXET, Thursday Night. Ramours are once more afloat as to impending changes in the Cabinet. The dull season is usually enlivened by speculative gossip of this' sort, but if the changes which are now suggested are to be made at all they Ewill probably not be made for some weeks to come-until, in point of; fact, Parliament is about to meet again. It is said ...

... THE LONDON RAILWAY MYSTIRY, IMPORTANT APPRE:H.ENSION AT HAMILTON. AD apprehension was made at Hamilton yes- J terday, which is believed to have an important bearing on the death of John Kings a man belonging to Rutherglen, whose bodywasi found an the Midland tajiway near London on the I morning of Wednesday week. Thq occurrence o was seen at the outset to be involved in , mnystery,'bnt'inquiry ...

... THE DEFECOE OF BELA.ST LOUGH. - Ii At a mecting of the Belfast Harbour Cemmid- sioners ?? Jas. P. Corry, Bart., M§P., r presiding-another discussion took place regarding f the defences of Belfast Laugh. Sir J. P. Carry i said he had brounlht the matter frequently before the Secretary of State for WVar, and he confessed that be thought it a far more effective way to get anything done, as a rule ...

... THURSDAY MORNIING, AUGUST 23, The Queen has written to the Countess of Stafford expressing to the Ioen of Great 3 Britain and Ireland and of the Colonies Her E Majesty's warmest and most heartfelt thanks for their very handsome present in recollection of her jubilee. I shall, adds the Queen, wear with pride and pleasure the beautiful necklace and earrings which they have sent rue as a. ...