... 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 ...

... ' ATTACK ON THE RED FLAG BY GENDARMES. - - EXTENSION OF THE STRIKE MdYEMENT. ?? PFROM OUR SPECIAL CORRWONDSNT.) Paris, August 8, 5.45 aer. . .4 ia funeral of the oommunist 5 General Eudes was to-day rmde the occasion of a- most imposing Revolutionary manifestation which led to blood being spilt pretty freely, though I have not heard that anyone was actually killed. As early as seven o'clock ...

... JiBRITISH MEDICAL .-ASSOCIATION PROGRESS OF THE GLASGOW MEETING. -Tbe memberS of the British Medical Associa. fon were mnore fortate yesterday in the matter if weather. It was not by any means a typical August day, but the persistent rain of Tlesday was not repeated. In the forenoon the eun phone, and throughout the day it was fair, if tot exactly bright. The sectional meetinas were entered ...

... -.oJJtole, and not eater than 6 pe.m FRIIDAY MORNING, AUGUST S. In the Iiouse of Lords yesterday, in answer f io Lord Granville, Lord Knutsford read a tole-v - . . y. . . . gram from Sir Arthur Havelock cofirminag the reports in the newspapers as to the improved bi condition of Zululand, and adding that there were hopes Dinizulu himself might sarrender, E On the motion to consider the Commons ...

... II. LETTERS, TO THE , EDITOR. a' [. 1 p] phot' PRESSURELON.,OUR INFIRMIARIES. ne i, ?? a leasder of some days ago you indicate,' quire or ineaiae, that some explainfition is needed for the conri loinger dstention of patienits, in4,tbe Royal and aseTM 3uWestern Infirmaries than in' U1 other hospitals coons 0.cited, Of the the 11 only four -are at all compar- roopS as abs with our two large ...

... The centenary of the Northern Meeting, which Al is not only the oldest bat the greatest gathering G- of the kind in Scotland, is being celebrated this if week at Inverness in a manner befitting the hs character and history of the institution. Under its modern canstitutiou the meeting ha is much associated with the bagpipes and the Hi kit, but it is remarkable that when it was eo instituted in ...

... 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 ...

... 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! ...

... POLITICM AFFAIRS. UR HALDTE-A,,3%. T PERESTONPANS. S : r 1&~ -H.ldsnm, M.P der~ddigtuaa , ad- t' dressed a meetingvoL his constitbast night in, n the Free -hurch -Xll, Prr5tonpal.; AU Thomas r 3lerrylees, i blacknith, presided-ovaer-s good I -attentdane. M ,Haldaw said-this maa the first I rcccasioeia'which hie~adaddresiehlsconstitueaxts :einces-Bsrlitesat'rose. He'wedwulddeal with.the g ...

... 'MR G )STON T- AT WREXJHAM.. ..S THE CJMS OF 1 RELND | AND WALES. SPEECH AT THE WELSH EIS&TIE FQt :r ?? ?? ?? Mr Gladstone paid his long promisi.edhviitto Wrexbm yosterday,aaddeliveredapojitioal upeoeh z in respons to an atdrespresented to hip by tte . local Liberal Association. The right boa. gete f mpan spent the earlier portion of the liornig in b opening the new railway which is being ...

... 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 ...

... BIB GLADSTONE AND MR FORSTER. Mr T. Wemyss Reid, the author of the reced Life of Forster, has an article in the Octobe; number of the Yineeflenh Cenistry entitled MI Forster ancl His Colleagues. In this MIr Reid replies to the criticism on the Life wbich Mt a Gladstone contributed to the September numbef of the same maeazine and the reply wil' be read with the deepest interest by all ...