... -OUR LONDON CORRESPONDEENOtX - 65 FLnEET ST'rZaT, MIonday Night. &th2 Houses of Parliament had a short sitting to-day, and adjourned to fTuesday, 6th November. The only business in the Upper £ Chamber was the reading of the Royal CoG.- I mission by which Her Maj'aty gave her assent I to the Local Government Bill, the Members of Parliament (Charges and Allegations) Bill, and; several other ...

... IMIPRSONMEBT OF MR JOHN DILLO.ONo |, DEMZKSfTASIOV I DUNDZE. A demonstration to protest against the imprison- ment of Mr John Dillon, H.P., took ploce in Dundee en Saturday afternoon. The woather was cold and raw, but between 5000 end 6000 persons assembled on the MKagdalen Green, where the meeting was held. Mr John Robertson of Ellmslea, the president of the Dundee Liberal Association, ...

... FISuERY STATISTICS. Ady The following statementi of the total quantity and ,,us of eea'fleh landed on the coasts of Scot- owl land during July, 1683, has been issued by the' t Fishery Board for Scotland the ed, S ie o 9 usg §1 P e- I -[ -4- [Il lii ll il 'Cs.a ad7 ab -X - ,be O 4'1 4 t11 s~u si|1 t t 4|| 1 5 ?? Cf 2852 .5 - .- atII 1e -| ...

... MNNICIPAL AMEETINWS. r- t HA.&ICK.-At the monthly meeting of Hawtick r Town Council the police assessments for the - ensuing year were fixed at 3s 2]d per £1, being r the eamr ever all as last year. It was agreed to e ask the burgh and county members of Parliament - to do their uctmost to get the Police and Health n Bill passed this session. It was reported that the ., death-rate Of Hawick ...

... SATURDAY MORNG, AUGUST 11, ,lI the House of Lords yesterday the Royal I assert was given by Commission to eleven bills, I including the Life-Saviag Appliances Bill, the c Railway and Canal Traffic BiU, and the Glasgow v Central Railway Bill. The Bail (Scotland) Bill t was read a second time. Lord Salisbury moved the second reading of the Parnell Commission | Bill, and in giving the history and ...

... x'URNITURE A*ND DECORATION-No. II. The second court set apart for the display of exhibits under the title 'Furniture and Decoration is somewhat larger than the first. .1 It does not, however, present greater variety a than the one already described. Indeed, sot far as some of the principal firms represented h are concerned, there is alm;sost a tedious sameness P in the style of goods placed ...

... : ,* C1LTE S - . . bTHE JOHN ELDER STATUE. Glasgow, August 8, 1SS9. Sa,--The inscription plates on the pedestal of: this fine statue, to my eye, appear very bare. £ a would suggest to the committee that a little erna- ! | mektal carving bh cut ion the plates about the in- r scriptions. As to ths inscriptions themselves, it i c took ase all my time to ?? out the wording, andI I think that the ...

... HIOME RIULE DEAMONSTRATION AT JUOHNSTONE. Last night Jobnstone Town Hall was crowded ?? to hear a political address, under the auspices of the c William O'Brien Branch of the National League, G by Mr Thomas Grattan Esmonde, M.P., but that gentleman sent a telegram intimating his inability P to be present, as he had to go to Ireland, but iu his stead Mr Deasy, M.P., came forward. ,Mr .. F. ...

... AGErULTUR.. IsiveaNess C,&TTm S~ost-The anna! eaxhibi- tions of stock, sunder the auespices of the Inienieas' Farmers' Society. was held yestarday in the Northern Meeting.Park. The weather wasfavour- able, and the Thow was in every respect a1 suflS5 The anthber of entries was 69 in nexcess of that Of last year, while the quality could scarcely be ox. Icelled. Tl'he leading featore of the show ...

... I B R. W. CocamkyIAaP. No. VII.-TRADE AND COMMERCE. I { (Continrued fi-om 28th JuZy, 2888.) The sixteenth century develops a considerable increase in the foreign trade of Scotland; and we have now the guidance and assistance of the very valnable Records of the Convention of i Royal Bnrghs. The first year of the century it was ordered by the Provost of Edinburgh that nobody except a burgess ...

... MUNNICIP.AL 21BETINGS. d BnzcmsN.-At the monthly zmeeting of Brec'oit e Town Council on WVednesday evening, the reccra. meudation by a special committee nor to remove r the petty custows levied on potato merchants e hawking with lorries and carts vers adopted, and it was also remitted to a committee to consider t-e w-hole question of petty cuasoms, with a vxew to the exacting or equitable ...

... OUR LOIN~DOGT! ,iI} lI ursday NLight. in the House of Lords to.night. the Lord. Ctancellor read a letter from the German Am. bassador expressing the thanks of the German nation to their Lordships for the special reso- hn 'iou of condolence passed on the occasion ef tfe death of the late Emperor Frederick. bseveral bills were brought up from the Commons and read a first time, and among them ...