... IMEIL; PIAR IAME Te tot it 14 USE 'OFl COMMOND4S-MQI'DAY. The Speaker, took Ihe chair at 3 pm tWI ie MUMATHESON'S IMPRISONMENqT. w a DrCLARk asked theiiiord-Advooate whether the L a Goernentintndedto ivanycompensation to bill le Mr Hnuli Matheson, who wa unjustly imprisoned fi idin conneetion with the Clashmnere- riots. me 11 The' LORD-ADVOOATE- Tb qestion of the ~ hn, entema asume tht ...

... LOSS OF 2 STEAMERS AND 16 MEN. The Cunard steamer Umbria, which arrived at 'or oQeenstown on Sunday night, brings intelligence of the total loss of the British barque Curlew in the fol Atlantic, with a crew of sixteen hands, while en a 3iz voyage from Pensacola to Glasgow. A Lloyds' K telegratn states that the Fitzmaurice, steamer, of Fi Glasgow, Gibb master, has foundered at sea. The M crew ...

... e In connection with the transference of the Wallace a i sword from Dumbarton Castle to the fNational. I e Wallace Monument,a reception took place in the a e Public Hall, Stirling, on Saturday. Tbe sword o a : hbanded over by oQlnnel Nightingale, Stirling Castle, f d as representing the Commander of the.. Forces- in v North Britain, and was accepted by the Chairman t i. of the Wallace Monument ...

... LIEUTENANT NANSE N'S EXPEDITION.- GISENLAND GtlOSSCD ON SNOW-SHOES. t Cpenhagen, Friday.-A telegram has reached this iley from the captain of the steamer Fox, which has arrived at Tarsund, in Norway, from Green'and. He reports that Lieutenant Nnnsen's expedition, which started to crmss Greenland upon snow shoes, hai successfully accomplished this object, vassiog satelv over the inland ice, and ...

... HIGHLAND BmtII1HAD, ieCiAoiON.-A meetiiss0 of C men Who had served in our Highland regieneats Was ti held in theCafe.Shiprow, Aberdeen, on 9th inst. There F was a large attendance, and Mr Blake presided. It was resolved to form an association open to all wbo had served in the Highland Brigade, and to ask Sir Archibald Allison to become honorary president, and a the colonels commanding at ...

... LITERA'TUTRE. --- twh \\.> SOOtTIS11 SOt.DIIia,: A Soldier of 1688 mo 1 sd Blenheim, a Soldier of the American of evoltio0, and a JLaobite Laird and his che Y r'e.trs. ly Jamles Ferguson. Aberdeen wh 1 llie &v Son, not T: . n 'lior of Robert Ferguson, the tre p s doing good, substantial work in the h'vidis ho is issuino. He savs-' History CA' . ie i;-,walise(l record of the sum of Iluilian e ...

... I THE' ABERDEEN TRAMWAY SYSTEM. (FROM THE ABEBDWI JOURNAL.) r within the last few months co nsiderable .lterations on and extension of the tramway 3 5 stein in Abeoadeen have taken place, and in vieIw of tie near completion of these it ma3y be l int restog to miny to know something of the prcigresi of the ''ramway Company. The com- qany was formed in 1872 with a capital of £18,000, the ...

... The Manchester and Salford School Board alec- t I tions took place on Saturday, and the result of the I pollings was made known last evening. In Man- I chester the seven Church candidates were returned along with four Roman Catholics and four uneec- tarians, being a gain of two seats to the Church i party and a lose of two to the unsectarians. For 5 the Salford School Board sevens Churchimen. ...

... DISTRICT NOTER. (FROM TMg EVRXING ExPIUS8.) di The Peterhead Arbuthuot! Museum Scheme was b b considered by the majority of tbe people in Peterhead b: w to have gone to sleep, never to be heard of again. A si [i year and a half bas now elapsed since theolast meeting h, 1 was held of the promoters of the scheme, and perhaps tc 1. we have beard of it too soon. -d 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; ...

... I GLASGOW BENEVOLBNT SOCIETY, I .- _ . .1 a The annual wetting of the Glasgorw Benevolent *. Society wag held yesterday afternoon in the Beli- a giaus Institution Rooms, Buchantan Street-the | c on. the Lord Provost in the c'hair. Tbera were also present Councillor William Wilson, Mr John 1- r Gour ay (secretary of the society), Rev. Albert a Goodrich, Rev. JoLe Renfrer, Rev. Mr Goodall, s ...

... RELIGIOUS AND THE OLOGICAL, set Scripttre Natural History (Religious ''j. tge Tract Soietye) is a volume on the aninials of the litera AiC Bible, by Henry Chichester Hart, B. w. ho to autisl ho a wide acquaintance with the literature of the ture, nD subject adds the advantage of aleilvthened tour surely rin pursuit of natural histol-y in the Holy Land one of of an d its confines. The ...

... ECCLES1ASTICAL. I LAGW IP. FnP E nr Not). Th Glasgow U.?. Presbytery ~North) met on Tecaadey I 'it the Presbytery Hall, R Vincent Street-Mir ?? ?? odrtor. The Clerk referred r to tedeath of the Rev. J. Griarsonk Scott, emeritus minister of Renfield Street congregation, which 1: atook Place at London on the 231 October, when an Wt is way to San Remo to condluct services there at dloring the ...