... DECISION OF THE GOVENIMENT. EtU li ~ ?? _ at The followie: letter has been received by Sir pIG James King, Lord Provost of Glastew:- for . My.I~ed Foreign Office, 2d May, 1889. Sal c 1 My.Y Td Provosti,- ,teMruso I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to inform you that Her Majesty's Government have given careful consideration Vf I to the proposal which was submitted to them Bn ,by ...

... THE CROFTERS COMMISSION RiN SKYE. LORD MACDONALD'S ESTATES. One dision of the Crofters Commission, pro- sided over by SherifF Brand, held a sitting yester- day, and concluded consideration of fair-rant applications from Lord Macdonald's estates. The one remaining township to be considered being situated in rather an isolated position on the vwest aide of Sleat, the Commissioners drove over ...

... THE LORD HIGH COMMISSION= Last night the Lord Provost and Magistrates Of Edinburgh attended at Holyrood for the usual ceremeny of presenting the keys of the city to the Lord High Commissioner. There were present Lord Provost Boyd, Bailies Roberts, Walcot, E Turabull, and M'Douald; Treasurer Clappsrton. W Mr Adame, city chamberlain; and Mr Skinner, au town-clerk. They were received in the ...

... -=-Fe THE UN1IONIST COMPACT AT BIRMINGHAM. - rte' MSl OHAMBERtIAiiF ELYT 08 ild, RIANDOLPH CRU~tCHiLL. mot -of hogl Ms Chamberlain has replied to the letter of Lord ,ga ,t 1%6dolph Chrhl ihreference to the Unionist iPC act 'opact in Central Birmingham in the followings 3o;'terms:- ; Highbbnt Moor Green, Biirininghaml, in get ~~~April 23, 1889. St has My IOOr Cburchill.-I have read4 with great ...

... THE TONNAGE BILL I - jU EMORIAL TO THE ? RESMENT OF TEE BOARD OF TRADE The following memorial from the undersigeed shipowners of the Vnited Kingdom bas been presented to the President of the Board of Trade:- That your memorialista are owners of a very large amount of tonnage of shipping plying between i the United Kingdom and :foreigo countries, and to and from ports ia the United Kingdom, and ...

... DISTINGUISHED BRAVERY AT SBA. i a.I flESENTATION GP MEDAL. tim11 Yesterday afternoon a meeting was held in flit not office of Messrs Thou. Dumnlp St Song, 70 Welling- I ton Street, Glasgow, Lloyd's agen1ts, for the pur- laos pose of presenting- a bronze medal awarded by and~ Lloyd's Committee to Donald Macdonald, the Po- mate of the ship Henry James, of Glasgow, for his r exertions to rescue ...

... (I S )EL.VISIT TO {MNrx32 T EL50.y -. d (sf~~tiP~~nn Berlin, May Vq di p Wriog hit D in this capital the Kiag of his g will 5 ?? apartn5ta in th , P ;i a5 .I f old palace ;Varlooling the ;-.s 6 Thee rT o ,s hrbich are Pener Ely ?? tell. - are fugaished a is Louis tO ,i., '5tot ?? Will nset be tin'efist ?O ,oe sppreachp a to t rteirs s cpial ci ., g . 1867 ad agais in 1872 at tle O 5e %J ote ...

... DIR CHAMIBELAIN ON HOMEs RULE. A-r Chamberlain left Rossendale for London at roon yesterday, having been the guest of Mr Thomas Brooks at Crawshav Hall. During his stay in Lawtenstall, Mr Chamberlain was pre- sested with an address at the Liberal Unionist Club. Mr C'RsAMEa.LLIV, in reply, Eaid-Ther. is nothing democratic in the scheme for Houle !onle submitted by our oppoients. They tell you ...

... EDINBURGH SUTHIERLANP ASSOCIATION. -1s ?? . a .1 I I . -. -- t The Edinburgh Sutherland Association held d their twenty-fourth aunual festival last night v f within the ?? Hall. Mr Donald Mlaclteod, v ?? presided over a large gathering. The chair- t monn in the course of his address Said that those t who thought the Crofters Act iveolvel t the land question must have been grier- o ou31y ...

... - MrnEOxOLOGIcAT Osrwx, LO ON, As Friday, January 1L The depressions off the north-west of Irelad and ;the sooth-west of Englaad appear to be spreading i over the kingdom in an easterly direction, while ) . do I another disturbance is advancing over the Bay of Mi Biscay. A considerable increase of wind from the J. south-eastward is preoable in all the more nerthern N' and eastern parts of our ...

... \ ;TSRS TO TE EDITOR. \gX'V0L'UV0 IN VENEZUELA. 48 West George Street, Glasgow, 22d Jurn, 18S9. 'r attOntiOO has been drawn to a par&. -oadec above headliugia your issue of date. Rja Paub was P 01tao titutioualy: President of the United States of Vene-. e :alY, i8SS. I have no information as to !: eeCCY of the other ststments you publish.- i r W. C. MACiAGH'Z&N, Oonsnl. BAEUDAUDIE AND THE ...

... THE BOULANGIST PROSECU- TION. DEBATE AND SCENES IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. (tE;UTElR'S TBLEGRA.L) I Paris, May 28. At the opening of to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the President announced that ib he ad received froza M. Laguerre a request for ! leave to move an interpellation to the Minister of Juetice regarding the delay of the High Court of Justice in submitting its ...