... tAe 'RDbeN, DeY, JUL 1itYt. ABERDEEN, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1889. Ir I n .I . . . .. .. . _ London, and presented him with the freedom of that borough. Mr Gladstone. in reply, referred to legislation for the freedom of industry and commerce, for the repeal of the corn laws, the great reduction of commodities embraced in custom duties, the necessity for upholding free trade, and the great value of ...

... To day the Aberdeen sbhopkeeners observe their it annual holiday. As usual, the railway companies 4t have provided excellent travelling facilities, and a Is large number of special trains will be run. -TheIs Great North Company's first special train will leave 8r the Joint Station at twenty minutes to six, its 31 destination being Inverness, to which place also, and r stations on the main ...

... (FBOM THE EVENrNG EXPnESS.) An eventful day in the annals of Banffand Macduff has come and gone, and the marriage rejoiciugs of the Duke of Fife wvll lonr be remembered by the younger generations of the adjoining communities. The ex. pression of pleasure at the happy union was loyal and spontaneous. It was also nll but universal, only a factious few holding aloof from taking part in the ...

... WEATHER EJ.!PORT. MeTEOROLOGI CAL OFFICE, LosIo-,, Frietav, S-30 pin;. In the coursie of the past 24 hours a series of com- plex depressIOns has advansced ol tbe Iribh coasts fromu the Atlantic, and ap pears to be spreading all over the king.dom. The gi:adients for southerly and south-westerly winds have been increasing steadily. The wind has backed to the southward very generally, anid ...

... All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. -OLD PROVxas. Tbey are telling a very good story of Toole just now. Once, in Dundee, he offered to give a short sketch as a Ride show at a cbarity bazaar, and crowds paid their shilling to get into the room. When Toole caine up, snd assured the doorkeeper that he was the sbowman, the canny Scot stuck to bin orders, and said, 1Iaybe ye are, and ...

... HUNTLY-A FRAunDULXt N H&wKR.-Ab the Police Court yesterday-before Chief- Magistrate Dunbar-James Stewart, hawker, was charged with having obtained a china tea set from Mrs Macmill an George Street. It appeared that aconsed, after ob- taining the dishss, had absconded to Fraserburgh, where he had been appreheided. LHe pleaded not guilty to the chalrge preferred against him, but was convicted on ...

... ANNUAL REPORT. The report of the Frishery Board for Scotland for bhe year lSSS was issued yesterday. A considerable portion of it is devoted to information concerning the I berring fishery. It is stated that there were 612 fishcuring establishments engaged in the herring in- i dirstry upon the east coast last season, being 62 less I tban in 1887. The gross quantity of herrings branded for the ...

... SCHOLARSHIP IN THE CHU'RCH, (FROM A CORRESPONDIIET.) There is in this month's issue of the Scottish Church an article which hits off with accuracy a need in the National Church. which, felt already, will continue to be felt with increasing gravity as time goes on. The little magazine in which it appears, although less extensively circulated than Life and vork, has a substantial raison ...

... Apropos of the renascence of the Mackay clan it the north, the Scotsman has the following'. article To the southron Caithness sounds like an echo of the far north, John o' Groat's House is there. As a matter of fact, John o' Groat's House is no longer there. Troja fuit ; and in this ancient land Johu o' Groat, the mythical Dutchman, is a figure of ves- terdav, In one of the oldest ...

... GENERA.LL FOREIGN NEWs THE ANTWERP EXPLOSION. 0 .LATEST PARTICULARS. I (RIUTER's TILGztAM.) Antwerp, Saturday, noon.-The fire at the 1 petroleum warehouse is still raging. There have been 125 persons killed and'200 injured. Antwerp, Saturday afternoon.-The Minister t of the Interior visited the scene of the ex- a plosion to-day. Telegrams have been received i by the Burgomaster from the King ...

... LETTERS TO TPHE EDITOR, MODERN LANGUAGES AND THE I SCIENCE DEGRIEE. S1iR,- Peregrinus and I agree much more than be is aware of, and had he read my letter snore care- fully, and not drawn conclusions for which I gave him no cause, he could not but have seen so for him- self. He accuses me of saying that graduates in I science should have a greater ianiliarity with modern I lauguares than ...

... MZTEOROLOGICAL OFFICe, LONIDOx, Sunday, 8-30 p.m. The large anti-cyclone which lay over the whole of the north-west of Europe during the latter part of last week bas moved north-eastward to Scandinavia, and appears to be dispersing. A secondary system seems to have reached the west of France during to- day, but this also appears to be giving way, and gradients for southerly winds are spreading ...