... THEE IVATEVSIDE POLLED HERD. | g DRAFT SALE, The aunone cmenti tbat Mr George lVilken, ' rastereide of ,eorbes,, was to offer a draft from his 'I rnowned hetsi of polled Aberdeenshire cattle drew v tozether Y vit-erday a large and representative f aeiubtroe, of breeders from all parts of the United v luizidonru, repre entatives being present not only 9 hon the mr north, but from 11nr1and and ...

... . FORRES-SMALL DEBT COURT.-A Small Debh' ie Court was held yesterday-Sheriff Rampini presiding, ke There were five cases on the roll, none of them bein2 ,e of special interest, and the proceedings lasted ouly t about twentv minutes. t OULLEN-J.P. CouRT.-At a J.P. Court held e0 here on Thursday-Provost Grant and Baillie Skahel he on the bonch-Jobn Fraser, gamekeeper, Netherdaie, y appeared on ...

... SOMETHING' ABOUT INDIA. (FROM A CoRREsrPOSDEZT.) Our neighbours admit thatN we are the great Icoonising Power of the world. We have already aninexed one-seventh of the globe, and i hold one-fourth of the human race under our sway. Yet, - ith this record, Nye frequently mismanage our colonial interests, and run tilt , agaiust political exigencies. In a day gone bye this hidifeicnce cost us a ...

... : I I rFFOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.1 LONDOON, Monday night. Surely the gentlemen who credit the fo Government with the intention to add a hundred ni millions to the National Debt cannot have It much understanding of the Ministers of the bt day. The Premier lives not, and the possible bi Premier has yet to be born, who would, volun- to tarily and without pressure, and with but scanty justice, ...

... *'1I`E J1I-MALIDIC: CEILING O'F ,Y i MACHAlt CA'lT1111l.S.AL4. T¶jS latest publication of the Now Spalding Club iB a tiingL of beauty, and has evidently been a lhbour of love to all those concerned in pnomleing it. TI arcoheologists in particular it I wou (d be dillicult to exaggerate its value and interest ; but even, by those who are ignorant of heraldic lore aemdt technical detail it cannot ...

... SP(OWI'NG NEWS, THE IN;TrRNATIONAL GYMNASTIC SHIELD COMPETITION. The tie in the firsb round of the National Physical Recreation Sooiety's competition for the .'00 guinea challenge shield between the Glasgowv Young Mon's Christian Association and the Dua-lee Public Baths Gvininasium teams was con. tested in the -)undee Public Baths on Saturday eiening. Ballie Macdonald, the convener of the I ...

... METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE, LONDON, Wednesday, 830 p.m. In the course of the past 24 hours the barometer has fallen rteadily user the whoie of North Western Europe. and while a large depression has appeared oi' the west of Norway, same senall siihviliary dis- turbances have travelled eastwards acro, the Unired Kingdom. Moderate to strong south-westerly to .vesterly breezes have, therefore, set in ...

... ABERIDBEN BLIND ASYLUM. Tliri AIITOVED SCHHES. I11 The Scotch Education Department has now ap- I'll proved of the scheme of the Edu ational Endowments Tj comrniksiour5 for the future administratilon of thie . inStitutioui, and it is very probable that in itd pre m sent form it will become law towards the end of oh next March. The new governing body are em b powered to discontittue or maintain ...

... RtOYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY, (PRO3I OUR OWN REoRBTER.) i Yesterday the sixty-third Exhibition of the Academy was opened for press inspection. It a may be considered that the Exhibition this f year is above the average. Taking our local c men first, the St Luke's family necessarily B claims attention to begin with. Mr George I Reid has six portraits and one landscape-the C latter. a distant view of ...

... AGRICULTItRAL IRELAND, t The etimates of the acreage under crops which i. were issued in the antuinn by the Rezistrar-General e are fully confirmed in the most important items of d information by the full statistics which are aow d published. e THE ACREAGE tNDER CEREAL CBOFS t shows last year an increase in wheat of '21.832 nore. a in barley of 8750 acres, in bere of 122 acres and in e rye of ...

... G,7fENERAL FOREIGN NrEWS I ~- - I '%IE LATE CROWN PRINCE OF AUSTRIA. LETTER FROM I'HE EMPEROR. rUiETRERP EXTRAORDINARY STORIES. (Rcu 1ER'S Tm.EicANc,) Vienna, Wednesday. -The Elineror Francis Josol)1, ,II an autugraphi letter to my people, publisied to-day, says -- Overwhellited vibti! rijef. he bows before ai inscrutable decree of )ijvti:e Providence, appealing, with his people cc rm ...

... NORTHEPRN CO-OPERATIVE COY. HIALF-YEARLLY ME ETING. The half-yearly meeting of the members of this a society was held in the Nortbhern Friendly Society's hv F Hall, Aberdeen, on Saturday eveniug-Mr James , IHunter in the chair. There was a fair attendance, It. Mr Jamnes S, Low, the secretary, having read the c, advertisement ceiling the meeting, read the report fi for the six months endliig ...