... 1 STUDENTS' REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL SIR,-The letter signed Sigma, so far as students are concerned, requires no reply. But as it is addressed through you to the public, it is well that this inconsistent, blundering, and unmanly attack upon the Students' Representative Council should be exposed. It is hard to believe that an intelligent student should so write of the Council, harder still ...

... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, THE HALFPENNY DINNERS TO POOR CHILDREN. SIR,-H1aving observed with much satisfaction the manner in which the poor children have taken ad- vantage of the halfpenny dinners daily served out to them in Shuttle Lane, and seeing that winter has set in with great severity, would you kindly allow me to suggest a scheme that would enable the manage- nient to still continue the ...

... FORDOUN - PRECENTOR FOR FREE CHURCHr.-A meeting of the Dosacons' Court was held on Tuesday evening, when Mr William Forbes was chosen as precentor. CALL TO A MOFF'ArTi MINiSTEt.-A call is about to be presented to the Rev. D). WV. Forrest, M.A. United Presbyterian Church, Moffatt, to succeed the late Rev. Dr Leckie in the ministry of Ibrox United Presbyterian Church, Glasgow. CALL TO A MONTROSE ...

... e ,-- SMART CRIMES ACT SENTENCE. f At Bunbee, County Donegal, yesterday- John t r Kelly, National League agent, was convicted under the Crimes Act of conspiracy to incite tenants and Y r others on the Olphert estate to resist the law. He t was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with t hard labour. An appeal was lodged. MB WILLIAM O'BRIEN AT KILLARNEY t COURT. r Mr William O'Brien was ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE INSECT PESTS OF THE FARIM. The second annual report of the Agricultural Adviser to the Lords Committee of Council for Agriculture, dealing with insects and fungi injurious to the crops of the farm, the orchard, and the garden, has just been issued. It deals with a great variety of moths and their caterpillars, giving their life history, and then dealiny with their prevention and remedies. ...

... of ok REMOVAL OF MR O'BRIEN TO les KILLARNEY. ed EXCITING SCENES. te, A military and constabulary guard of about 200 ble men marched to Glosimel Gaol at nine yesterday lno morning, when Mr William O'Brien was conveyed thence to Tralee Gaol, in eustody of warders, to :re answer to a charge of conspiracy at EKillarney. re- At the railway station the police were stoned. They ihe charged with ...

... LETTERS TO TEE EDITOR. THE SCOTTISH PARAPHSASES. n SIR,---Upon all who way come in coltact with the f Loganl-Bruce controversy, whether fLoni inclination or necessity, it is incumbent that the existing ev dence should be carefully sifted. It fell to my i lot, while preparing a history of The Scottish | Paraphrases, to come, of necessity, in contact with that controversy, and your readers ...

... ;THE COLLISION OFF BEACHY 11HEAD. I } FOUNDERING OF THE GLENCOE. i i--- i D I FIFTY.TRREE LIVES LOST. (I A IC Lloyd's agency says there is too much reason to fear L- that the steamer supposed to be suink with all hands v tby collision on Monday night off Beachy Head with .!th-e barq'ue Largo Bay was one of thle tine steamers cd1belongirng to the Glen Line fleet, The Glencoc of d this line left ...

... The Wexford People says:- We notice that MIr James Talbot Power, D.L., has been elected one of the vice.presidents of the City of Dublin Unionist Registration Association. The main objecit of this sssociLion is, as the report of the Executive Committee s-ates, to rculi down the r Nationalist majority on the votinui lIsts at the next revision. Its general object.i ars to combat and ...