... A POLICEMAN'S LOVE-MAAKING. o At Liverpool the other daya young girlof prepossess. r ing appearance, named Nellie Dunlop, applied fcr an lo order against William Coid (police constable 480), in , the police force, for the maintenance of an illegiti. d nsate child, Mr Quilliam appeared for the complain- n ant, and Mr Neale for the defence. Complainant, w it appeared, wae a domestic servantj and ...

... lofty SPEECHES BY PRINCIPAL DONALDSON alwvaq AND THE EARL OF ELGIN. miijud arra Js, conference in connection with the Fife and d Kinross Associa.tion of the Educational In stitute of th4 Scotland was ?? in the High School at Dunform- condc line on Saturday. There was a large attendance. tii Mr 'George 'Henderson, chairman of th 1)Unfern- eselve line Branch of the Institute, presided. The moun ...

... PUBLIC VMETNG IN ZDIBRTMH. A pnblia meeting, convensed -by a snammitt, e lEdiaburgh. Chamber---of Commerce appointd to f rpopet upon tbhe. te55* rates-rend charges pro,,,&. t to be aixed by the Scotch railway-compasoi,,, ?? a held in the ball of the Chamber, Mellbourst pias, f Edinburgh, yesterday afternoon, ' ?? what combined action-should be- taken in Oppod. tion to the proposed jacrease of ...

... COURSLYG. 1H-YDOCK PARK MERBTING. TPJD&Y, Mamch 22. Judge, Ur Hadley. Slipper. T. Idusawo. One of the beat meetings that 'has been held at Hay dock Park for a long timne wan brought to a conclusion to-day, at wbich altogether W4 dogs ha~vemrn since the irst courson Tuesday. Mr E. M. Croswe, the well-known southern courser, was- one of the principal winners at the meeting, for his Coca Water ...

... DAILY RECORD OF POLITICAL I AND OTHER EVENTS. PEOIAL TELEGRAMS VIA TH . COMMERCIAL CABLE.) thc Washington, March 23. toz Mr Whitelaw Reid was confirmed as the Tb Minister to France toeday, also Colonel Fred D. Grant as the Minister to Austria. The appoint. Tei 'ment ef Mr Reid was coofirmed by a party i vote, but that of Colonel Grant was unanimous. Tb The Secretary of State has designated ...

... LATEST LONDON NEWS bun re- 0. on [FROM OUR OWN CORRE3PNDENTS.] iChl !a-1 of, LONDON. Wednesday pight. -ly The death of Mr Bright, although universally ier regretted, has, not excited the attention in Off London which it would have received if it had ;ill occurred in the midst of an active political he. career. As far as practical politics are con. bec erned, or even occasional debating, or a ...

... NEW DEBI SMlOOL BOARD. d _ .~ THE DEADLOCK IN TRE BOARD. d BKTfAORDINABIY P--UTM L AGAIES1T XXIMIL y A meiting of the New Deer School Board wms ;hold within the Public Hall, New Deer, on Tuesday forenoon-Dr Macleod, chairman of the Board, pro- I, siding. The Clerk baying read the minutes of the it last ordinary and special meeting of the Board, T, hTe Chairman moved that, as the minutes of the ...

... THE P[ROPOSED INCREASE OF RAILWAY , KiAT ES. A me tin_ of the tradera in the town was heild ynsieidaLvy atternoon in the Volunteer Hail. Provost Putguid was called to take the chair, and said that it would be a very serious matter if the railway coUn- p:'ies were to eniforce tdie nmaximum rates. If they had un intention of doing so, he did not see why they should has'e the power. B3aillie ...

... . LORD HARTI±NdTON ON THE UNION. Lord Hartington presided on Friday at a meetiug of the Organising Council of the Liberal Unionist Associations of the United Kingdom held in Great George Street, West- minster, lie urged upon Unionists the uases- sity of having popular candidates to support them in every constituency. It was sometimes said that the Liberal Unionist party was extinct in the ...

... I- SI WHACURT AT BRADFORD.- 'air ic THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE kht ATTORNBY-iENERAL. ide sy, A mass demonstration of Liberals was held last the night in St George s Hall, Bradford, to protest wer against the policy of the Government, and demand. )ur ing an immediate dissolution. The hall was densely ink packed long before the hour of meeting, the attendr as5 ance numbering not far short of ...

... *MR CIMBERLAT -ON TeM CROFTEP.R QUFSfON.- A Meth1r, Wa itoi& ox Thursday ath5 3' f 1Hotel, Dover Street London. fee' thie-P-1111004 of discussing certain plans of Sir asolb Lister Kaye's ?? for a large and methodfical system 'femigration at for' the -crofters to the' Canadian Nqorth-West in [MAD conaO ci with the, North-Wwi Territory of isd' Cazadsb Settlement Company. Among those'c present ...

... COUNT BISMARCKS VISIT ID. .TO LONDON. SAMOAN AND EST AFRICAN AFFAIRS fuZUTIeaS T=GNERtMs) Berlin, March 23. To-day's Boerwl Zeitung again refers to Count Herbert Bismaroks visit to London, and de. clares that-the principal object of his journey to Mi the British capital is to settle difficulties in Gr connection with colonial affairs, so far as these me bave been produced by -iews differing ...