... 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 ...

... *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 ...

... . ;. T 4ct tht a supply of air is seessavy for t5 the maintenance of fnml life is among! the most familiar of our own existence, andi T that of lower animals. Indeed, so emphatically r a ht-a the functions of the lunge come to be Ii identified with the prolongation of existence tt that we speak of the breath as synonymous d with life itself. The hst breath is .a piece o of popular ...

... ZRULAUIAOCAL who or mnyy awas inculabent rf the Episcop.wal Church, Rdinburgh, was jsdtsced int CA p theliving ?? Retory, in th iceseo CI Durbm~by rchdscaWatkins. ao represeliti- i bat tive of the Bishop of -Durhani. Dr 8andford has, bote been Bishop of Tasmania for some time, but at the Iad srequest of Dr Lightfeot, the Bishop of Diurham, that twhose health hee broken down, Dr Sandfild re-. ...

... LETTERS TO THlE EDITOIL TuE cILOFTERS AND THE DER. Iveraray, March 27,1889. pr SIB,-I Obsels ir. your PjiPe 9o p-day a letter pr signed B. B. Andar on, which assum~es tbat 1 am the proprietor-1 oioiime deor forest on the banks of N Loch Levenjia tbis county. If Mr Anderson bad wj .saked the ;'old fellow wbo told him about thei nc deor he would have been iuformed that I have no la r property ...

... THE AFFAIRS OF MR A. GLEN COLLNS. I At the London Bankruptcy Court yesterday the summary of accounts, &c.. under this failure wore V issued out of the department of the Chief Official Receiver. The debtor, described as of 187 Corn- wall Gardens, Kensington, gentleman, of no ecCU- I pation, lately of Nice and Meutone, France, and f Monte Carlo, Monaco, had a receiving order made | against him ...

... PROPERTY SALUS. MassrsTurnbull, Parnie& Adam, property agsts,. 27 Union ;Street, Glasgow, report the following sales of property, in the Faculty Hall, yesterday- Great Weitern o3oad and Lansdowne Crescent- Property Nos. MS-400 of the former and 43 of the 3 latter ;. extent, of ground, 1541 sqnare yards; rental, £281, ground burdens, £34 19s ld; sold at thou:ipset prize of £3600, Moriteith ]fow ...

... The Press Asseciation ?? hae reason to believe khat in addition to a diary cevering one of the most eventful periods of Pigott's life, seveane ihterestiag documents in the shape of letters and memoranda have found their way into the possession of Messrs Lewis & Lewis. Great reticence is observed as to the contents of these documents, which will, it is declared, lead to farther sensations in ...