... Her Majesty, acting on the advice of the Home Secretary, has granted a reprieve to Florence MIay- , brick, and commuted the sentence to one of penale e servitude for life. a Mrs Maybrick is reported to be improv- eoing as little. She is very thankful for the a efforts made to save her life, but the chaplain a considers that she scarcely realises the convict's e life that is before her.. When ...

... Mrs Rosana Lanoiimaun von Gmazaenfels, widow of the m an who committed a double eorder and suicide at Stratford, arrived in Stratford f rom, londlon on 'Thursday, and identified her huslasnd's, body. She Was met at the station by the Seperin- tendont of Police, who took her to the haosbe where the tbreo -bodies were laid out. The woman readily identifed her husband, and, kneeling down, kissed ...

... MAREBT INTELLIGENCA CORN. is Conx Avsun-Rlturn for week ended August ot 24tb is as follows :-Wheat sold, 33,669 qrs.; barley, & 341 qra.; oats, 863 qrs. Average price-Wheat, 80a Y Sd ; barley, l9B fd; oat, 18B lId. Corresponding : week last year-Wheat sold, 20,647 qrs.; barley, 16 oi qr.; oati, 1030 qrsr Average price-Wheat, 36s ld; of barley, 21s lid ; oats, 20s Od. ie LoNDoN, Monday.-Markeb ...

... HINTS ONr BATHING. The most gratifyine results are obtainei from sea batbing in ordinary cases when the dip is indulged d in at mid-day. d Bathers should not go in for a long swim while under the influence of or shortly after any kind of excitement. D)u not go into water sooner than an hour or more eafter meals, nor if the body is wealcened by hunger or aexhaustion. d It is a mistake for ...

... BieRDE, MONDA, AUG.t20, IS. 1 ABERDEENr, MLONDAMY, AUG. 26, 1889. E Active operations by the enemy, in the form of attack on coast towns, have at last corn- , .. . . _ .. . . - menced-the east coast of Scotland having first mu claimed their attention. Onl Saturday Aber- onl deen and Peterhead were simultaneously attacked by the Anson and Collingwood -g respectively, and yesterday Leith fell ...

... THE REFORM OF THIE CIVIL SERVICE. The Press Association states that a Treasury ininute on a second report of tho Royal ComUnission on Civil Establishments was publisled last week. Their Lordships agree with the report that as a whole the l'layfair system has been, in intention, fairly tried according to time nud circumstances. I n the absence of a large scheme of compulsory retirenuent, ...

... W!EATFIER REPORT. MYimOR(LOGICiAL As'u1- ir, Loaroc, A \Vede-day, 5S30 pm. i. In the eour.se of th- past 2*4 hlouirs a new depres- 4 sion, subs4idiary to that of Tuesday, has advanced in II an easterly direction over Ireland and Etmiland. E Rough, unsettled weather has therefore again sprea' r. over the kingdonm, and stroog westerly ga;fles havc 4 been experienced to-day in the Channel. At ...

... MrOROLOGIOAL O)Fla4n LONDON, Thursday, 8 S0 p.m, The depressign which Jay over the north-west of Eagland on Wednesday evening bas travelled away to the south of Scandinavia, and a steady rise of the barometer has taken place to day in all parts of the United Kingdom. The wind has veered to the north-westward generally, and has blown hard on many parts of our coasts with a rather rough sea and ...

... I I . - . . t FROM OUJR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. 10 LoiwOx, Friday night. TI I understand that the strike of dock labourers sa:k i and others has extended to-the ezaployes at the TI rl Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company's Wharf i fa DO atLimehouse. The strike at- present is most a 8 determined, few vessels at the Port of London Clew] dy being able to get their cargoes either loaded or post, ...

... ILA-TEST LONDON NEWS.I l[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.1 es ets LooNnox, Wednesday night. In Mr John O'Counor, M.P., who was this e morning liberated with Mr Oondon, a brother h compatriot, immediately proceeded from prison I to Pailiament. Upright John, as the hon. a a member is called from his stature and carriage, t as a pretty fraternal play upon his character, I d does not appear to have ...

... THE NAVAL MAN(UVRES. A CAPTURE OF ABERDEEN, PETER- d HEAD, AND LEITH. viea - - - ~~~~~~Limi HEAVY RANSOMS DEMANDED. wat cap H.u1) Two of Admiral Baird's Squadron, comprising Trei the enemy in the present naval manceuvres, The made an uneipected attack on Aber- the deene and Peterhead. on Saturday, and claimed to whit have captured both ports, and followed this up fr~n yesterday by the ...

... |REV. JOHN ROBERTSO-, SrONEHAYEN, \ ON CHRISTIAN WORKERS. An interesting meeting in connection Witth the Aberdeen Open-i Evangelistic Mission toosk place f rin St Kietharine's Hall on Saturday night, the wit] r particular object of the meeting being to bid farewell 1the sto Mr John Cooper, who baa been the leader of the way the to choir of 'the mission since its institution in1 this 0 1d86, ...