... LA T E ST t'X0N - Larso l ZN ;B' b I _ . . . I [FROM OUR OWN COARiSPOrNDEis] LONDON, Wednesday evening. Christmas Day in Londonu'has proved every-. SC tting that could be desired. A change of wind in last night drove off rain, caused a frost to set in, and Ithe morning broke bright and sunny. bf Everyone seemed to be in a state of high enjoy- ar ment throughout the day, which generally lent ...

... .THE AROHBOLOGY'' qPAuNTOMIME: ,, _ ; . j . :Ei R t . -,: ; ~ 9 , ;7 i 7550 a succession of 1kideidbicopa 'sc~iic e ffibdts 'whilbh, *9ld gr'ce. the ltdeiewb of 'the 'stage: c. pei..tr sir the ' bt or.et of modern panatomime, Pdgsibly the popularity of I the'se.,perf'ohmancese is undfiminished. b ut, if so, this di i~s mailry due to the cConservatism of tAhe fashbionc childiren6'shall ...

... ThIE COUNTY. COUNCIL . Di .;: i .-' 1 :. : :~ 7 . I: : f~- NiOMINATION Or ADD~S f A,-metiiziqi ofratepayergi in. !t sut divio of Oeu the cparish- of KNigg. was. badiPKth liiiaie, ro 'Scool'lat -igh toconsider tbeir' poiltion'-witji i reaiprdtot 'the Local GOoverihexAqt. 'ThOe meetis2 Coir ~~- was well attendad. ~~prop s' Mr' A. S. Cook, 'clitthier,_who was called td thj ecag~. chair, mnade, - ...

... 0 e INVERURIE;-PARISH OHVcrC.-The Rev. Mr iDonald, Keith-hal, conducted worship in the Parish Church on Snuday forenoon, and at the close of the service read an edict citing the congrega. t tion to a meeting of the Presbytery on Wednesday, the 1 tth inst., at 11-30 an-L, with reference to the app lintment of an assistant and successor to the Rev. Dr Davidson. t KINELLAR-APPOINTNS-ZNT ir ...

... ABE~RCHIRDER-..BaSACH OF' IHOTra LicsOETor of - b. otel-keeper from the Mernoch district was fats of charged with an offence within the neaning of tile anc. 1,Act~for the regulation of public-houses, -in so farxR als ig on 13th November last hie did, in at tent situated at liii, the Market Stance, hear the village .of Fordyce, goo traffic in spirits, &o., without having, Obtained a, to, i ...

... Lot~rinr4 Tuesday nighte The Money Markeit continues to harden, and ther is miee capital Olleriiig. RAtW keep firiu, and were there more bills offering the ohargsis would be dis- tinctly hkilher than they are. As I to1, three nioutba' bank bills are not genterally taken under 31 to 34 per cent. Money until the turn of the year is worth abrGuA I per cent,, andi it is expected that on Friday the ...

... HOW I BECAME AN J.R.S.A. An armusing Chapter of Autobiography is given under the above title in the Scottish Art Review for this month. After indicating his early artistic efforts, when ha sketched his feeding- bottle on the nursery floor with his stubby forefigier dipped in milk, and flattened his nose on the Window pane to limn his nurses profile on tbe moistEre, the writer briefly ...

... ni u-- ,t- Mr Thomas Mason. librarian of St Martin's-in5 iu the-Fields Free Public Library, London, author of id sThe PubLio and Private Libraries of Glasgow, in Adam Dickson, and other works, contribates,0 an to interesting article to this month's Library, under as the title of Psalter, at Peterhead, in wbicb he Y* describes tbe valuable collection of Mr W. L. Taylor tao of the ...

... 'BANCHOR-DEVlENIK PAROCHIAL~ X . u 5X:$u- ::-- i 0:-: 0: BOARD.. : qt I., I -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ -e V: --;If.,C5X CTH MLASSIf'OATION OF POOR'RATZS. A %seeti of 1this..3ard viiahlyepterday in t st'HotOIA'birdeen-niiColoeul ~~, t-(h, the,,';Bath ' o~k b'TrseenC 'Joyner' (the 'a chbairip n) presidin 'b'-folwlng,' lette, '2 received by Mr Simpson, the inrpector, 'from theih Board ...

... I N ATIONAL LIBERAL FEDERATION. I~~~~~~~. I . The twelfth annual meeting of the Council of tbe I National Liberal :Federation was opeued yesterday I in the Free Trade Hall, Mlanche.tfer, when there i was a good attendance of delegates. The chair was taken by. Sir James 'Kitson, president of the Federation, who was supported by 'Mr 'Stansfeld, .Mr'Ctnpbell Bannerman, Mr H. Forbes, Sir 'Wilfrid ...

... at H GR DIS.PU _ ., , .. i .TE . i ''' , ' . ;-HER! GAS WORSAW' -DI$ UTR. GRAVE CRISBI FEARED . IN LONDON. The Press Association says that, from all appear- ances, there seems no possibility of a crisisf in the dispute leetween tbe South Metropolitan Gas Com- pany and their etokers being iverted Only about a dozen-men have taken advantage. of the company's R offer to withdraw eheir notices,- ...

... ABERDEEN TRADES COUNCIL A mreetng o thie United Trades Council of Abedee w~13hed lstevening in the Cafe Build. i.ings; Shiprow-Mr Livingsaton, pres~ident, in the chair. o THSE STONRYWO613 PAMEWOUKURS' DISPUTE. v 'It was reported- that arrangementsL were made for c a concert, and tbat subscription lists were being issued, on behalf of the late employes at Stoneywood a Paperworks who had niot ...