... 1IJE ROUT. WITH the Gladstonians it is now a case of sauce qui pent. And few of them are able to t save themselves. They are going down like c ninepins in at skittle-alley. We stated i yesterday that it looked as if the Unionists would will 100 seats before the close of the week. They have done better than we ex- pected, for their wilns Up till late last night amounted to 100, as against t 18 ...

... I?O1tTRERN SUMME[? UESORTS. D. IMPROV~hEMNTS AND PROSPECTS AT BALILATER. Comparatively Low lodgers have as yet arrived ta in Ballater, where the real season does not gener- sal 'ally comomence till July. leseside is looking beau. ive tiful, and the brilliant weather of the past ten days Led seems to have anticipated summer and revealed the burgh in all its brigheat attraCtiveetiss. Ib will be ...

... THE U2N1iiVFRSITIES OF ABERDEIEN. ~I ¢S. ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND UNION. tt tht V. -Tjm COmmiSSION oF 1690: ENDOW- d' mlmsm: CIVILISTS. d1 t 16S4 Principal Alexander Middleton re- il I Attached to his resignation was the 0dition that, if the office should again become PI vsint dhiring his lifetime, he ' should have free ,r both tO the Rsill ofttice and ill the benefits ti 01 cwluxuenits thereof ...

... PROFESSOR BUCKIi LAST LETTER. ijiiONE ltu LI ALL ROUSD.5 The following letter must have been one of the last written communications which the late Professor Blackie put his pen to. It was addressed to Messrs Blackie & Sons, the publishers, of Glas- gow:- 9 Douglas Crescept, Feb. 15, 1895. My Dear Sir,-Accept my best thanks for your last instalment of the ' Ristory of the Scottish People.' ...

... C1ARGB oF Tarit,-Wrn. Davidson Strath, farm servant, Pitaligo, emitted a declaration-be. fore Sberiff Rampini, IElgin-on a charge of theft by opening a lock-fast. trunk at Braehaugh, Rafford. He was comnmitted for trial. Pg$lIi~EAD. POLIlC Coult.-At a Pohlce Court held here yesterdy -Baillie Rosa presiding - Andrew Foenii.ii, fisherinan. iwohauhaven, plcaded n66 guilty of having on Friday, ...

... TEEN RULE OF THE ROAD I AT SEA. lMPORTANT CONFENOBE IN w LONDON, int W C001gl)DEM ANATION OF BOARD OF TRADE. do otl IENIMORIAL TO MR BDR I. toE an LONnDox, Tuesday. no A s ublic meeting, chiefly composed of gentlemen Cc e,4aged in the shipping trade, was held this after- me o, in the Shippin4 Exchange, Billitcr Street, to to, nsider the newv regulations shortly to be brought of ?? force by ...

... _ - _I THE BRITISH FLEET. THE RECENT EXECUTION Ok SPIS, ads Asi (PALL MALL TELEGRAM.) Chefoo, Tuesday. -Ib is rumonred that the wb Japanese have landed on Shentung promontory, A 1 about 25 miles from Wai-hei-wai. The British hat fleet is cruising in the neighbourhood watehing thevo Japanese movements. (DALEEL's TrItEGRAM.) fiui Washington, Tuesday. - In aecordauce with hal the request of the ...

... AEORTH ABERDEEN. MR BR1CE is to speak this evening in North Aberdeen on behalf of Dr Hunter. It is not improbable that the right hon. gentleman may announce the appointment of his colleague to the Chairmanship of the General Prisons Board. At least, it has been hinted that such a thing is possible, and it is known that Dr Hunter's political friends have been exerting themselves to secure that ...

... M. DAUDET ON SCOTLANI) AND THE . SGOTCH. INTERESTING 5tiTXRVI,.W. M. Alphonse Daudet, who is at present stayinZ at a hotel in the West End of London, caume to England for a change of air, and especially a rest. I found M. Daudet (says the London correspondent of the Wlasgow Herald ) loking far from well. Leaning against his armchair was a stick hc ilas to use when walking, and every now and ...

... T'JA' 1;.4j;A L &PLXT IN INVERNESS- SBIRE, NOT long ago the LibIrras were jubilant over the disagreemient amongst the Unionists in Var0ickl and Leamington, and predicting that tile Unionist alliance wais going to break up. Fortunately the misunderstanding was easily got over without any damlage being done, but by the cruel irony 4f fate the Gladstonians bave now on their hands a family quarrel ...

... THE TAXES IN ABERDFEN. I - f - i REDUCTION ON. OWNERS. . The Finance Committee of Aberdeet ?? . ?? Bifct presiding-t anud ind wuder considrraticn thn aclasessmets; for tbe 1 o ansuiug year, with estimatesa of the sams necessary to hb levied by; the Town Counucii. Thie committee agreed to recommend that the council should fix the city rate to bo asseosed on ioccupiers: at 2s 3d per £, and the ...

... . ?? s By the death of Rev. Wi.. Christie, Marnoch, n another of the old parochial schoolmasters of the - north has been removed. Mr Christio was schoolmaster for nearly 50 years of the Parish School of Marnoch, to which he was g appointed shortly after the stirring ecclesiastical s events in that part of the country,which terminated Y in the Disruption of 1843. He continued in office until ...