... LET ERS TO THE EDITOR.' THE WAR IN THE TRANSVAALT 173' St Vincent Street, jS Sir-One Glasgow, December 20, 1o. ?? is iot greatly surprised that a poli- tician like Sir Wilfrid Lawson should indulge in such weak rhetoric and nurposeless erticism S as characterised his address at Carlisle last week, des but I confess to a feeling of misgiving that an Sox ?? Minister of the rank and experience ...

... ANTI-BRITISH FEELING IN I FRANCE. The Insults to the Queen. (rB'xs TLECEGAS.) Paris, December 2. The President of the British Chamber 0o Commerce in Paris, in a letter to the Matin, refers to the differences existing between Eng- land and France and to the attacks on the person of the Queen, which have caused such strong feeling in England. After dwelling upon the chivalrous instincts of ...

... TME ApMOURED ICilUISERS. i L IpU i I s Description of H.M.S. Cressy. To-day the Fairfield Engineering and Ship- building Company (Limited) will launch ELM.S. Cresu, the first of the two armoured cruisers of 12,000 tons displacement they are building for the British Governmnent. The vessel represents an improvement on the Diadems, two of which- the Diadem and the Argonaut-were built by t the ...

... CLACKMANNAN MiCETION. Mr Youngers Candidature, Mr George Y~onnger, the 'Unionist candidate, I 0 addressed three meetings in the western part a of the constituency on Saturday. The first was h held at Cambusskenneth Abbey. The meeting Vc took place in the Schoolroom and the audience, It] iwhich numbered 30 persons, was presided over by Provost Hunter. The Chairman, in intro- ducing the ...

... HERALD OFFICT, 6.30 A.M. POSfITION AT MIOD . 1DER (T'rlEs TELEGRAM. ) f Alodder River, December 18, 10.20 a.mn. Ie News Comes from Jacobsdal that Kuruman is g 1till held by a s-mall force of police, despite the, t renewed exertions of the Boers. , At Mlafeking also it appears the besiegers have i! 5uffered severely, and the siege is weakening. i Rumours credit the Free Staters with the inten- ...

... CaR3IST-21S. GLASGOWI P OT OFFICE. The first deliey sen' ant this morning wl probably be the Lsaviest in the history of the? Glasgow Post Office. For a good rnany years the Christmas traffic at etdch reu-nence'of the season has shown a mnarked advance not onlv in the quantity, but in the chiatcer and variety of matter fak1ing to be dealt with by the poutad authoritoi.s Even while the ...

... 4t4LtASGOVW HERALD+ SHILLING I WAR FUND. | rELIEF FOR FAMILIES OF SOLDlERS. Tctal up to date, 85,013 Shillings. T i9 Fund, started hv the proprietors of the 'Glasgow Herald for the Rel'ef of the ?? of our Slcdiers who are fighting treir co':ntry's battles in South Africa, has met witb a prompt and generous responas -re ublec. 1.r; arcely necessary to mention that the prin- ,i..a1 object of ...

... WEATHiER HEPCRT ANO FRiECASTS. i Metoorlogical Office, eeoud y, S.30 pnrn. At G pim. the pressure wvaz highest (30'0 incoes arid moze to 30C0 inches) over Sweden and ILap- land, 2U2 inches and manre in the south of Portugal, and exceeding 30 0 inches all over the BLay of Uise;.y and the wetst of France; lowest (29 4 inches to 2950 inches) over the Sietland Isles arid the norihl uf Scotland, ...

... , I I IC f The monthly meeting of Glasgowr School C Board was held yesterday-the chairman, Sir John Neilson Cuthbertson, presiding. The Resignation of Dr Ross. The Chairman, referring to the resigniation of tl Dr Ross, said he regretted extremely that it had tt fallen to his lot to move in this matter. Dr Ross b was a very valuable colleague for five years. It t4 iwae a privilege to be ...

... WELD-BLMNDELL ABvITTMI I :1 MEDITION. Address by Lord Lovat. Lord Lovat, who was one of the members of I the Weld-Blundell expedition to Abyssinia dur. ing last winter and spring, delivered a, lectule on the subject in Beauly on Monday. His Lord- f ship said- that the most noteworthy points achieved by the expedition -were the discovery that the source of the Blue Nile had been de- I'picted on ...

... :O ,: D: LBOUR-HAF4-M --:s WAGES IN T.HE :TEEL TRADE. I The Scotch Steelmastera' Association met* yesterday -and considered the Wtae gequestion. They found that the price of pig iron at ?? sent is the same as it was in July Iast, when;: the men got an advance of 10 per cent. cnf, their Wages They, therefore, decided that a her increase was not wazrarlted at the present time. The meeting, ...

... rhe Clackmannan and Kinross I Vacancy. Letter from Mr J. S. Balfour. r. rincehing of representatives of the; different )oieral associations in Clackmannan and Kin- ross wvas held in the Alioa Liberal Club on Satur- tiay afternoon for the purpose-as the circular talling the meeting stated-of adopting a Liberal candidate. The're was a large attendance. and Mr Johnl Thomson Paton pre&sed. The ...