... AGRICULTURE .FAlLS AND STOCK SALES. AYR COUINTY AUCYTION MART.-.-r James castj bad full average Supplies of fat rattld at market yesterda,7 including manly lots of soeY Parsle Wigtossstsallaze ul,; and soe Iota of Isouse-ed cattle. Trade for all Class wa-L3sopiritd, sond a. camplote rinaranos seas efllector as pr.ices mulch the sans .as loot roek. Fat cows and brA:, w;arosehown in lasgo ...

... ew - -- -_ LORD RO IERYy.AT' BATH. SPEECH ON O A ,THMg,. PITT, AND THE TRANSVAL. THE DUTY OF THE. LIBERAL PARTY. The Earl of Rosebery was yesterday made an honorary freeman of Bath on the occasion of his visiting that city to unveil murs1 tablets to the, Earl of Chathen and William Pitt. Many Britislit worthies are associated with the past history of the renewed watering-place, which a century ...

... IA NE'E N F¢RAI 1, i A 7 1tYWAC NA. The London and North-Wcstern Railway Com- pany are at present experinenreting with a nete coupling for railway waggons, and the s-5tem has been inspected by a number of supcr:n- tendents of railways at Easton Station. Thi couplings are the invention Of Mir E. IL 1:. and 0o0ls5st or no more than a mcodti'crion of tbhse niow attached to waggons on Bl-in:h ...

... -T-1- ?? A T .1 It 0 li - ? ENVIRONMENTS OF LADYSMITH. The above map shows the country around Sir George White's camp at Ladysmith. It gives the road to the east, along which General Yule's column mat chad from Dnndee, as well as the road to Newveastle, on which battles were fought at Rietfontein and Eiandslasgte. The railway stations showvn are Nelthorpe, Pieters, Besters, Walker's Holk and ...

... ENGLLSU PILGRIMS AT ROME. ?? _ Speech by the Pope. (-zUTSR 'S TXLEOEAM.) Rome, October 23. The Pope received in the Clementine Hall at noon to-day about 100 English pilgrims, who were accompanied by various menmbers of the British colony. Mfgr. Stonor and Bannin presented the ' pilgrims to the Pope, whso caused his secret I chamberlain, Algr. Mperry Del Val, to read a short speech in Italian, ...

... THE Q2UEEN AT BALPAORAL (Fl-ost rss COURT CIRecUAR.) Balmoral, Friday. Yesierday morning. the Queen held a, Council at which were present the Duke of Fife, the Right lon. A Akers-Doujrlas. and Lieuteanst-Colonel the Riglht lon. Sir Fleetwood Edwards. Mr Alnerie Fitzroy, Clerk of Privy Council, was in attendance. The Right lion. A. Akers-Douglas had an audience of er HMiajesty previous to the ...

... B I RID-s'S = -E Y;-E V [lieW OT i- E-*Ci: E, D~U~N~DE E, Ad . * - - -. S BATTLE OF: GLEN C O E BOER POSiTI6o1 ?? FLAGS BFlTISH CAMP a, ;Ltwy' ROADS r.. ~ .. X Me ON; E HiLt URVATI MT- -, ?? - ?? -CA ?? - - ?? .y The above bird's-oev view shows the position of Boers aeld British iD Friday and Saturday's battlrs at Glencoe. I The Drifts inarkcd are, of course. not on the tops, but at the ...

... EICCLESIASTICOAL. GLeAsecW FREP PaESBYTERY.-A special meet- ing of the Free Presbytery of Glasgow was held yesterday afternoon-Rev. R. S. Duff moderator. Chalmers congregation requested that steps should be taken for a moderation in a call to Mr Thomas Marshall, Motherwell. Mr Camp- bell, session clerk, said that the congregation were unanimous in the call. They had kept well together, and ...

... (WEAJA3 'I;EP fRM AWFREGASTL h~etesltif~ll.S day-,8.30.ra P- At 6 p.m. to-day the pressunsvas highest (30 37 inches) .at- Holyhead0and exoeedin5135-3 inches K almost all over our isl inds;flnvest (29-5inchesT and less) over Sweden. q~he gracdients were still I very slight over our isisr ii. the barometer was I beginning to fall again itr ctbehitreme sontli-west 4 anld wfest. The temapt sr~att2 ...

... .RAILWAY WO~RKERS. An Important Moyement. At the last annual genera:l; meeting of the Amalgamated Socety of Railway Servants a re- solution was adopted giving sarction for a general a'itation among railwaeymen of the kingdom for iren roved conditions of labour on the various railways.. The general secretary, Mr R. Bell, was instructed to carry out this decision of the delegates as soon as ...

... T HE Q.T- JEIELIES. An unusual feature -in The Cnert'clv is a teriets of ilustrationis to an article about Zebras, Jiorecs. and ilybrids. It is hoseld on Trofessor1 J. c.Ewvart's eccitint of the Penycuik experi- rnontr, and is full of curious facts. 1?ixt place I in Cbs rn:umcnbr. hwen-eve :s given to the Tedclra- lio of Australia, the kb-tiory of sto oh I's fod~owe-d, anti thle character ...

... I 0.1I : ?? iR . .- 2-9 ? , ?? ?? -- -- I |- FR.IDAY, OCTonfT' 27, 1399- The House of Lorls hcld a brief sitfting yes- ter(iay, *vWhen the Queen's r eply to tlhcir Lord- ships' .A;ddress in reply to theI SpeehL- from the Throne was brought up. Barvn I's nncefote, |thc British Ambassador at Washington, took 1 his seat upon lhis elev ation to thc peerace, and the Second Session (Explanation) ...