... LIBERAL 1EADERI ON PARTY PROSPECTS. Letter from Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman. At a well-attended meeting last night of the Liberal Association of Dunferrline, one of the group of burghs represented in Parliament by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Mr William Robertson, president of the association, read the following letter from Sir Henry:- House of Commons, December 12. My dear Robertson,-Your ...

... FISHING BEPOBTS. GmVAge. Satnotday.-The flsbirn was anuruailY slack ast w-eek,. both at Iirssa and the roat thioss but price9 were high. The small line boats vvere four times oat during the week fot catches of 3 Voi6 shones a boat eachl time, and thae pnc per stone for mixed catches of whiting and haddock t s 6d to 3s 4d. Yssoure~i. SteiodzdyrOving to the t-hisix ire~ther the supply is again ...

... GENERAL AND COMMERCIAL PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN-MR BRYAN as ma AND THE POPUJLISTS. rg (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) Mnc Topeka, August 23. I Mr Bryan was to-day- formally notified of his , dcei 'nomination for the Presidency by the Populist National Convention and the Monetary League.'N In accepting nomination by the former, Mr ?62 Bryan pointed nut that where the Poulas n Democrats agreed was on question ...

... IMPEDLPAIAENT.J HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, July 17. n The Lord-Chancellor took his seat on the j Woolsack at a quarter-past four o'clock. I e County and Borough Franchise Assimila- I tion (London) Bill. V Lord FARQUHAR moved the second reading Vf this bill, which seeks to add to the register of t *oters of the London County Council lodger and 1 3 service franchise voters He said that about rI ...

... UNIVERS ITY COURT OF ST ANDREWS. :~-Handsome Gift from Lord Bute. It A meeting of the University- Court of the sk- se University, of. St Andrewst swa held on Satur- dlay,- when there were ?? James; re Stat .P., rect,,r of the university (in the hi o chair); Principal Donaldson, Very Rev. Princi- r epal. Stewart, Principal Mackay1 Mr J. Gordon b Stuart, IProvost Ritchie Welch,, Dr Balf our, t a ...

... TIEIIT8I-7IL ,~ - A SERIOU BLOW TO TR The Saarg Chese. {From Special Core spondent of ro a .y News and Glasgow Herald') Shanghai, July at$ 2.50 prm.. Ui4-Kun-Yi strongly urges tht the Allied, Powers should give a guarantee not to :atenspt the partition of China. and to proteidt the pes : of -the Dowager-Ernpress. Chinee from Tai-Yau-Fu 'say that, owin g to -- the anti-foreign feeling of the ...

... CONTINENTAL BOURSE&. (R EICtERS TELEGRAIMS.) at PARIS, WEoN3sDAT.-BuSiness continued very quiet Ir to-day. Sti a favourable tone prevailed, chiefly in con- I sequence of more resassuing news from China. Among s, international stocks, Turhish were in demand on the note tb addressed by the German Emperor to the Sultan as re- Q1 gards the completion of the Bagdad Raiway. Spanish tj Fours, on the ...

... FIRST-CLASS AVERAGES -l tA ^1tC:fl~W S. - 3i~AMPSHiR sir With a drawn game against Sussex, the Hampshire eleven Co, yesterday brought a moet disastrous season to a close, Dot ar one of their matches having ended in their favour. They r itook part in^22 engagenents, of which they lost 16 and drew i; the remaining half-dozen. Lancashire, Surrey, Somerset, cal Yorkshire, sold Kent all beat them ...

... IECCLESTASTIOAL. RENAWMG OF SALTCOATS FEZ! GJMa C e 1 CarsRC.-Some difficulty has prevailed in this congregation over the choice of a name by y which to be known after the approaching union. d The congregation, at a meeting to consider the question, resolved, by a majority, to be known 2 as West Church, but the Presbytery declined e to approve of this name on the ground that, as it had just ...

... THE. SMALL-COAL MAN. The memory of Thomas Britton, biblioppole, ing chemist, musician, and small-coal man, should be¶cl 1kept green. amongst students of the social and 4 Ieconomic conditions of the 17th century, a period jA teeming, it need not be said, with foremost in- sto( terest. Tbis small-coal man's entity was unique, I , and so rema rk-able as to create suspicions that his! Bas IC muial ...

... LTTERS TO THE EDITO. Tr s' rJNlOF THE FREE AND V.P. Gt HURCHES. t 'e 1 tshie idst Glasgow, August 9, 1900, mac ?? your readers do not, . tied $'rce Church sessions in matters of legislation.; 4 ~ ~e proposasthat hav~e been adopted a 5e .P case the Acet of 1697, commonlY n~i t Acidopted in the United ?? with the - that Preabvtries are ~, in eaiingwith overtures remittedr * t, to giesessions ...

... i'S _ P' 5, _ ti M2 (From the Illustrated London N ews.4) as' The will, dated November 14, 1894, with `1 n three codicils. dated February 7 and December t} tss 13 and 15, 1899, of Mr William Coare Brockle- r; l: hurst, of Butley Hall, Prestbury, Cheshire, ft !- M.P. for Maccles5eld, 1386-80, and for the 20 Maccsiecld Division of Cheshire 1885-86, who S t died on June 3, was proved on August ...