... AND M!D-LOTHIAN R[FLlE -ASSOCUATION. z FBrnAi, Ot t.18-SCOND DAY. The shooting was limited to two competitions in the Hua ter's Bog. The principal competition was at 200 and fl0 yards, tive rounds at eadh, for the following poizees -lst, Lord Provost's cup; ...

... oases were sadly disfigured, and the inijuries seemed to have been causgd either by falls on the stairs, or from the heavy clogs of other victims who I-bad been thrown or had jumped down upon them, -death being caused in most instances by suffocation; ...

... model farms or at industrial schools, where capital and all the appliances necessary for high farming aro supplied in abuin- dance, are utter]y worthless as evidence as to the circumstanece of the ordinary run of small farmers either in Ireland or elsewhere ...

... France which will by-and-bye put forward their claims. Why should they not whenever they feel the effects of t foreign competition? They have as good a right to a pull at the pagoda-protection tree as the sugar refiners, the shipbuilders, .and the shipowners ...

... opportunity of express- ing its opinion. There seems to us no par- ~t~aular Mas why the last days of the: session should be clogged with a measure I that Lord Hartington must feel can hardly be passed unless the session is to be indefinitely l prolonged ...

... Joyal and Western Infirmaries came off last evening in the St Andrew's Halls with great ediat. About 1150 ladies and gentlemen danced, and there were in addition some 350 spectators. It is eapect ed that about £2a' will be realised for the In- firmaries. ...

... Saturday expresses the same wish, emphasises the need of them, and shows clearly how comparatively worthless bursaries are when clogged with conditions that remove them l from the category of rewvards of merit. Eleven years ago this subject was brought prominently ...

... Civil Service under athe competition system, of whom 111 are still in Ithe service, 15 have died, and 6 retired (ride The Indian Civil Service, 1880, by A. C. Tug Ben. ?? In regard to the charges of inabilitl to ride, dance, and control the destinies ...

... Scottish National Rife Association. To this .sumn £50 will be added by the association, and .a competition established to be called the City Lof Glasgow Competition in connection with the Corporation Challenge Vase. On a recommnen- .dation by the Gas Committee ...

... point of the bayonet by the police, and in the struggle a civilian was stabbed and a policeman wounded. The third annual competition for the challenge cup presented by Lieutenant-Colonel Forrester took place at Nitshill on Saturday. This event i is open ...

... The second portion of the evening was given up exclusively to sketches in charac- ter, the never - failing banjo songs, clog dances and stump oration, and an amusing plantation scene. ASTRONOSUcAr NOTES.-During January the planet best placed for observation ...

... f or two cheddar beheoso,netuseder5Slb, lot prize, silvercens; 2d, barometer lpresented by Sxr . Collins, merchast, Cstle-Danc.lcs); 3d, il o:4th, Li; 0th, lies(givenlby the socierol. 163 ostrics-) -1st. J. C. Ce~iieinebams of ,Dueragit: 3d, James YAdam ...