... 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 ...

... THE ARNMENIAN ATROCITIES. PROTEST MEETING IN LONDON. .i- The Duke of Argyll presided last night at a public meeting held in St James's Hall '4 to protest against the fiendish atrocities perpetrated on Armenian Christians in Turkey, In addition to the mieinbers-of the committee there were present on the platform a large number of members of Parliament, including Sir John Leng, Sir Leonard ...

... I OU~R LONDON LTTERR. | 5 NEW BBID(q HSlB;EBT; 'eunday evening. la Nothing is being talked of in the clubs to-day -and they are crowded-except the resignation .of the Government. Lord .Sahsburyi in re- e sponse to the Queen's summons, will travel to Windstor to-morrow, but it is the general opinion that his lordship will refuse to take office y unless there is an appeal to the country. ?? is, ...

... ,TE AGED NPOOR AMMISS o : : ?? i ; : : i ?? . n/ , '7 : . , ?? , REPORT 1t]9&*3MWAS T09c a AMEMORiHDUb1 A E -PRINCE, d : . . ?? 'The raporte the Aoyal COm ir q . ?? upob itged pi-WdB iasuled,6iy&estrday. The Gemini ere hexpress the ?? at the outset that: no ; fundamental; l aierations' are needed ntik b existing ysystem of poor/law relief as it aftects tiheaged, andt i that it woaln /be ...

... AGRICULTURAL RIEIVA. (FROM A SPI`a1TL, CnsoxtiONDENT.)0 M It mast be very disappointiog to agricultilrists in m the. upper districts of tie conaty to havo to suffer R, from the effects of a freshl. snowstorm in thre end of at March. While in the ?? of Aberdeer PC yesterday there wore 9howers of Sleet and ?? or rain, Deeside was subjeoted to a Smart snowstorm.. in At tbis period of the year it ...

... I I IMPLEMENT TRIALS. On Saturday a large number of farmers and others attended, on the invitation of the Moray- shire Farmer Club, to witness the trial of several agricultural implements on the farm of Pans, near ELIgin. Mr James Black of Sheriffeton, the secre- tary, was present, and under hin direction the arrangements were carried out. The gentlemen present first inspected some work done ...