MEETiNG OF THE SOUTHERN WARDS. A meeting of the l1th, Iltb, 12th, and 13th Municipal Wards, called by requisition, was held last night 14 Buccleueb Strqbt Hall, for the purpose of taking into consideratiots the- ord Advocate's -Annuity-tax Bill, espegially sot far as the interes

RAILWAY ACCIDENT-MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. In the Herald of Saturday we published a short statement regarding the accident which had taken place on the previous day at the Kirkpatrick Station of the Caledonian Railway. The Dumif ries Crourier of yesterday adds the following:- "In refere

.7 1 - d . , I I _ . . . L. -:Observations on Sensations experienced while Climbing the' More ?? s of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia. c By Mathie Hamilton, M.D., formerly Medical Officer to c] the London, Potosi, and Peruvian Mining Company. Physician to -Military' W-ospitals in

IWe take the following from the Tips of yesterday, which indirectly refers to the great calamity in this sity in 1857. The special case of the Liquidators v. the Directors of the Western Bank, is novi before our law courts, and, therefore, not a fitting subject of comment. But w

AYR-FxR. 28. - , ,_ . THE SToaM.-* AS we yesterday anticipated, the very severe storm that then raged along the Frith of Clyde did not 1as- over without leaving melancholy and disastrous effects be- bind. At Irvine the moatserious casualty occurred. About eleven o'clock forenoon

GLLSGtOW, -FEBBUiARY 29. TltANSFER ConRT.-Yesterday the Magistrates held a Court for the Transfer of Publicans' Licenses; pre- ?? Clouston, Brown, Gemmill, Fowler, Wilson, and Whyte, There were 57 applications for transfers, of which 44 were granted and 13 refused. A number of br

LIR a -r 11 t f S. LUT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHl] LIVERPOOL CORN. MARKET-YESTERDAY. Market remains quiet and" unchanged in tone since Friday; quotations iominally tlie %same; attendance moderate. ' ' ' ; SECOND ICEPORT. Market steady; moderate trade in wheat, at, jul prices of Friday l

A. SENSELESS HOAX. A ClERGYMIAN THE-VICTIM OP PRACTICAL JOKING. (From the Liverpool Mercury.) The Rector of Warrington, the Rev. W. Queckett, was Eoh. Saturday made the object of the unpleasant attention of some of his parishioners. -Early in the morning the shop- keepers of the

(From KitcheC's Steam-Shipping Journal.) Mr. W. S. Lindsay, in the House of Commons, speaking on the question raised by Sir C, Napier on manning the Navy, remarked that the evidence taken before the Cons. missioners, of which he was one, showed that while a vast deal had been do

. JOHNSTONL. I' Nlr ?? Tn --EEXVG *OF COMMISSIONERVS. On Monday evening a general meeting of the Commis- tc eioners of Police for the burgh of Johnstone was held in the it Board Rooms-Provost Shanks in the chair. The minutes of last meeting wnvere read and confirmed. The report o