CURIOUS CASE UNDER THE TWEED IFISHERIES ACTS. At the Selkirk Sheriff Court yesterday-Sheriff- Substitute Spittal on the bench-a young mill- worker, nanmed William Melrose, was charged. with contravening section GS of the Tweed Fisheries kgt, 1857, by being on ground adjacent I to

LETBj' TO TRBa EDITOR BLASTING IN COAL MINES. 39 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, Londoz,, W., Febrxary-25, 1889. ii Sm,-Referring tc, the notice of above regarding tk successful experiments with water cartridges icn I your issue of 16th iast., the Nobel's Explosives c, Company

SCOTTISH TRADE PROTWX3n1'71- SOCIETY, The report of the directors oi this society, to be submitted to the 34th annual mneeting on 5th February, has just been issued. The directors are pleased to observe that notwithstanding the general depression of trade the usefulness and prosp

The folow.lng i3 the return frora the BaTnk ol lngland ov It the week ending Wed e3diy. February 17, 13 6:- JessUi DcPsrLarnsec-r. Notes ?? £37,320,190 ?? debt £11,015,100 Other 3ecuritio... 4,734,S0C Gold ccin and bulion.. 21,570,190 TatiLe ?? ?? Totl ?? £37.320.1Q B-rscrs-t Dr

GLASGOW SEIPOWN-ERS' ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of the Glasgow Shipowners' I Association was held in the Directors' Room of the Mt ercharnts' House ?? Alex. All an, chairman, presiding. The report for the year ending 5slt Deeember contained references to the Royal Commission

THE PROGRESS OF THE WOREING CLASSE z. At the meeting or the Statistical ?? last . night, in the Royal School of Mines, London, Dr Giffeu, of the Board of Trade, coutributed'- " Further Notes on the Progress of the Working Classes ia the Last Half Century." It will be remembered t

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BRITAIN AND THE KUEDZVE. The followiog correspondence respecting the presentation to his Higuness the Khedive of Egypt of the resolutions passed by the House of Lords on the 12ht of August, 1885, has been presented to Parliament:- The Marquess of Salisbury to MA Egerl ot . ~"Fore

PaLO This Dayis PSerieisd, 1?0 RP. BS W E R L, I Jy ALEX iN ESHAN1) Author of " Against. Time."Ltesf'nW trlad"ba WBLACKWOOD & SO.%S. Editnburh and London. ENIGLIOSXIREJ&1)BR This Day is Published- 1-TliiOEBES. IBp Professor: Osou~ RonEr~sop, ?? Professyr of Philoso~phy ?? in -Uti

IMPERIAL PARLAUE.N'T. HOUSE OF LOEDSU-TURSDAY. The LOnoD-CguicrmoR took his seat on the Woolsack at a quarter-past four o'clock. The Marquis of SALIS;BURY said-I under- stand it is wished that ths H1ouse should adjiour-n until Alondav, but there is judicial business which will ma