... One-half of the town of the Dardanelles has destroyed hv fire. At half-past eleven a.m. the October the fire commenced in the Oreek quarter, gale of wind from the north-east Mowing the time. Although it was early in the day, and ',J,OOO Turkish troops, with twelve fire engines, were the siMJt soon as the alarm was given, it was impossible stop the ravages of the all consuming element, and ...

... ( From Punch's Pocket-hook.) lately visited one of (he scenes of our youth. It was formerly a farmyard. found it strangely altered. a distance took for a factory: where stacks hay had stood formerly, there were now only stacks chimneys, and ricks were replaced by gasometers. A dense cloud hung over the spot; and on our nearer approach, instead of the old familiar cackling, quacking, crowing, ...