... The vital statistics of the Punjaub, collected by Dr. Dallas, Inspector-General of Dispensaries, and given in the Homeward Mail, are one more instance of the futility of mere figures. They have been got up quite en rogle by the district officers, through the village police. The people gave information very readily. And yet the death rate through the whole country figures as only 1.71 per ...

... PERFIDIOUS ENGLAND IN TURKEY THERE never was the least occasion to take any serious notice of that charge of territorial ambition in Turkey which the Russians thought fit to throw in our teeth the other day as being so notorious. Its author, being official, must necessarily have written with the most entire and profound disbelief in such an accusation, and only brought it forward for certain ...

... THE CONFEDERA TION OF BRITISH NOR TH A MERI CA. WE learn that the scheme of Confederation between the provinces of British North America has at length assumed a definite shape; but a shape very much narrowed from the original designs of the Unionist party. Many difficulties have been encountered, and the scope of the measure now about to be announced will include a solution of just those which ...

... z A JOURNALISTIC CATASTROPUE.-The Glasgow Mail ?? incident occurred in connection with the printing of our paper of Monday which we imagine is umparalleled in the annals of the press. A cat bad en- sconced herself in the large cylinder of the four-feeder Hoe printing machine employed to throw off the first side of our impression. Before starting a machine of -this-sort there is considerable ...

... I THE C0OLLIRY .XPLOSION' ;YEAxBERNStr.!I I B - R i i i i Jz :. Y: ?? B4BWSLEY, MowA.x The adjourned inquest tan fifteen o.,the bodies recovered from the Oaks Colliery was resumed this morn- ing before Mr. T. Taylor, coroner for the Wakefield did. e trict, in the Barissley Court-house. Mr. Vernon Black- C burn, bar-ister appeared on behalf of the proprietors of a the colliery; *Dir. BKenyon ...

... I REUCTINSIN~THFlEITALTJTANjJU~.RVXY,~. ?? General Cugia, the Italian Minister of War, has addressed the following report to the King, under date 6th January, upon the reductions which the ministry propose to effect in the army: Sire,-Your Mcifesiyis aware that the Administration of War, in fixing the presumptive budget for 1866, was guided by the principle of the strictest economy, the ...

... The crowds who visited the Crystal Palace yes- i terday coulld hardly realise the fact that on theE previous day a great fire had destroyed a large and v-aluable p(rtiofl of the building unless they went up to the north end, and were permittedto peep r through the screen by the police. It will be re- E xllemlbered that this screen, or bed tick' as it was i contemptuously called, was loudly ...

... BANK OF ENGLAND VOLUNTEEBS. 're e; The presentation of prizes awarded by the Bank ng of England Rifle Association to the successful competitors et during the past year took place in the Bank Parlour on he the afternoon of the 2nd inst.; Captain J. P. CuRRiE, pre- a sident of the association and director of the Bank of Eng- he land, being inh e e chair; Mr. EL L. Holland, the gover- t nor of ...

... 4 ?? D'IEFENEB . ' - - , 7 ' 0i a )s j 1F THE DAY NMS. Ssn,-As it is very evident that at present the country will, neither adopt the conscription of Francee nor the Landwehr of Prussia, nor, in fact, any system of national defence that involves 'the absor~ption of a lage part of the population from the remunerative occupations of civil life for any considerable length of time, it becomes a ...

... THENOERTH S AFOSDS 1RE COLLIERY I The deposition of evidence in the case of the North Staffordshire Colliery Explos'on having been virtu- ally comnmpleted, we are enabled to arrive at a tolerably cor- rect judgment asi to the origin of the calamity-the existence of a dangerous accumulation of gas and the igni- tion of the deadly compound. It appears, then, that the explosion took place in what ...

... Mr. Walpole, Secretary of State for the H -c Department, was waited upon yesterday by a deputya of the Harveian Society of London, Dr. Tyler Smith, - sident, to procure some legislation by which the cnn. ; infanticide might be lessened. Dr. DRYSDALE read the recommendations of the cm. mittee, the principal of which ?? the registran of all births should be compulsory. That all still-711 ...

... |THE LANOASTZE ELECTION CoMMISSION. | LANCASTER, THUoStDAY. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the existence of bribery and corrupt practices at elections for this borougholosed, their investigation yesterday. Very little evidence in addition to that contained in our yester- day's parcel was given. ' George Storey, a painter and non-elector, said he received 51. from Mr. 'Isaac ...