... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... BUR-NED AT SEA. 'T'he following report has been received at the Board of Trade from Captain Edward Dean, late commander of the ship Chimborazo, detailing the circumstances of the destruction of his ship by firi e- The Chimborazo was 500 tons burden. She bo- longed to Liverpool, and sailed from Swansea for Coquimbo (Chili) on the 6th of July last, wvithl 600 ions of coal aid 30 tons of iron, ...

... I THE GREAT FIRE AT THE I TE CRYSTAL PALAC-.. - . The conflagration which took place on Sunday I at the Crystal Palace caused a considerable amount of destruction both to the building ibself and to so ...

... I ?? (FROM OUR OWN CaORESPOSDENr.) [A portion of the following appeared in our Evening EditionL of yesterday :] Ediionof e~trd~:] PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The stories, those of the Moniteur included, about the progress of M. Tonello's mission at Rome must be received with the greatest reserve. All this while the Pope has only seen him once. Cardinal Antonelli has not seen him since the Saturday ...

... VO:RLD'S END PROPHECIES. A comaespondent of the Carlisle Exaretznei thus Sums lip the prophecies which have been current in various ages regarding the end of the world:- 3. The Jews had au ancient doctrine, that the world will last 6000 years-2000 before the Law, 2000 ander the Law, andt 2000 under the Gospel. 2. There was a time when the duration of the World was thought to be bound up with ...

... r OLD GLASGOWN DIRECTorIES. To the Editor of the Glasgozv Herald. SiB,--Some remarks having appeared in the newns- papers regarding the comparative antiquity of the na early Glasgow Directories, more especially in con- fxc nection with a very recent re-print of one by Jones, ha for 1789, perhaps it may not be uninteresting shortly pe to review the order of these useful local recordsb. i.n The ...

... I - , - -BAST INDIAN BAILWAY. . . ' 'I I! I a .The nineteenth half-yearly meeting ot tbhiacorn- ~pI.5y. ue~bed.yesterday at the Londosi Tavern; Kr., t .W CgAW~ld , jlp. in the bhaias. !Me report of tjie Ra dietos ~An btac fwli hai been publishiled, Was aaias rea ?? The C14AIR MAN 'said hd ivas 'lad to be able to congratis late the shareholders utpon thei-comipany's affairs. The largest of; ...

... Ott ?dfast felu-Ndtfr. (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: TUESDAY, JAN. 1, 1867. SoM mefurtherdetails are given ill reference to the fire at the Crystal Palace. The damage done is very extensive in itself, but not sogreatas tohave prevented the Palace from being open for the Christmas entertainments yesterday. No expla- nation is yet given of the cause of the fire. It is stated that the yachts ...

... R O- M- U---R - -O-R-RPO- -N - TF'ROM OURS LOND)ON CORARESPONDENT. LONDON, Monday. - 'llc ?? jonnals are swvainped with SUm- maxuics of the pakssing year. From long fnmiliarity with 1lees wonderful productions, 1 am disposed to think that lbey serv no liseful purpose. Forced to deal in generali- ties, they lack precision of statement, cud very rarely trouble theimselves wvith dates. Often, ...

... THE QUEEN AND THE, AMERICAN YACHTS. On Friday evening a special messenger arrived from Osborne House with an invitation from her f Majesty to the owners, captains, and.principal a officers of the Henr ...

... If the past is tie parent: of the future, we vrisk little in ?? that the great' and ?? changes whr hsignalised 1866 will i'qar fruit ill another eventfil year., Specific ...