... 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 ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.f SIr,-This parish contained at the last census nearly30,000inhabitants, composed of tradesmen, shop- f keepers, clerks, artisans, and labourers, with their fami- lies, all deriving their livelihood from work in the docks or the engineering and shipbuilding establishments in thea nieighbourhood. The majority of these labourers are of the poorest class, and ...

... 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; ...

... 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 ...

... PRUSSIA ITA. t . , c | ~PRUSSIA AND -ITALYj. - I ?? (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) FLORENOE, DEo. 28. The following are additional despatohes from the. Italian Green Book: THE PRUSSIAN AMBASSADOR AT FLORENCE TO THE ITALIAN MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Florence, August 25. The undersigned, ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia, has the honour upon behalf ...

... I~~ ~ -1 - 1 IS IsAMERICAN COMMBRCE TO BE EXTIN- I ~~~GUISHED. Under the above heading the New York Times, of Dec. 17, virites as follows: e One of the most striking passages in the report of the Secretary of ther Teasury is that in which he demonstrates the effect of high duties upon raw material, in diminishing and almost destroying our once important business of ship and steamer building. ...

... MOR GEIT. (IeRQ'' 8- (J3)~POEflNDHNT.) ?? - I have o h-night service. often heardoftffernmofte folt curious to see werelike, but. neveryatteuded oflO, S o e matter to an old friend, a churchman, e said It is a sensational service ; anothbef iet d saiq, ?? Wktt a religious free-and-easy. Having resolved, nevertheless, to -go, I elected a Wesleyas ohaperin the west:central district,' did ...

... ?? ~ D B I N D.l ~ ~ I1 ?? 4, 5.p ~S'xnk-The'31dA i whi~i ~j§sCk, unwept o, Wand unihonoured, into its grave, le ,es Ireland bi pretty mnuch as it found her. Tvl*l2ite days of '65 hi witnessed the trial -and comriction of.thea- ...

... THE WEAKNESS OF THE VOL UNTEERS. I THE condition of the army and navy is being severely scrutinized, and there is another part of our defences which is equally deserving of attention' The 7 volunteers are a more or less effective body of 5O0,000 or 170,000 men; they are in receipt of Government money, and munitions; they are constantly flattered by the press and the War Office inspectors upon ...

... ?? The returns of the Board of Trade relating to T1 the acreage of land under crops, bare fallow, and ce grass, in the United Kingdomn, in the year 1866, 05 taken in conjunction with the census of live stock, published in May last, complete what we hope will l~a be the preliminary chapter to a regular and sYs- is ternatic account year by year of our statistics of 3( agriculture, for it is ...

... I (nEUTER'S TELEGOAM1S.) (Per the Moravian, vil Greencastle.) NEW YORK, DEc. 22, MORNING. president Johnson hits revoked the military order prohibitill corporal punishment in the department of the South, on the ground that it is an unwar- rantable interference with the civil laws. The Lower House of the South Carolina Legisla-, turo has rejected the constitutional amendment by 95 votes against ...