... A NEW YEAR'S TALE OP ST. MART RKDCLIFF. Br rob H. Selkirk.. December *m drawing close. Darkness had long overspread the earth, and the only light that illumined a large bare apartment in a house situated one ef the lowest parts of Bristol was the flame springing occasionally from a few coals lying in the grate. The three windows were gaunt in their black nakedness, relieved only here and there ...

... |St[istot SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1870. The year which will closc before this sheet reaches the reader will long be remarkable in our domestic history for its brilliant inauguration of a new political period. A twelvemonth ago a House of Commons had just been elected under the then untried system of household suffrage : and much anxiety was felt or assumed timid and reactionary jwliticians ...

... Week ending Corresponding Dec. 1889. week in 1868. Bristol and Exeter (miles open) in 1809, ;in 1888,1345). TOSI •• 66,1 Brecon and Merthyr 1107 991 Caledonian 38.988 .. 36,519 1827 .. 1795 Great Eastern 43,548 45,370 Great Northern 41,341 39,552 Great Western 84,083 - 78,635 London and Brighton 24,527 .. 25,021 London, Chatham, and Dover . 11,729 12,262 London and North Western 127,265 ...

... FRANCE. Paris, Tuesday.—The Official Journal announces that all the ministers have tendered their resignation to the 1 Emperor, which has been accepted. The ministers now only remain to carry on the business State until their successors have been appointed The Emperor has written the following letter, dated the 27th, to M. Emile Ollivier 11 Sir—Ministers having given in their resignation, I . ...

... pi* Amberley has been among the recent presentations the subscriptions the Faraday Monument Fund, received up 1 December 7. amount to £14,000. The object the fund is to provide public memorial to Faraday. Mr. Chisholm Anstey, who, as temporary Judge in the High , Court of Bombay, proved so great a terror to evil doers, will | return to India next month.—Scotsman. [Mr. Anstey will be long ...

... Another contribution to the Byron mystery has appeared. The title of tue book (edited by Charles Mackay) Medora Leigh; History and an AatT biography, and it advertised as a vindication of Lord Byron. Part 1., saw the Saturday Review, is introductory, and entirely the editor's. This consists Bfi pages, and is merely the repetition of the usual stock arguments for Lord Byron and against Lady ...

... On Wednesday last sad tragedy took place at Cheltenham, resulting in the loss of the lives of two persons, from the effects of charcoal. It would appear that some few weeks ago, in consequence of the death of a Mr. Fluck, a greengrocer, who has for many years carried on business at 98. Winchcomb-street, a married couple named Charles and Harriet Weller, who, it is said, were previously in ...

... have now sent in their reports. The decisions of the Commissioners, it is said, are in favour the disfranchisement of Bridgwater ana Beverley ; but Norwich, this time, escapes the doom. The birthdays of two remarkable men oocurred this Mr. Gladstone was born Liverpool, December 29th, 1809, and his predecessor in office, Mr. Disraeli, was born London, Deoember 31st, 1805. feloniously using an ...

... Volunteers' Annual Dinner.- The dinner annually given by C&pt. Dickinson, M.P., to the Company took place on Wednesday evening, at the Cuni-hall. About ISO rat down, under the presidency of the gallant captain, and the company Included sevend invited guests. The I.ord Lieutenant challenge cup, won last year by this corps, graced the table. Major Robertson and Lieut Foster, who were among the ...

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