... [FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Teheran, October 1st, 1869. It will be over a month before this reaches you. We arrived here all safe, but the journey was very trying, and my companion was regularly done up. A ride of close on 300 miles under a burning sun, frighjtfully bad roads, and abominable horses, ,was enough to try the best constitution, but mine having been tried often under similar ...

... I The plan proposed by The Science and Art Depart- ment ' for the historic illustration of the art of mosaicu has had on un1fortunate commencement. The fac-eiesfe cotpy from 'the Figure of the Good Shelpherd selaed |amogst his Flock, which has reached South Kensiuto frcm FaVcuna, the authorities of the Musemn decline to exhibit, on the plea that the replica is badly executed. This famous ...

... J$pirlif 'af 14Z CAUSE AND CURE OF RELAPSING FEVER. The Weekly Times says, the cause of the disease so wisely described as Relapsing Fever is having nothing to eat. If nothing to eat be persevered in long enough, the stomach loses the faculty of digestion, and the poor victim not only relapses, but finally collapses altogether, and then there is an end of him. This charming state of things ...

... At WHO)LE FAMIILY BURNED TO DEBATLI, Oin thlie eeviling of Olirtm:½i Day a conslalble oif tle E l;jdijisi .n dincoverod tibit the ?? floor o N:o. ?? _ Sliiiditieh-street, th'ay'n ienlnizzd, itoasn lire. l[e at M S it lor the 'tleS iitlI 01 gilc s11, 1nn ihc CS'pa Ly Ir, tue iuiilln Jii.' pit1 ;iruil withinl Cilt Ir jtliiuite~. Th ;so ?? bl . PI',TMera ?? l LI Kiiillqs.s iii ' Ia i ii i iln teu ...

... OPINION IV THE, MORNING _OURiNALS. THE NEW YEAR ABROAD. The 7imes remarks that at no time since that mernobabie dawe when a virtual announce.:ment of ho-tili ies was implied in the compliments of the seasor; has the new year broken upon a world more free from all immediate apprehension of inter- na'ioi al misunderstandinsgs than it docs this day. 1 iis may partly be owing to the fact that ...

... I EMUENDLYSOCIBTYS AND DOCTORS' EXBO. A singular agitation, which in its results is likely to have ae important influence on friendly societies throughout the kingdom with respect to medical fees gaid for attendace on their members, has just been brought to a conclhsion at Preston. A few weeks ago, the gentlemen composing the Medical Society in that town resolved to raise the rate of ...

... I LEADINC A]IICIACTSS PACE. T111- I.:HADIMIIP OF Till,' CONSEYnV.IVI: P'AIITY IN TIII lll 0O S1 () ?? its d1i:i C.Iltius and prlobl, ili- ti sti joce isel oc'd ?? ?? ?? ?? 8 Tlll I LEGACI ES OF IS(;: i OCi:91i1iilll, Paperlsim, angry A nvuricn ?? ?? S U:Si.lAYS AND OCCASI(.ONAL, ART 'I('LES: CON.CEnATIVI. (til ISIIANry. --U thn e obstriitivenoss of rwligiole SuctmiL . . . 10 ?? : Aii, on ...

... CO R.RESPONDEENCE. | A PRACTICAL VIEW OF IRISH LAND REFORM.-I. To the EDITOR Of /Ihe PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-The discussion of the Irish land question appears to have now reached a stage at which it would be useful to advance from general principles to their practical application. The public perceives that the situation of the Irish tenantry, over at least a large portion of the country, ...

... R EP A AbA II O N U O It W R O E C -F UL CYCYVICTIOCNS. It oursht to be some consolato to t.3he legal ?? of (id Mfatchless (as lde tharm. used to c'all tour' ageed Constitution. whenever he -was out of temper -With its obsolete wavs) to filnd that its younger brethren and, rivals fiil notw and theni into th.4e same sF ste of pnludilarv, Ouit o0- which there is provided no Kchtlnueccl Ot ...

... THE ATROCIOU.1 OUTRGE AT EWVELLi. cet An (SUBJECT 01' jLrnSTIUTtlON.) et A xtraordinalry trageIN Ak plce al n ,de 'to day morning, lasit wee tbil .Amnnmled t is iceLchtl0 o soin. I IIontIhs, jand e'la left lioni, to ?? ststie~t. t ere wei aso ilin inl the t ?? inl.etil Itln opn' ortert be ?? Smithaote nsiiviiSono' w eud'it. hi I1`uggeft came onta[vi lyteatriaoial'5O LIt he iihand his strange ...

... I THE MIARlQUIS OF WESTMEN-STERS llIrlL. I The 111sfrof(ed NewVS states that the personalty Of the late Marquis of Westmiuster was sworn under X800,000 'The will is dated April 17, 1867, with five codicil, the list dated Aug. 31, 18o8, and his lordship died at 1Foutlill, WVilts, Oct. 01, ISOP0, aged seventy-four, leaviu1g two son, and eight danugbters. The bequeests are nulnicrous ant latrgc. ...

... | THED? cacMqVEMNIOIAL COUNOIL. .1 , I (sAuo ?? ssnorn crowmmn.) RoME, LD. 20. The Christmas celebrations have passed off with the usual magnificence, and something more than the usual thronging of all classes at the two great basilicas, St. Peter's and St. Maria -Maggiore, where they are most attractive. At the Grand Vespers, in St. Peter's, on the 24th, the Pope was carried on the portative ...