... w. nociavor.-p ON T31E FALLIH |M: Henri flechofort has ?? the followM1,, preface to a nlew Odition et his i-nicrav, :_ Before puhlishina in my cvwn country, f,,r whi, they were written, tlhese pa3 g es ?? ale i5 abroad, wvhlere for mnore ?? a year, dally Iy (dI- l'ket a jonrnal of our igntuminy-a ineinoijll the iniquities of the TEimire-I have to 11,11;1iilt myself before the public, and ...

... Y5AUUL AND FATAL RAILWAY ACOI- iDXT * Au accident occurred on Monday on the Great Northern line whereby eight persons were at onos kllert, and many more severely injured. . In t~ is case, happily, the catastrophe is not due to any default of engi re-dAvers, guards, signal men, or want of due care in the arrangement of the traffic, bu; to a casualty againszt which human f.reaight or prudence ...

... THIE NEEW YEAR TO G]I R- MANY. 'I ne war in France has passed 'into a, ne' pim' tac-ording to the confession of the, Kink cf iprissia, but it is a phase which he is irncapabh 0 ,,laizistg beyond the brute idea of the soldier ?? fe. The world has prepared one phase el thought, and General Trochu has pr'pared ar- otlher phase of action; and thought, and actior eul~l lJ promise new campaigns ...

... *_FEMALE EDICA .5OCIETY'S APPEAL. To iTrUDior, -Srs-As you bave' always advocsted Qurcause, perhapa0you win help us Iin our work of charity, wbioh we saiveno fundi of tbesoe*fy to'do, Our, ladies instituted lpstieb~iitmas s Mate rnity cltarity. 5o. g ve gratuitous attendance to-the poor'at theiroown hounelat the abjeot poverty~they meet with isfearfuL; no one can' have a conception of iT ...

... The rector of Merthyr Tvdvil, who preached at St. David's on Christmas-day, and took for his' text Isaiah xi. 6, said :-The age they lived in seemed to be rolled back into the very middle of the dark ages. Men were raging one against another, as though they were devils-tearing and killing each other with a. degree of hatred as if Jesus had never been born, At the bead of all this was an old, ...

... TEE RECENT SORTDr PROM pA3SS. I - I ~Lo _ . n nf L ALA P-41 A correspondent at the Saxon camp oetrerariw thus describes the recent sortie, in a letter dated Dec. We have Lad a sortie on a very extended secale. It has kept a large German army employed throughout two nights and two dKms, in dreadfully inclement weather, lut its immediate results are very small as compared with the men and ...

... NISCELLANEOUR Falmouth has again been visited by-a destructive fire. The damage is estimated at 20,0001. The Yorkshire Gerette states that Mr. J. P. Brown- Westhead, M.P. for York city, is about to resign his seat on account of bad health. The Independance JeZge states that Count Bismark has asked the Swiss Government to maintain its neutrality with greater energy. The brig Norden, of Russian ...

... THe S R4P BOOK COLUMN. A V1IaX OF Tzi LABsTHr-the lbad was` no doubt verydull' and quite unfitted for a&'oldier; but alittle seasonable blindness, and a word or twoof encourage- ment on the part of a non-bonmissionedofficer,'would have worked a wonderful' effeiot. But this 'srgeant, from the hour tbe recruit got out of his civilian's clothes, badgered and bullied him incessantly. He never ...

... ICU.INGS FROM THE COMIC JORNALA. * ?? Punch.) TiE WORST KIND OF CosUNDRUL-Riddling with. onnon'ahot. THE 'BEST SHA7cE IN A FARX-The plough-share. CHRIbTnA TELEGRAM FEOM JOHN BeLa, ildQ, To WE ANERICAN7 PfSDNT :-Grant U. S. Peace. A SELL.-(We 've all got our little weaknesses, Brown's little weakness is this: When he and Mrs. Brown Ita eahnner party, they do it In style; and he naturally ...

... ABRoAD. It is true that eharity abouldhbegia at home; and that those wbo do their duty to their leighbours are more estimable citizens than the lovers of aniukind who forget the poor relation, but are all melting tenderness when the moral darirness of an Indian tribe is under ponsideration. The Mrs. Jellabys are many Lu the midst of us. Crowds of ladies are to be found who will play heroic ...

... THE NEW YelR, IS7I. When the sun rose on the now departed year, 1870, these words were recorded by our peo in the columns of 'Ihe Era:- NAPOLEON III. has no bed of roses: This 1870 will be evehtful to him, as to England. The present year will try the strength of more thrones than one. Without pretending to the prophetic insight of a ZADRIIL, we perceived coming events were casting their ...

... On Sunday, a few minutes before midday, a most melancholy accident occurred to a man na'ned Thomas Young while he was eliding on the River Wear at Dur- ham. Young had got on to the iee near the Baths. bridge, and had skated across the racecourse side, round the bend below the Ash Tree. On eoming near the mouth of the stream he was seen by some lads on the north side to cross towards the ...