... THE SBRAP.BOOK COLUMN. A GHOST STORY.-Derlng the Amerla wrw officers Of rank were seated in their tent, and del taking their supper till a brother officer, theabsent upon a foraging party, should return. Thcirpana wns well-nigh exhausted, and they were about, t.t ?? their meal, concluding soetsnlbadea. curred to detain the party, when suddenly ni wc. . known footstep was heard approaching. ...

... LATEST BLECTRIC NEWSI * 'THOUGH EUTES' AG CY,] HUNGARY.' * - PETH, .Thursday. In yesterday's sitting of the Austrian Delegation the debate on the budget of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs was resumed. All tbe clausea were voted in ronformity with the propositions of the committee. The sere service ro'oney as 'likewise voted, as pro.. posed bg the committee, after a waman discussion, in 'Whieb ...

... :MR FOi TE!AT.B$ADfl D. The Right Hon. B..Forsteir. eice presidenr of the Coinmittee 9f the, Councilj lddreased a derssely.- crowde. -meeting of hi' coustituesits in:. the St.9; Georgois-hall, Bradford, ow Moidivy evenig. ,Th iglit- hbn .gentleman, who wai very warmlirecoivqd,'., .said:,4a.ving the h6nbusrnOw't& hold the office of. a Cabirel Mipister, he could njt addreis constitiauts ...

... .L napth By the arrival of the steamer Saxon with the Cape mails on Friday, we learn that the diamond discoveries on the banks of the Vaal continued progressing very favourably, and crowds of persons were emigrating to the diamond fields. A revolution bad taken place among the rulers of the Diamantine Provisional Re- public, formed in the west of Klipdrift side of the Vaal. Taxatinn bad been ...

... THE PlmLIC HkUILI, I Vrom the- ?? weeekiy retui, wie .learnthatdouing the week ending'Shtiirday, the 14th ost,, 5,0501 birthfsand 4,413 de&tba'iwere;registered ; in Londonland 19 other largg cities and towns of Jthe ?? Eingtlom; .and the a ~regate ruor~tality of the ;u4ehk' iwakjn the ratie of 31deaths ae nualljto ovdy, '1jOW'of the~present'estiknltted popula~tibe. ?? ?? ' T ?? rates of ...

... Tiw2TY-suVRN KIxLS AwD ELVETINJURCD. Abont midnight on Tuesdav a lamentably destruc- tive explosion took place .at the Benshaw-pRrk col. Uery; belongingto Mlessros. J. and. G. Wells. For ?? has enjoyed an en- viable immunity from disastrous exploslons, although in South Yorkshire they bad been both frequent and frightfully destructive of life and property. tenshaw- park is situated about eight ...

... : ; * THE ATTACK ON MONT AVRON. A detailed account of the attack on Mont Avron last week comes from the Times' correspondent at the Saxon headquarters. On the 27th he wrote:- Amid fog. and snow, and frost of many degrees, the Germanscommencedtheiroffensive movement against the French forts this morning. Thirteen was the number of batteries %vith which it had been decided to cdmnjence ...

... It is for anew Poland-a Poland in Western Europe-that the Germans are fighting in the North, the South, andthe East of France; and are battering Paris and killing the sick lying in bospitals. Sir Charles Dilke, in the course of his address to his constituents the other night, testified, after recent personal examina- tion, to the fact that Alsace is, to the back- bone, French. At the same time ...

... n - Io- ., -ITALY.-ig; co Eniane pi a Buddeki viali to Rome on Saturday evening. Ho wvas received by all the public authorities of the city, which va~s immnediately illuminated. The crowd was loud in its applause, aud called for the Kying to appear on the balcony of the Quirinal. His Majesty left the city on Sun day-morning amid enthusitatic demnstrations lon he part of the inhabitants. During ...

... *_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, ...

... IEP;ToME'-OFFRIGm AN lE NEW - o,- ?? of I LORD NAEB ha.acappted an eenaui ordinary period of bid Gooernmenlt, and will *emalrs Tm emr C~at wao~N, from Saigon for IHongKong, has been ?? infthe China Sess. Only part of hecrw ter sved. lThEEttt~enwdereot8Mvessrs. Spirs.and Pond baa been accepted fo the. supP1iY f refreshments. at ..the. International exhibitien of 1871. TBE ASEEREES. a wild Arab ...