... DECLARATION Or THE MEDICAL PRO. FESSION ABOUT ALCOHOL. A very important manifesto: in regard to the use of alcohol in different formnn, and especialy for medi- cinal puipses, has been drawn lip and signed by the leading men of the modical profession. This man- festo is intended to etreangthen the hands of the Government in any attempt they may be disposad to make to restrict the Wsle of ...

... THE LlEE OF CHARISM DICK l NS. [SrcorN ARTIf'E.,] Our last extra-ts left Charles Djckens, aged atowt twelve, learning in the hard sehool of early tuil, i u ncongenial company, Iess~ns which ho ia4 good use of in after life. No reader oi his auto- biographic sketch of his boyish experience in the blacking warehohse -can fail to see how 'minutely .his on experiences were worked. iip in his ...

... I .i>bapriv~ioj jnejenibf th'love. ? 8t r t ?? fromt1he adion izr o Ealth, was readp-Ooseley, Decemberr- I871. To the Local Board of'iOwiaertedgdey. -Yoiir Ieatloa Oficer' respect. fully reports that, considering the great difiloulty attend- ingall sanitaryreformsin thisditriot'byreasonof eytonsive mining operations, &o., and the numerous small tenements grouped together in, cluswers, ...

... ?? Otffl :@Vatht. FRtIDAY, D)EdEMBER IS, IS71. ISHOOL BOARDS. l School Boards are new things; new to the i world; new to themselves. Most of them came into being about a year ago, and they have been talking ever since. They could . speak directly they were born, and they can speak now. The newspapers devote columns b to their speeches, which are sometimes of great length, though not of great ...

... I - WORKS COMMITThE,-A meeting of this committee was held on Friday afternoon at the Town Hall; Ald. Chapman presiding, The minutes of the Streets and Lighting Sub-committee was confirmed, with the exception of that portion of the minutes referring to the plans presented by Mr. Woodhouse, for certain houses on the Hedon-road. A letter was read from Colonel Francis, the manager to the Hull ...

... CROMIAR, UPPER DEE, AND DONSIDE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. Tisa memrbers of this Association held their second monthly lu meeting in the Court House, Tarland, on Thursday last, 10 Sir John F. Clark, Bart., of Tillypronie, in the chair. Among 8tk those ipresent were-Dr Robertson of Hopewell; Duncan 8tk Roeton a., yr. of Hopewell ; Lioit.' Gordon, RN. 8th Messrs Ross, banker; Douglass, Culsh ; ...

... In tb It SOeNTIFIc men have been doing their best to discover J t. the sanitary arrangements in Londesborough Lodge m B- and Sandringham, and in the London journaIs much tV C. discussion has been going on, on the effect of the in- u i- halation of the gases from putresoent matter in pro- a e. ducing enteric fever. P e- In so far as regards the latter question, it is difficult t] n probably to ...

... THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN EBErumJ (rXOX OU Oi'oh. eooSnnSWmInT.) VRUSS3ELB Txrummuy NXorT. To-day has not been a success in any sense of the word, either for the Ministerial party or for the Opposition. It was confidently expected that the demonstrations in the presence of :Royalty would have been so decisive that his Majesty would have felt himself compelled to bring the crisis to goina end or ...

... A 6UBN IN 2'Tha NBW OUT. For the last few months the Vestry Board of St. Mary's, Lambeth, has had under its consideration the best way of abolishing Sunday trading in the parish, but more especially in ths Lower anld Upper Marsh, corm. monly known as the New Cut, and two letters were written by hr. Roffey, the Vestry Clerk, by order of the Board, to Colonel Henderson, the Chief ...

... DEiS TBUCT'XVPB FIRB IN R0 T.ERHITHE. A fire, involving the loss of property amount- N ing to 400,000., broke out at a few minutes before five o'clock yesterday morning, on the promises of Messrs. d Mellersh and Jolliffe, phosphate manure manufaoturersC Bull Head Wharf, Rotharhithe, lying eastward of Bull S Head Dock. Messrs. Mellereh's premices covered an ax- C tent of from 80 to 100 feet ...

... OF TE PRINCE OF WALESI GREAT IMPROVEMENT. CONTINUED TRANQUILLITY. THIS MORNING'S OFFICIAL BULLETIN. LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. The following official bulletins in reference to tse state of his Royal Highness the Prince of .Wales were issued yesterday: S Sandringham, Dec. 14, 1 a.m. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales con- tinues to be restless. (Signed) 4 WILLIAM J1iNNER., M.D. WILLIAM ...

... ITE E^,FlING d MONARCHISTS AD m D I ODG(ER. TO TInM ED0n OF r7M DAILT :M. Snt,-As the short ?? given in the daily papers of what transpired at Reading on Wednesday last Is in some respects inaccurate, and does not give some of the most important faot, I feel it my duty tocupply those defoiiehicies. I had been speaking for half an hour to an orderly and quiet audience, when suddenly a window ...