... ILRTTBR.S' To. TfU Fu ?? r Zetters to. the Etditor cannot .e inset ted ezcept e, iehei t~en are aut zentecatal' by the nance and: o. address of the writer-ndg necessarit forvpub- icatioin, but as a guarantee of gooc faitih . - oeondents are 'requested to 'smite only on. one s 0f the pvape:- We earnot undertake to return rejected Com- , ncunicagion& THE GLASGOW TRAU1VAYS.'; SIB,-The Three ...

... I OUR LONDON -ORRIEUONDENCE. MR FORSTER AND THE ENGLISH NONCONFORMISTS, Monday Evening. I HAD recently occasion to inform you of the fact that an important conference was held in .London between Mr Forster and the chief repre- 1entatives of the Nonconformist party on the question of education. I stated at the time that Mr Forster, on behalf of the Government, had resolutely refused to concede ...

... SIMON, SIOGKET, GUIZOT, MIICIELET, AND HENAN. A correspondent of the Daily TelegrapIA who has attended a meeting of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, in Paris, gives sketches of several of the more promninent mem- bers :-First (he says) comes the president for the day, M: Jules Simon, the Minister of Public Instruction. But Jules Simon had won fame as a man of letters before he ...

... * The Emperor of Austria was to deliver his speech from the throne to-day. it Was expected also that the estimates for 1S72 would be presented to the Lower H-ouse of the Reicbsrath. A telegram of last night says that, according to these estimates, the expenditure will amount to 359,380,933 florins, and the revenue to 308,599,859 florins. The deficit will consequently amount to 50,7S1,074 ...

... I I To the EDITOR. of the Ox FoR 73 .Jf)URNA T. S$1},-In thle account of the Oxford Architectural Society's walk, given ill your Journal of the 9th instant mention is made of a crypt under Exeter College Hall, and some doubt is raised as to its antiquity prior to the building of the lall. In the History-of Oxford, by Nrood. the Church of St. Mildred is mentioned as being situated on the North ...

... giiusbto. SATURDAYS, DECEMBER 23, 187L I 4W* The BRISTOL DAILY POST Will NOT be Poblished on MondaF Next, Christmas-Day. Bn1STOL SUGAR MARKXT, FRIDAY, DEnimmrm 22ND.- Raw sugar continues steady and firm in value, though the busi- ness Is limited by the small surply. Some con siderabla sales of second-hand beet have been made at a profit. The market closes to-day until January 2nd for holidays. ...

... ' is London, Saturday. Le' A more dull or unpropitlous Chridmasa 've has rarely dawned upon the metropolis than-that which d precedes the great festival of the year in 1871. A Le dense fog enveloped the eauternportions of the re town and hung over the city like a palL. The traf- ,d fic, always greatly augmented at this season b-y is country cousins coming to town and Cockney rela- r tives ...

... c OUT WITH- BOURBAKL I i I I i w Man, according to the definition of a philoso- aw- pher 1 is a fighting animal; and, without meaning any disrespect to that noble variety of the human race to which we belong, it surely may be said that the Irishman is a pre-eminently fighting -animaL, Thomas Davis spoke for the race when in stirring times he sung bit countryman's passion for war- as Oh ...

... I TE4HE DERRY CELEBRATIONS. I TO TIHE EDITOR OF THE FRUEMAN. SIR-In your article of Tuesday on the Derry Celebrations you rightly say that the Apprentice Boys are the only Christian beings impervious to the kindl associations of Christmas, and that 'while al the world besides is glad and gay their most congenial employment consists in unfolding the records of a bitter past and making prepara- ...

... , I LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. e SPECIAL TELEGRAM. Th ohtonone, London, Friday Night. ' The Johrnston Jones, from Colon, 85 tonsregister, E has foundered off the coast of Bereek (Pas de eCalais). The crew have probably been drowned. The barque Psyche, coal laden, bound for Shang. e hai, was burned in Cardiff dock to-day. It was .-found necessary too scuttle her at her moorings. t The.supposed ...

... 1 (2ueauR AmrrZa AGENCY.) 1 MBRDEB OF GERMAN SOLD1:EIRS IN FRANCE. BERLIN, DIn. 21, Evmrm, X Prince Bismarck has addressed a despatch to X Deunt Arnim, the German Ambassador in Paris, ( Rated the 7th inst., in which, alluding to the acquittal of murderers of German soldiers in Prance, he declares that in future, should the French authorities refuse to give up assassins, the Germans will be ...

... THE ALP.' I acrambles amongst the Alps 1, the very title will reall to many of oar readers glorious hours of severe toil, of some peril, but of intense enjoy- I mert, although none may-. have achieved such I success upon the Playground of Europe as that recorded by Mr. Whyrmper. How Alp-I climbing becomes a passion may be readily uuder- stood even by men whose own feats as moun- taineers ...