... 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, ...

... IDILAND INSTITUTE. The following I' a snumnary of the report to be pre- se ted'on the 8th of Jsnuary:- TheCouncil of. the Institute has reason to congratulate its aubsoribero upon the present Position Of the Institute. The past year wss marked by incrs prosperity, and thoe thab a lm ii efre yq~o hiaia tbe Vountdi~oliwtifnalliy receives fresh tirne o tigh estimation in Which the work of the ...

... WORK AND, W'AkES' BIRMINGH&A RPUI KERS. An, a&phrnede meot-ng of opeative ralernakers ar h3ld at tho Pablie Offlee, on C]turday oevnirg, r.I howe presiding. Mr. EMis, a member of the oommitte npaolnted t a Drevnont meeting toc.onferwith t~emuterl upon the qsueston of inorevwig the rate of waeq, statect tk befora ire oorainlttee! had time t wt 'on thes lji& meastro met and unanimoily deoidod to ...

... A GLANCE AT TMI1;$OUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELUS. THM GEOGRLPHIOAL AND POUTIOAL FOSITION. Our ancient geographers. were not far wrong when they marked a ?? portion o.f unknown Afrc as 1 deeert, and the boundaries they prescribed must h3ave ieluded the-diamond fiolds of South Africa. A more barren country it would be difficult to find it appears to consist of stones, little 'ad l'rge Votuldera, ...

... MISCELLATEOUS& I TnE Cloua .-Her Majesty the'Queon, with their Royal .lighnerEes Prince Leopold, Prlricess Beatrice, and thc children of their Royal Elighuesses the Prinoe and Princess of Wales, and Prince and PrinesBs. Louis of Hesae, will redide at WindsorCastle diing Christrnas. Her Mfajoity is espected to leave Windsor for Osborne about Thursiay next, but the children of the Price and ...

... *:KAfield-day was heia -at AMdershot, on Friday, ii 'fhononr of several Ldi4siguished foreign nistors, 1initnding tho Prince c6 dBroglie, his brother, Lieutenant do Broglie, M. Cowards, tha French Cbargc d'Affres, and M. le Comtede Vauriment. The ?? rogimeiit and eorpasoomposing the division maiched t'the Long Valley, wheretheyformedup in line, the Horse Attillery aid Cavalry on the right, t 6 ...

... T H E T I B E R. A G'ommittqe of Promotion of the Society for Dredg. ing the Bed of the Tiber, with a view to important arebreological discoveries, has been formed in Rome. It con Bstrs of Signor Alessandro Castellani, the Senator Pictra Rosa, Prince Odeecalchi, Marquis Vitellesohi, Professor ~ignana, the Engineer Giordano, Mr. Story, ?? sculptor, and Dr. Helbig, Secretary of the Prnssian ...

... I DEATH OF THE EARL OFELLNBOROUGIL We regrot to announce that the venerable arl of 13len. borough died yestorday, at three o'0lonk, at hin seat, Southamn, near Oheltenham. His lordship had been ailing for some time, and hbin death 'was not unexpected. The following skotch of bin life is from Men of the' Timei $dward Law, ?? 1arl of Elnmborough, is the descendant of an ancient family, whinh ...

... lPr9 AS500TATION TMV3RM5J EXCHEQUER REOEJPTS. The receipts from April lst to December 23rd are as follows; - £47,899,704; expenditure, £49,889,006. balances, £,756,391.; lasit year's receipts, £15,3tii,437. expenditure, £47,164,229.; balances, £o,081,156. ATTEMPTED MURDF AND SUICIDP. A man, named WilliamYoung, residing in Johu Street, lslington, London, attacked his wife in bed yestrday morn. ...

... ECCENTRICITIES OF FRENCH JOURNALISM, The recent death of the Earl of Chesterfield h4s been commented upon by the French papers, and the manner in which the most ordinary occarreaces in England are handled by our friends across the Channpl is amusing beyond measure. (Thronology arid. history, which are the backbone of truth, are treated with amusing levity, and the domestic incidents of a man's ...