... THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The 7ires contemplates with the utmost reluctance the possibility that the reference of the Alabama claims to the Geneva tribunal may come to nothing; and yet this may possibly be the end of our rejoicings last summer over the reconciliation of ourselves with our kinsmen. An abortive end of the Washington Treaty must provoke great regret on both sides the Atlantic; but we ...

... TEE Russian Invalid reviews the measures which have been adopted by the Russian War Department during the past year for reorganizing the army. The consequence, it says, of the destruction by Prussia of the whole of the old political edifice of Europe, which has made her the first Power on the Continent, has been a formidable development of the armaments of the chief continental States. ...

... A Paris telegram of last night says that Al. Pouyer-Quertier is ready to pay }he ?? haif-milliard of the war indemnity, which is due on the ist of May. In yesterday's sitting of the NationalAssembly the Committee presented its report approving the proposal of NA. Trdveneuc, investing the Councils-General with power to elect each two delegates, to form an assembly, charged with the government ...

... YESTERDAY the 35-ton gun fired the last of the five rounds which were to be expended in order to test the strength of the exterior or wrouaght-iron portion of the structure after the steel lining has been seriously split. As we anticipated in our former notice of this gun, the piece has fired these five rounds of i I0 lb. of pebble powder and shot, weighing 700 lb., with- out showing the least ...

... I l;: At the City Police Court on Monday, before Mr. HeAd lam and other magistrates Fountain Clarbour was charged with having embezzled various sums of money belonging to his employers, the Burton Brewery company.. Mr. Cottingham proseouted, and Mr. Addison appeared on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. Cottinghaim, in opening the case, said the priaoner was in the employment of the company before ...

... ^L00AL1:NTELLIS0E. SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT.—Mr Justice Grove, who will be thlt. presiding judge at the ensuing assizes for the South Wales Circuit, has made the following fixtures :-February 2Gth, Ilavetfordwest; 29th, Cardigan; March 4tli, Car- marthen 9th, Swansea; 22nd, Brecon 27th, Presteign an 1 .'>,)th, Chester. REMOVAL OF A MINISTER.—Ye are informed that the Rev O. Waldo James, Baptist ...

... LLANELLY. NATIONAL EDUCATION LEAGUE.—An adjourned meet- ing of the members of the Llanelly branch of the National Education League was held in the Town Hall, on Monday evening. In the absence of the President, Mr. W. Howell, Solictor, occupied the chair. Anongst the other members present, wer;'Mr..II. J. Howell, chairman of the Local Board of Health, Treasurer, Mr. Geo S. Mee, Ed- itor of the ...

... MERTHYR. THE LATE MR. A. J. Moiiiiis. -lVe would call atten- tion to Mr. David Evans's announcement of the sale, to- morrow, of the household furniture and library of the late Mr. Arthur J. Morris. Those who knew the deceased gentleman will no doubt be anxious to possess themselves of mementoes of their departed friend, and we may there- fore hope that apart from the value of the articles, the ...

... a4{ OLD GAELIQ CRWRTEN. - -. (FRaM'-A 0Uc3RsPGND~lNT.; \ GABLIG literature has for some yoar3 back beep1 *attracting-considerable attention in Scotland. In 18i0 appoeredl twe volumes of the Popular Tales of~ the West Highlands, collected aid translated. by Mir .- F. Campbell In 1802 appeared two other volumaes of the tales by the same collector, and in the same year was also published The ...

... #NTE2~L. LLIGENCE . : i r .. ~ .PA r, WYIRE I tBY SPECjAL WIIRE t s LOsWz f,~ORRESPONDENpE. I Ou~~qFEcH?- AtTTITUDE OF TDg QUSEha SC6I'CI EDUCA- ° Tl0- oP&YRIGIIT-DTLICE DEMON- TlONL; _T RE THLANGSGIVING IN n STRATIO ST PAUL'S onday. s S eech was this afternoon sub- h .l.er. 2d1j esty at Windsoranditsterms I jsited rio i to orlinary precedent, approved t frare, C In the eveniug, at a dinner ...

... ECC1LSSIASTICAL. ; rs ?? CIrMA.-Tfst evening, A publi t ?? with China 'Aissosa ')Stw ,d 1'irruniswa, L held in Free A6 A~¶e Chrcvnh. Mrbl'trl Patrick Pivfair pre- SIMttbThe eeting Was addressed by the l-ev. - liedt peuglDS, Of the AmOY M~isstion; the 11ev,{ C'43' e ofie f the Swvatow Mission: and Mr k M.D., of Formosa Mi-in, all 1f3 IJ f ean accountof the missionis with wvhich A ,jwhof 65 ...

... yiJYDROPA THY ON THIE RHINE. THE first hydropathic place you come to, going against the stream., is Godesberg, near Bonn ; the next is Boppard, just beyond Coblentz, on the very bank of the river, and high above Boppard, on a sort of mountain, surrounded by a wood, Marienberg-noted for the superior, or rather inferior, coldness of its water, the temperature of which is said to be two degrees ...