... HOSPITAL SUNDA Y COMPLICATIONS. WHEN it was first proposed to establish a general collection for the medical charities of London on one Sunday in every year, on the ground that it had been found to work admirably in Birmingham and other provincial towns, grave doubts were expressed in different quarters as to, its applicability to so vast an area. The distribution of any amount which might be ...

... .je' EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND. `. _ _ ?? The following important letter has beea sent to us 'for publication:- NOw &ealalld Inmmigration dilice, Wellington, ' nd October, 1873. Sir,-I have, tlah honour to communicate with you upoU the sutbjact of your letter of the -15ih May, 1873, to the Colonial S crctary, in which you enclosed a memorial of the Cormaittee of the National Agricultural ...

... GALILEO. From his 30th year until his death at the age ni S,, Galileo held firmly and unwaveringly to the truth of tha Copruicall system. It remains to inquire whether, being the case, his conduct at the bar of the Inquisition must cause us to regard him as, in the languiige of ili.1 Dublin reviewer one of the most; mendacious covnaidly poltroons who ever appeared m public life. L'^ us try ...

... T' ATR1ROYAL, COVENT .EUnder tho I xcnetietof 3t. CLmae:e. H Tns Evsratr, at ZTHE ROSE 0.AT1VBiNar.-A ti 48ss Pantomimze E~kl) RIDING HOQD, .AND HE SISTER 1I7LBE D :EIR. O.rsirbls.Devd iott New taon Creta Little Nelly Girave, Holomons ;a 'Mra Heywt Doylo, JrAi mara Eltgndreddlumptn WbltonffeIe2nmgDoeI,'anuM ; hTIRE ROYAL, DLBY-AmN.' SolAmeouend MrFBh Es Louse ?? 1 L an Mm. sahbaton.. PIEvsnge ...

... | ! ~~~I FRON OUB OWN CORRhE8PONrDEM1&S.3- (By Freceman Wire' and Spceidl Telegiams.) LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. London, Wednesday Night. While the arrears of the Income-tax are not yet in, and there is still one quarter of the finaen-. cial year to run, it would be rash to forecast too positively the prospects of the next 3udget ; but I from information from good sources I may ven- tture to ...

... RAINFALL AT MOSELEY IN 1873, AMr. Plant sends us the following. note The rainfall at this place in the year just ended war 27126 inches. Th is is 20(43 inches loss than the quantity which fell in 1872, and 310 inches below the avqrags annual depthl'of rain here in thiirtecn yours' observations. Compared with 1872, the contrast is so great that I have placed in liartllel lines thle monthly ...

... The fortuiglitly meeting of the King's-Norton Board ci Gunrdiains was held yesterdays, at the Workhouse, SOlly o da. Mr. J. Rutter, chairman, presided.-A list of tihe various denominational schools in the Utnion to which the children of poor persons might be sent by the Guamlvians was submitted by the relieving officers. The officers were requested to furnish the number of children whose fees ...

... e Mr. A. Macgregor (late Messr. Maelure, Mae- o if donald, and Macgregor) has just published an e fxcellent likoness of Charles Dickens. It is quite ti equal in fidelity and in point of artistic merit to n L- the litheI of the great novelist issued by the e d firm several years ago. I ], Couroas&Tr S&LAsXS.-Wo understand that the i borough magistrates have reorommended to the gi , corporation ...

... life will lie written by Dr. r ren'M!. Archbishop of Dublin. HA VE.RFORDWEST. PKTTV SESSIONS.—These sessions were held vesterday in consequence of this day being New Year's Day, before the Major John James) and Messrs. J. Thomas (ex-mayor), John Owen, and J. W. Phillips. A char,, of assault against Charles Rees. of the Ca.-tle Back, on the complaint of Richard Davie*, Ruther-lane, was ...

... ghz MfIfast p I (ESTABLISHED AXNO 1737.) BELFAST: THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1874. ?? -. .. A HoN G KONG telegram states that the Porta- guese Government has abolished the Macao coolie trade. This measure has caused great excitement, as it will have the effect of depriv- ing a, large number of Portuguese and Chinese of employment. The Birmingham Schocl Board met yester- day, and passed a series of ...

... I lit ercctit Mmauld DUBLIN: THU .DAY, JAN.'1, 1874. THE year vhich ekpired last night was the fitting calm which ever follows the terrible storm. Not that it was uneventful. It numbered its own iemisfortunues, like its predecessors. BTit the great. y ness of 'things is decided by contrast, and by )r contrast 1873 was peaceful. In it, indeed, were a begun in wild or sterner fashion doings ...

... I I (From our Correspondent.) I Paris, Monday. The funeral of Victor Hugo's last son was a civil one. The remains of the talented writer were re carried from his residence to Pere la Chaise, ac- hi companied by a large concourse of people, thou- bi sands of whom had never read a line of his ta writhigs, and knew 'nothing about him except m that he was lida father's son, and that his con- g' ...