... I - - aD - - LONDON, WnDNESDAY EVBXIY(}. Last ialght'e debato was a good deal better than Monday's. The Liberals had a mush better champion to lend off with In Mr. Whitbread than they had in Mr. Lowe. The two men are singu- larly unlike. The member for Bedford is one of the most popular men In the house; the member for London Univereity is one of the most unpDpU- lar. The firat has been ...

... FOREIGN MSCELLANY. Xr. Hamond left Constantinople yesterday, and Dlensrs. Palmer will leave to-day for London. ;muallpox is seriouely on the Increase In Bombay. A Gibraltar despatch, dated Jan. 2;, reports the arrival there of the channel fleet. Captain Sebastlano Martini has left Rome for Adenrs the forerunner of the Italian equatorial exped ion. It is telegraphed from Bombay that 1. 9S. New- ...

... ] Last, evening, the Rev. Joseph T. Bxylee, Incumbent of Holy Trinity Ohnroh,Prlos-stro.t, Birkenhead, preached a spocial sermon in refereneo totherltuallstic practices which for a longtime have been observed in tha' place of worship, and which gave rise to an Indignatlon ameting' 1n the Queen's HaU one night laht week. We may state that In the forenoon the services wen, as usual of the ...

... | SPECIAL TELEGRAM, &to. Honry DandasViscount MelvIlle,died yesterday at Melvillo Castle, near Edinburgh. Three excesses of the day-Drlnk, dak, luki- Punch. ?? ik n. The Edinburgh Town Oounonl yesterday passed a resolution to nemorlalse Governmeant to with- draw the slave clroular. A deputation wltedon Lord Carnarvon yester- day to proteat agalist the projected cession of the British ...

... I ?? (P~om the Gaalfs oft Ima ftwh.) BANKRUPTS. Bird, Tames, of Rose Cottage, Great Colmore-treat ane1 Market Bell, Birmnlgiam, frult salesman. Bunker, William, of Langley Moor, Durham, watch- maker and newrsagent, OChbnaUl, Samuel, of Bedford, builder. Franks, Heprv, of the White Hart Hotel, Todmordens Lancashire, Innkeeper, Leek, Wiillum, of HKWrokete, whitesmith and iron- mnonger. Needs, ...

... I SPECIAL TELEGURAXS, &a. I Vilcoupt Gough Is roported to be seriously Ill at St. elelons, Booterstown, county Dublin. Tf~e Land's End of the Scully cable was picked up Yesterday by the steamer Queen of the Bay, and buoyed about orne and a half miles from shore. Yesterday 3uornlug, ai train from Plymoutb, on enterlng Tavlstock Station, ran off the rails, owing to the points being firmly fired. ...

... CHURCOMEN OX DRUNKENNESS, DISESTABLISHMENT, AND RITUALI5M, The annual meeting of the local branch of the Church Pastoral Aid Society was held last night at Hope Rall. There was a amall attendance, Mr. Douglas Hobson presided, and among those on the platform were the Rev. Thcmas F. Fergle (vlcar of Ioe), the Revs. Dr. Taylor, William Lefroy, John Burbidge, Richard W. Bardsley (Bootle), Charles ...

... flying A SCANDINAVIAN EXHIBITION will be held at Christiania in 188°. MONTALEMBERT'S POSTHUMtOUS WORK Spain and Liberty, is being published at Lausanne. THE HIGHLAND BALL, conducted under the direction of the Gaelic Society, is appointed to be held this year at Willis's Rooms, on the evening of Tuesday, the 15th inst. CURLING AT BALMORAL.--Lord Kinnaird has written to Sir John Ogilvy to say ...

... O The Obesterfield milgistrestes, on 11bedayi fined two mail £5. each and coats for reftusing to quit a public-liouse wheim requested to dlo so. IAn inventor in California recently paltentedasontriranco for driving sewving machines, whiec does away with the treadle. It is ilriven by said runs like clockwork. Mr. WV, I-T. Barrow, late Mr.P for South Notte, died ait his residence on Saturdaly, ...

... BIRtMINGHIAI PERIODICAL CHARITY COLL.ECTIONS. A general meeting of the clergy and ministers of religion Andi representatives of the laity interested in the periodical collections made onl behalf of the Anialganlnted Charities of Birmingham, was held in the secretary's room at the Midland Institute, yesterday afternoon. The MIayor (Alderman Chamberlain) presided ; and amongst those present were ...

... ano Xtghalm ?, :St AND JOURNAL. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1876. The QUEEN, accompanied by the Princess BBATRICE, left Osborne for London about ten o'clock yesterday morning, in order to open Parlia- ment to-day. Her MAJESTY landed at Gosport, and travelled ?? line to Victoria Station, and drove from thence to Buckinghaam Palace. The Duke of CONNAGHIIT, according to a tele- gram of the 28th ult., ...

... I PROFESSOR GEDDES ON TEE CELTIC ELEMENTS -l IN MODERN LITERATURE. e- Om Friday, Professor Geddes delivered a lecture to the th Aberdeen University Celtic Society on the above subject in e- the Medicine Class-Room, Blarischal College. The intro- ductory, remarks dealt with the position of Celtic in Scot- it- lnd receding but very slowly. It was spoken in the ly heights of Strathdon as late ...