... TO 7X1l EDIfOn OF TIM DILY NiWS. Sin,-As you and your Special Correspoadents in Turkey have invariably ably and without fear stated all the facts that have been brought to light, whether they told for or against the Russians, may I ask you to draw the attention of your readers to what, in my opinion, has boen a grave mistake committed by the Rus- staus, and further that they have no excuse for ...

... TH7IE Governor of the Cape Colony is as far as possible from being an alarmist. Most persons, indeed, who are acquainted with his public career would be inclined to say that he leans to the side of optimism in politics. He has a high reputation for tact, for prudence,. for moderation in language and purpose, and he is not in the least likely to cause unnecessary embarrassment to the Government ...

... OUR READERS WILL DE IINTERESTED TO LEARN TA. THE SALE OF LLOYD'S ;NEWSPAPER Dunna T'E YEA3s 1877 Reached a Total of TWENTY-EIGHT MILLION, ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY- EIGHT THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED & THIRTY-FOUR COPIES. LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. I Russophiles are a strange set. Russia having courteously rejected the mediation of England for the restoration of peace be- tween her and Turkey, ...

... OUR New Year's Day is distinguished by no special festivities. It was not always thus. In the time of Elizabeth, that maiden Queen furnished her wardrobe for the year from New Year's gifts. It is true she was obliged to make presents in return, but the praiseworthy economy, which is attributed to her with one con- sent by all historians, beyond doubt produced a balance, after the accounts were ...

... There is a vital question between artists and audiences which ought to be settled one way or another. It is a questionI of some importance to art, and one intimately con- nected with the personal comfort and future prosperity of those who are highly endowed by nature and as highly educated in the profession they have adopted. The question is, how far artists are bound to comply, and to what ...

... OCCASIONvAL NOTES. An occasional Calcutta correspondent, writing with a full knowledge of the subject, speaks of another famine. This time the scene will be laid in Oudh and the North West Provinces. Unless rain, and that in no ordinary quantity, has fallen in those districts within the last three weeks, nothing can avert that terrible calamity. Our correspondent is further disquieted by ...

... TIIE 1? USSIANS OF TO-DA Y. IXXV,-SIBERIA.-ON THE ROAD. CAPITAL punishment has been abolished in Russia, that foreigners might no more be ableto call the Czar's subjects a barbarous people; and instead of it the process of doing offenders slowly to death in Siberia has been advantageously substituted. A Russian may be sent to Siberia by sentence of the courts or by an Imperial decree issued ...

... WALKING IN WIN TER. WE do not say it is wonderful that people do not indulge more in winter pedestrian excursions than they do, because we are apt to regulate our relaxations by habit and there are undoubtedly some grave objections to winter walking. No one would dream, of course, of plunging out in broken weather through mire or snowdrifts. Among the most common conditions of our climate at ...

... 3 FIRE IN EDINBURGIH-FALL OF7-A I ilou L. . : ?? v I A1 [w I [ ?? ILLUSTIATTONS] I Tr e nn givo in our front page an engraving of'the fire at Milue's Comimercial. Hotel, together with two others reprepenrliig tire' dirasters weich occarred on f the day after the confltagrntion. These three Miae- I tratiotts are reprolsuctills of sketches made expressly for this naper by a local rlltist. 9 ...

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... THE CONDITION OF ERZEROUMA (FROM AN OCOASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.) ERZEROUM, Ditc. 7; I hear on the best authority that there are not between 'this and' Hassan-KalM, a distance of about .18 miles, 86 battalions of Russians. How they manage on the bleak hills it is impossible to say; but Ihave heard from Armenians, whost villages they have visited, that theytake what they require and pay well for ...

... SIR HENRY JAMES, M.P., ON' THE WAR. --4- Or Ut arAPostrr.) TAUNTON, FaRnAY NIGHTr. The ritenthers for Tausaton addressed their eaon- t stituount5 to-night, when Sir Henry, James delivered P. t speech upon the war and tho foreign polioy of the Government. Sir ii: JAmcaf, on rising, was recoived with great cheer- Ing. Nie ?? as it over is for a repre- sentative, to ascot his constituents, ...