... 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 ...

... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m. I; /: U 7' s Y 'S T E E E G Ri XM f S. Al. I./ I lt it J I THE WAR. CONS IAN tlNOT'LF, Jan. 17, 9.40 P.Nt.-A report was current here this after- noon that the bulk of Suleiman Pasha's army had passed through the enemy's lines and arrived near Adrianople, but this rumour proves to have been prema- ture, nothing being at present known of the exact position of Suleiman ...

... The news published this morning of the armistice negotiations does not seem to warrant any expectation of immediate peace. It is stated to be the opinion of military men at Bucharest that the Russian commanders will try to delay matters, with a view to capturing Adrianople. The Russian Agency says that the Porte is not yet acquainted with Russia's terms of peace, and that they will only be ...

... THE NEWS OF TO-DA Y. y siTEIRDAY afternoon the ChancellQr of the Exchequer gave formal notice that on Monday next, in Committee of Supply, he svill move a supplementary estimate for-the naval and military Services. Explanations of the step were at once requested by Lord HARTINGTON in the House of Commons, and the Duke of AEGYLL in the House of Lords; and the replies of Sir STAFFORD ...

... THE PROPOSED ARMISTICE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan 14, 9.27 A.M.-The Council of Ministers decided yesterday to send Server Pasha and Namyk Pasha, as negotiators invested m ith full powers to treat on behalf of Turkey. They will leave for Kezanlik to-day, where the Grand Duke Nicholas will meet them. KING VICTOR EMMANUEL'S FUNERAL. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) ROME, Monday.-The Pope has ...

... OPINION IN THE WEEKLY REVIEwS. ENGLAND AND THE WAR. The Saturday Rcvicw, after observing that the capture of the Tur;' army in the Schipka Pass probably decides the fate of the war, says while patriotic Englishmen view with regret the rapid triumphs of ?? ambition, it seems unnecessary to render their acquiescence in a c. lJ neutrality more irksome by incessant verbal provocation. A journal ...

... PARIS, AM &ay. IT is said that M. Waddington expects to hear every minute that the preliminaries of peace and the armistice have been signed, but that the Porte wishes to know the conditions of the armistice before signing the preliminaries. The telegrams from Vienna assure us that the Austrian Government is as yet only imperfectly acquainted with the Russian con- ditions, and that the Cabinet ...

... AD VERTISEMENTS. GREAT SALE OF CHINA, GLASS, AND EARTHENWARE.-JOHN MORTLOCK OXrorD-STREFT and ORcHARD-STREET, has pur- chased the large house, No. 32, ORCHARD- STREET, and, with a view to prevent breakage by removal in alterations, is now selling DINNER BREAKFAST, DESSERT and TEA SER- VICES, ORNAMENTAL CHINA, and GLASS, at a very great reduction, and a further allowance of .5 per cent. for ...

... 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 ...

... THE WINTERS OP THE PAST. IN 1674 snow fell in England for eleven days. But this was far surpassed by the winter of 1683-4, which appears to have been the severest ever recorded in this country. This was one of the occasions wfen the Thames was frozen over and a fair held thereon. The river was frozen from December to February. Trees were split in the forest by the violence of the cold, nearly ...