... TO THE XEMBMlS OF THEl CHURCH OF ENGIAND. Dear ?? is not in any presumptuous issumption of authority that I venture to address you, neither is it in any vainglorious imagination that I possess any special influence, but it is simply in the affection of an eider brother con- cerned for the well-being and well-doing of a Fathe's houeehold. There seems teobes wide-spread feeling of anxiety about ...

... NEWPORT ,DISTRICT OF ODD. FELLOWa. MR. CORDES, M.P,, ON ENGLAND AND THE PI On Monday the annual meeting of the repreeen- E tatives of the Newport District of Oddfellows was IC held in the hall, situated in Herbert-street. After at the ?? of the.day had been transacted, the Ci annual dinner was held at the Castle Inn, the host c0 of which establishment (Mr. Dean) set on the eli table a very ...

... THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON DISESrABLISH, 1 . . IAIMENT. I tile '. . _ , .I St The Duke, of Argyll has an attioin on Disestatblish-. I -Mir mont, in the January number of Cthe C'eatesiporaryjlie. a inVel.His Gra~tce sa~ys that Lord lHaritington's atini'osion * nthat thle policy of 111ntaiutiniig State ChurLCLchs must be I tires an open questionI with the Liberal party. ought not to Lokin hae been ...

... WEATLEF. CHART, apcmth 31 Tbe cbr9- tha w'-3ta,4 cO'nCt!e. o! Rzr ?,,m from aya5 v' en13 003' Of Por~'.,al Aul eanbrj; COreat I *mtA the E3ritis) lsloa it 1 itlu6-ai the North Sax, lb, g Ga= O.arv. tfie Bay Oe BLny. the Xediterrautn-a. eb, IVJt: ...

... LO-NDO.N CORREMSPGINDENCE. In- OX OUR OWNa 0 SCORRMPON.DE.]- LwNmDo, SAuDAY. Wa have arrived at the end of the year; but at the begin-ing of -what may be considered the most evenztil period of British history -within the arsenic of 1iving rren. That we are on the eve of a grea. war no one can doabt, unless, indeed, it ho that tha tbree Emperors put their heads together and Str~ke before the ...

... GE14NE!RA F&OAIGN .NNEW. (Tg.lOUG IRUTIi' AARNOTO Z EW YEAS DA.Y IN BERLIN, ?? . BEBLN Disc. 3I1.Evz~mrnW ?? t ptto-lorrow being Now Year'sDAy thD Emperor v011 : ihoI4 a Couyt rmqgptla, at wrhich aI the Prilcos arA Prlicqeasas the ao'nerai8 On active sorvice.. eanl on the re- tired list,'various princey personages, the': 76 istere, uii Ahmbasad6i3 wiilhi prosoarflt. fo-daj thoir M&caJetls the ...

... TEE OLD YEAR AN'D THE NEW. is-- Is ITrn the new year come new hopes. it does not need a very sanguine spirit to look for r better times over the world in the year that has 0 just (Ldwned than it hats witnessed in that which lhits just closed. The dreariest of dreary years, ,with scarce a parallel in the experience of living men in this part of the country, it has passed away auid the only ...

... NVAL ANDMLITARY. .. WOOLWO10 Dro. 31,t 'A;-iidden dror lbaa been received at iWoo1*i~j., for abateof artillery tobhei ?? . for immedfat diiiartfu*tS' to e CnAt U Of uopa ioo cqm ,T. Beatter to the 6t Brigade, uiderthe ?? Whiah, was .rfst ion the iosterfo- nszet.year, ui~ been paraded, inspeted and~ik ported ready.to embark forthwitU -- 'eThe Wtei'cShip' Gfeewoodd 3hhlchlas beun for-son #me ...

... THE WARR MIEDIATIOXN. SPEC:IAL TELEGax-4 Constantinople, Sunday, December M0. While Prince Reuss. continues to urge the porte to conclude a separate peace with Russia, F the Austrian Ambassador has been directed by l a Count Andrassy to invite the Porte to formulate p such a proposal of peace as Austria may con- sider and possibly support. Count Aundrassy V expresses the strongest desire to ...

... ' FRAMLINHAM. 'Till COV.NTY MEDICAL CLUB.-A public meeting was ?? by placard, by thle Rev. G. Attwood, rector, to) )tte pae at tile Corn IsI il, on Friday evening last, fiti 'elo'clock., for the purpose of explaining and .ieir;the objects of the above Club. and for the ?? i~f a branch for the Franilitigham district, lletv. (, Cattowi, in tlie absience of thle Rector, pre- (I fo among those ...

... CHRONICLE OF EVENTS IN TIHE YEAR i877. JANUARV. r. Tlhe QIcen proclimiied Empress of India at D~elit. Ilrieri 'Vale or' the S thCoast. T!p AdI'livrityt ?? at Doever dlatiogecd to the extent of Z20.,020 or £~.6oco S. Rival Govern.rs-lhlr. Packard IliepaLlilicati) and r. Nichito (Dceniova't)- jii,talled at New OiCairs. o. Tlie Firenct Clmuvibers asscemble aftcr thle New Year's recess. Iliii ...

... : THE MISSING STEAMER FRIESLA\ND. (T'snr- T -v~'el ) (Fuosi LLoYD'S.) Lloyd's siut-nigont at Ferrol, in a letter dated the 2.th C inst., states, vith reference to t~iu steater that foundered a near Cape Fiisterre about three weeils since, and which w is supposed to havo been the Frielnrul, that earlv in the c l mornisn', a~bout two weelks iprevious to the 26th inst., v n latrge asterer Wa8 ...