... Wesk 1577 1873. Inc. De. ending £ £ £ £ treat Writern of Canada .. Dec.28 .. 17,400 i, 12,1N9 .. 5,200 London and Brighton ?? 29 . 35,095 .3 91,001 .. 4.004 .. - Eouth- testtrn ?? - 29 .. 35,214 . 91,500 .. 9,18 , . - THE LEEDs TRAIIWAYS COMPANY.--T_ AIFWI ?? ending Dec. 30th, 1870, £721 Is.; week ending Dec. 29th. 1877, £716 4s. Decrease, £4 17s, The Great Northern Telegraph Comrpany have ...

... The Turks are reported to have abandoned Sophia, after first setting fire to the place. The advanced guard of the Russian western division have occupied the Balkan passes bet*een Arab-Konak and Sophia, The occupation was effected Vith immense difficulty, we are told, owing to the snow. It does not yet seem clear why Mukhtar Pasha has been recalled from Erzerourn; contradictory accounts are in ...

... LONDOXN C1irStoNDXN'. I A ?? . - - . . LONDON, A!ONDAY%,- Evvxr,--c. k rem tlic Rotforni Club I liar Ai, r. GradszorLe thinlks Of tskirng a tstill i~nuro aoti yo part in po-litier. durinlg tire coating, year thiin Ire did lazt. His first. step, it is qsit-, on thot, rc-assc-mihiing Qtf l-'aliaincut.. will be to clialleirge the Minie'.y to an appeat to thea ecountry, en wh~atever proposal th ...

... F,,177- , ??N4 w .q, I.4 I V lv? ?? ;. 010, 'tal-. on 6. e1lsupu Tasn ai1 puijecl. T'hri 'lock wa 'm4AOZT tbse ikto;7i I~'eto, niei~e~ ook~lae,~o6ij, it i~I? ?? I Eft~iul 'HnkAba fo receive th adep, ?? l ?? bl'hadsatier;seekip Sir Rioivhel Hicke. Dti~*AehU4ief t1o~'ach ?? i Jraper~2ssi; in44s ~',Piobe ~J Ot ?? f illers Heus~ins riouter, and -piopkietorofIihAtss.t ?? PaPOp Joaogtif, Pvty, ...

... MEDIATION. The IZ~ives, commenting upon the refusal of Russia to accept English mediation, says it is easy to understand the motives which have dictated the decision. A victorious belligerent is always reluctant to permit the interference of any neutral, lest the gains of battle should be lessened by influences outside the circle of combat. It may also suspect that demands for negotiations, ...

... 0- - - r' H Be would be a bold p'rophet who should itventure to predict what the new year which dawns upon us to-day may bring forth in its twelve months' circuit round the sun. As befits the season of peace and goodwill through which we have just d passed, there has beern a momentary pause [e in the clash of arms across the Afeliter- g u ranean. It is true we have not been able to say with ...

... 1 8 7 7. I., THRsE great events in history. must always w be associated with the Year which ended yester- ai day. The warbetween Russia and Turkey, which es t seems finally to have broken the military power be d1 of the Turks in Europe; the struggle between ss 6 the Uepublic and its assailants in France, which m .B has happily ended in the complete defeat of the al 8 latter; and the terrible ...

... mner Ties London Correspondent of a Dublin paper, cae writing or Sunday night Eays-Nothing continues car to be talked of here but the momentous fact that our Gevernuent have agreed to mediate. There son. can he no doubt that our entering the stage to treat writh Russia places us in a difficult and even a dangerous p osition. But it is now whispered. that lnd, the blinistry took care to loolk ...

... THIS DAY'S WAR NEWS. (FROM OUR IPArS CORRESPONDENT.) RUSSIAN ORDER OF WAR MATERIAL. PARIS, Tuesday Morning.-Russia has ordered here a large number of locomotives. The same company have been asked to furnish three iron bridges for the Danube, the pieces to be delivered on the river's bank in April. This order has been declined on account of the shortness of the time allowed for its execution. ...

... CARDIFF SCHOOL BOARD ELEC. TtON. 'TI | . c o ^ r I ; - I - 4' IL- I : ^ - . x A T LUN. 9 The secularist 'majority of the old Cardiff School Board are mightily sfraid of a contest. in order to avoid it one of their number, Mr I Sanders. raised a miserable technical objection to ( the validity of Mr. Montague Grover'.s nomina. e tion. Fortunately, Mr. Sanders's objection was a case of 'Great ...

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