... ilEbUS COLLEGE, OXFOIRD. TO TRs RIDITOR. o SIn -A First Claseman in your issue of to. It Of day asserts thst the teaching body of Jesus for College is one of the best in the university. Iowa5 Perhaps it may be not altogether uninteresting th examine the university distinctions of these gentlemen, as stated in the Oxford Calendar for 1877. We have, then, ease 1. Mr. William Eccles Jones, M.A ...

... THIBEE LIVfES LOST. Newtont on Mednesday evening was thrown into a itltoe of intelluce e xcitement by the occs- sionof afrightful boatingdisasterontheriverUsk. In the boat, which bad been hireci for the purpose of pleasuro, was a party of ten ladies and gen- t'cmon, who, starting fromn Beaufort Wharf, pro. cceded up, the river, and nuder rthe bridge, in excellent formr. A strong current w3a ...

... SOUND IVE MEMNTS. ?? or,. . . IONDON, CHATvnAM, AND) Davrns RALxWAv.- 1 he posit ion which this company holds ta-day in ibe estimation of investors stands out in ?? rontrast to that which it occupied no later than February last, when, uinder the delusive sallre. nI ment8 01 the then proposied Fusion Bil1,1 the proprietors where asked to adopt a scheme of I amalgamnation with the South ...

... WEATTHER STAT1STICS OF TBE UNITED KINGDOM FOR ATRI- CULTURAL AND SANITAMY PFUPOSES, FOIR THE WSEE ENDING AUG. X 1878. i8rPECIL TELEGMAXI FS Q0 THI METEORLOLOGICAIL OFFrCV. TEbIPSRATOUE., j.ATNFALrL. ~~ u s 8 o r ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 r e o r DISTrICTs. ° | b ' le3s tban Mean O5 C,, ; e I nfeal d he snoaq i~c o ...

... )NV.4J)6 EDIION lý* fiNYA ,it (J.17 , 10AME .A- L T2EL'S ui 'fL,;RA'S. HI- IhET21AN ]'ANK ftATE. ii .. , ?? I ?? ?? rem'la .i~iqt t.i i, ?? his t1l6 ild it i ?? of dii'oo', to *%N (A,. ot ?? of tadvanles to 3 T 1 TkE INDTAN WAR. V,. ?? A c ?? 'J.}io hos-tile * -. P;-, ht'tV' i,'c,,pittril the L nl'ni of -,dhy t.'wiirai H-toward. F , . ; lEVER EPIDER iU iN AMEHiICA. ..,ri ?? A(I.tii 20TI l eel ...

... ;a 4 ~ ~ ~ ~ I mf~9.EQN TIrE EASTERN Q2UESTION.-Turl-ey's delay in carrying out the Treaty of Berlin Is arousing universal discontent, and the English, French, and German representatives at Constanti- nople have been obliged formally to remind the Porte of the necessity of immediately fulfilling her engagements. This delay acts most unfavourably upon Austria, for the Bosnian insurrection is ...

... RECENT POETR Y AND VERSE THERE is a rather unusual amount of value to be found in Among the Flowers, and other Poems, by Francis W. Bourdillon (Marcus Ward and Co.). The author is invariably musical in his utterances, and has evidently a correct ear, whilst there is a genuine air of spontaneity about his poems which makes them really worthy of the name. Perhaps the most ambitious piece in ...

... RITUtALISM AND ROMAIN CATHOLICISM. (By AN OOCcAS1Or.U: COucntePONDENT.) Abbe Marthn, in the Coestesporary .leviciv, askts the question, Whv'tt hinders the Ritualists from becom- ing Roman Catholics and from his poilit of view settles the matter, ?? doubt, to his satisfaction. We will accept aa a fact the statemerit that the bookls of devotioa used by the 1{itualiets, and othler things umsd ...

... I The new Wesleyan Chapel in Queen's-road, the foundation stone of which was laid in November, 1876, was opened yesterday for religious worship. The building, which faces the Beverley-road, is in the Italian style of architecture, and has been constructed at a'cost of £G,500. It has a spacious gallery, and is intended to seat about 1,200 persons. There are nine class-rooms attached to the ...

... A tA- - .. . - vat.I2 D aL\. an Up J.M. Uiv ,1 upS N Al. A dull November evening; the hour five; the locality a manufacturing quarter in the great metro. polis, on which the rain is faling steadily, in which the gas is burning dimly, and the drains are reeking warmly, as the factory bells clang, and their doors emit into the open air scores of slatternly women anU girls and slovenly begrimed ...

... Local Intelfigence. I As'sociations, Liberal or Conservative, should have their io cilars, posters, and cards printed at the office Of the lIeU Packet.-Adrt. PETITIONS TO PARLIAMBNT.-In the House of * om- mons on Alonday, Mr. P. A. 'rTaylor presented petitions front Great Grimeby and other places against any increased grant of money to the Duke of Connaught. THE ltOYbAL ACADEMY OF Music.-Mr. ...

... IOUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE *s. I Lxa)v,, Tin'nsiiA, EVE:x:NI;. ?? The winid is still in the last, and it is blow- t ijng a big gale. It is true that the Turks ha' e tis signedtietl treatyof Bcrhin,tliatfortlietwvenitiethl in timie they assert that they aire on the pjinit ot es giving in thohr ad]hesioin to tile stilullations re which Count Andrassey has laid befor1 thiem for le acctptaii'e, ...