... cmtoxtponlommc* AU UMs must bc aacminpicmed IT the name and esdrresses of the s-riters, not necessarily ?? puilicad, but for tU .as faictirn of the Editor. . Fe cenrmot uicdertakd to return sdcteui coramunifttiofl, TO CORRESPONDENrS. 1. i. A.-The Lines on a Christmas Card are enllenough as an expression of private feeling, but III c not suitable for a newspaper. V. F.-The report of the ...

... FIVE DAYS WITH THE BPIGANDS. t The Daily Neues correspondent in Rome writes Signor Egidio Sarconi, Deputy-Vice-Chancellor in the Ministry of Grace and Justice, set out from Rome about the middle of August last to enjoy his month's holiday at Corleto Perticara, a hawlet in the Basilicata, and about a half a day's journey south of Potenza, the chief town of the province. His family had preceded ...

... INTEMSTING PR9SENTATIONS TO: A CLERGYMA. :; The Rev. T. S. Connolly, BA., has for nearly seven' years held- the 'cusicy' of Keynshum, and during his- .period' he ls wvn the friendship of the :parishioers- . generallylfor-his uniform courtesy and attention o, his duties, He has recently received 'the'appointmentbof Association Secretary Pf the Church-Missionary Society for the -Lducashire ...

... The following extracts describing the severe famine now raging in Morocco are from a letter received from a friend by Mr. J. Alfred Lockwood, of Tintagel, Corn. wall. It is dated Mcgador, September 8th:- The famine here and to the southward has been, and still is, something fri3htful. The crops having been a total failure, the farmers and peasants in the interior have been ruined, and, ...

... joyl &V50 Thoimas Cuniiingham Porter, of the Bristol Granimar School, has been elected to a Natural Science Scholar- -hip at Exeter College, Oxford, of the annual value of £E0 for four years; and Tsaac Richards, of the Wesleyan College, Tatnton, has been given a Stapleton Scholar- ship of £60 per annmu for five years, THE GBAMMAR SOHOoL.-At the entrance examination of the University of Durham, ...

... TEE PONTYPRIDD RAILWAY ACOCIDICT tPY TELEZ ApH,] Th16 Adjourned inquest upon the bodies o loee~a vho were killed byqteeelt te Oieof those peraons 'ois hereklled b the collision at Politypridd ,Tuuccion onete 19th instant was held yesterday, before'B1 I Ei Reece, coroner. Mr. Ingledew appeared for the Taff Vale Railway Company, Air. Stephens for thesignlnaln Roberte, and various professional ...

... MATRIMONIAL aOMPLIOA&TIONS. At a late hour on Monday evening, a strange affair occurred in the Rhoudda Valley. It appears that ezme years agO a man married a respectable young womlan living in the valley, but afterwards joined the militia, leaving his vwif e at home to the mercy of her friends and of P'rovidence. After a while she took a situation in a public-house, began to put herself in the ...

... (From the Times.) A vivid idea of the task which Sir Garnet Wolsoley has been set to perform is given by the letters from our correspondent in Cyprus. When Cyprus was under the rule of the Venetians it had already suffered the ravages of war and of neglect; but the Venetians brought with them that practice of irrigation which at this day makes the vast plain of Lombardy a marvel of fertility. ...

... A TRUTH Fon BBoCE 0o1 BEACONSFZELD.-FirdWorks must be paid for. CUarOVS OPTICAL PHENOMiENoN. - (SeO the Home Secretary's Southport Oratioul.)-The Lqok1 of ^iaa.is ifb General,-By direct light, black as thunder; by Cross lightt, couldeao de rose. SIMgtA SIuiCsdUS. - The Maharsjah of A 3ar-a wotentate of Siinla, who onglit to be enconuteroc y the sabarajah of Nowar--has volunteered to eq.ailp ...

... 'TE TH.IT . F BANK OF BE LAND, CAPTURE OV THE MISSING CLERK. WilllsmOhiaannStifoeds theelerkwhoabscooredsdvvit -.15,000 in notes, the property of the Liverpool Branch of ?? ?? arrested at Jerseyyesterday noraing. The police had- 'received intelligence that the prisoner was supposed to be cruising. in the English Channel in a yacht, and might possibly touch at Jersey. A telegram was, received ...

... [n:UTE'S. TELEGEAM.1 FRANCE. PAMIS, MONDAY.-No medals will be distributed at the Exhibition ceremony on the 21st nlt. No tickets will be issued to the general public. PAPinS, MONDAY EVE4xNlG.-The. Ministers held a meeting to-day, at whicb, the Nfeatioare states only foreign affair were discussed.') To-day, the Bedget committee commenced reading the various reports and letermining the amounts ...

... THE ST.IRAPHARL'S LEAGU7E. Last night, the members of this league held a tea ,lneeting at the Lesser Coistoss-hall. There were neavly 500 persons present, and after tea, which was provided Jby Mr. Hatton, of Union-street, a public meeting was' held. Amongst those present were the Revs. A. IL %Nard, B. J. Ives, l. Pixell, F. W. Greenstreet, j. Dunn, G. Hamilton, N. Pooeck, G. E. Onimarnney, j ...