... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m. TilN \VAR IN AFGHANISTAN. lMuL LVE'S TELEGRAMS;.) (ott ILETI XVTCTOVN OF GENERAL ROIBERTS. IAI('LEl, Dec. 5. General Roberts has gained a complete victory, having captuicd Peiwar ?? and all the enemy's guns. The enemy sustained a heavy loss, whilst on our side there were eighty killed and wounded. Amongst those killed are Captain Kelso, of the Royal Artillery, and ...

... Owirneto tlhe numberotleviers received it is ispossible t.; give usacrs in the current week. We cammmnotn- ?? to return the MiSS. or to send answersby post. GEORGt.-No; he would have no other claim than that which he takes under the will of his father. The second wife would, under the will, be entitled to the freebolds. IGNOItANCE.-The executors are the persons ens titled to probate, unless ...

... 'I'RAGIC AFFAIR NEAR LIVFiRPOOL. ?? .- A I0 A A ?? A O , -1-a a / I ; , t f1. T II G-RE.A excitctneat was caused ill the Wallasay district ' ' on Friday by the discovery, in an out-of-tlheway foot- i path, of the nearly lileless bodies of a gentleman and two: children, one about three y cars of age and the other dive, each having been shot throughi tile head witll a revolver. if They were ...

... WOE:DS, Loner TMEE WO:rSHoP. TO THE EDITOR OF RfYNOLD5'S NEWSPAPErR. Sin,-MlVy mates and me are obliged to you for the pace you have given us for making a few of our thoughbt sulic. We hope that you will still let us occasionallj save a say in things. This week we have been talking sbout parliament and its meeting next Thursday. Now, sir, we want to know what good this will do? War baa begun. ...

... E T1ZAGEDY ON BOARD A LIVERPOOT, ,111 SHIP.I [II rFSUiBEUT OF ILLUSTRATION.] a t To' sihip Ternsserim, which arrived at Liverpool tl ol l on Monlday last weeol from Calcutta, has been the h nti Scene of at foturfl tragedy durinig the voyage, the *s. chief oiier a an apprentice liaviag been murdered g 'by the stevard, who afterwards jumped into the seat, I- c and, it is supposed, was ...

... THE THEOR Y OF PERSECUTION THE popular view of persecution, at least in Protestant countries, is founded almost entirely on the examples afforded by the proceedings of the Roman Church during and since the Middle 'Ages: and it is not uncommonly thought a sufficient explanation to say that persecution was invented by the priests for the sake of maintaining the pre-eminence of their own order. ...

... X; members of co-operative stores seem at length awaking to the fact that the whole character of these undertakings is undergoing, or, rather, {as undergone, a great though imperceptible change. In their origin co perative stores rested on a very simple principle. There are a large rumber of persons whose time is emphatically not money, and it occurred tc some wiser head than common that by ...

... J~r I IL £XI. £ XIJ.LVIL ~L PARIS, SugndaY. THE Debats sits in judgment on the documents relative to the Afghan war and its origin, and declares it to be obvious that no responsibility weighs on Lord Beaconsfield or Lord Lytton. The Debafs does not mention Lord Lawrence and his masterly inactivity, but contents itself with saying that the impression caused in London is con- siderable, and that ...

... o ttwW i I THE OUEEN'S Si'EECH.--As was generally antici- pated, Her Majesty's Message is of a vcry brief and of an eminently business-like character. Parliament has been summoned at this early date chiefly, if not entirely, for the purpose of granting supplies for the Afghan Campaign, and though the Ministry cannot avoid, and probably have no desire to avoid, a full and exhaustive discussion ...

... ?? ?? Ic4 G~~~IUH~~~WS ~~1 p -~ LK , CUDDESDON COLLEGE.--The lay memorialto the Bishop of Oxford, alluded to last w'eek, has been met by a counter ineu. rial from 277 old students of the College, and the lishop, rep!y. ing to the latter, remarkis that the imputations on the teaching of the College proceed from persons who have no opportunity (,f knowing what it is, and the conltradliction from ...

... THIE INDEMNITY SPECTRE. 1F Rii various signs it is becoming evident that Parliament will have something more to do during its winter session than merely to arrange for payment of the expenses of the Afghan war. Signi- ficant hints to this effect have been repeatedly thrown out by the ministerial journals within the last few days, and are repeated in one of them with especial emphasis this ...

... Tui rep ort is no doubt true that the German Minister to the Swiss Republic has conveyed remonstrances to the Federal Council touching the liberty which political refugees enjoy on Swiss territory, and the bad use which they make of this liberty by founding newspapers advocating the doctrines of Communism. The comments of the Swiss Socialist press upon therecent attempts to assassinate the ...