... AIASONIC PERFORMUNCE AT ElIE RO.YAL AMPHITIEATRE.., , An eutertainment of a novel and attrautivt character, which baas hadl very tew parallels iho the way cf succe s a:id euthuniasu, touk placs hist n0 evening at the 1Eyal Amplhitheatre, where tie memhers of the Liverpool Draiuati;e Lodge oi Freemasons, No. 1O09, Carried out ii a mnwt satis- iS factory manner a special ?? in aill of [4 the ...

... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE I LONDON, SATURDAY EvENING,- At midnight on Saturday, December 14, t IS11 the great bell of St. Paul's announced to Lon(don thiat the Prince Consort was dead. At mid-day on the same day of the week and the same day of the month, 17 years later, the same bell announced that she who was her father's nurse during the days of anxiety.and the consoler of her mother when ...

... IOUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE LONOON, CiiRIS IMAS EVE. ?? metropolis is to-day given llp to pro- it paratiouis for to-iIloiTow. The. principal streets seem to be cleared of ordinary pe(ldestrians, and e heir places to be taken by family parties, a fathers, mothers, and children, the latter loaded r. with toys. Politics no longetr till maen's brains, ;_ and social reforms are hardly mentioned. r ...

... I ?? The twelfth ?? and Birkenhead Gordovic Eisteddfod was heil yesterday afternoon, at the Concert HallLord Nelson-street. Owing no doubt to the dreadful state of the weather, there was a small attendanee as compared with previous years. The mayor (Mr. T. B. Royden) was the president, and the conductor was Tanymarian (the Rev. E. Stephens). The eisteddfod song ?? Baner ein gwlad) having been ...

... S.P.E, CLI T LEGR0AMS. ac - 1 Lord reaconsfield will receive the Caliform'iuf deputation to-morrow (Thursday). An enlgine got otf the rails last night near Favershamn junction. Traffic was delayed. At the Clerkenwell police oourt, yesterday, Mr. John Baum and Mr. Evans, solicitor, wereagain brought up charged with forgery and fraud. The case was again adjourned. A woman named Thomasina Floyd ...

... A YEAR'S WORK EN THE POST- OFFICE. a The 24th report GI the Poetmaster-General on The lPostofice, being that for the financial year which ended March 31, 1878, has been issued as a Blue-book. Dealing with the inland service, the report states 'v that the number of postoffices established in the r year 1177 was 316l, raising the total number of eflices open in the United Kingdom on December ...

... - FLIGHT OF THE AMEER. LON THE SHAH OF PERSIA AND: SHERE AL. ALT BAGHAN, bec. 19. The Ameer, Shere Ali, has fled from Cabul to Wh Turkestan, having released Yakoob Khao, and left Barle him in charge of fafirv. Sir Samuel Browne reaches Jelalabad to-day. LEI VIeNNA, Dec. 20. diate The evening edition cof the Prese publishes a note. ley e) worthy telegram :from St. Petersburg. Whl According to ...

... FUNERAL OF THE LATE JOHN HETX, ESwO OF BRIGG. On Friday last the mortal remains of this muich;' respected gentleman were interred in the quiet and pus: turesque cemetery of Wrawby-cunm.Brigg. The body came by trairifrob London via Betford at one shortly afterwaids the funeral cortte started from ti4e kailway-station in the 'following ?? rnd- assistants; Heas'se, containing the body; Pall ...

... - . I W -VT , r 4. P, r, y,,r ?? , , - - -.1 ?? v A . !, .I -, ., . g L .6ma _?w. l-, -The Duchess of -Edinburgh arrived in London on Sunday from the Oontinent. ?? ThelXewfoundland; elections have resulted in the sup- port of the present Ministry. , A woman and two children were crushed to death biy the falling of a building in Lambeth,. London, ton Saturday. The Council of the Russian Empire ...

... BIRTHS AND DEATHSIN TWENTY LARGE ENGLISH TOWNS. FORTY-NINTH1 WEE, 1878. in the week ending last Saturday, 5227 births and 4050 deaths were registered in twenty of the largest English towns, estinated by the Registrar. General to contain a population of rather more than seven and a quarter millions of persons in the middle of this year. The birdth exceeded by 150, and the deiths by 066, the ...

... The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Liver- pool Training School of Cookery was held yesterday, at the Royal Institution, Oolquitt-etreet. Mrs. Rowland Williams, the president., occupied the chair, and there were also present the mayoress (Mrs. Roydon), Mrs. J. H.I Falk, Mrs. Paget, Mrs. R. Orompton, Miss Fathbone, Miesr Grayson, and hiss F. L. Calder, honorary cecretary. The report of ...

... [THEWAR INAFGHANISTAN I [O-ICJzAL TELWRAM.) The following telegram has been received at the India Ofice from the Viceroy, dated 13th instant: - Roberta telegraphs from foot of Shutar Gardan, on 9th December, that he hopes to reach the top that day and to return to All Khel. No opposition met with. Hearfrom Cabulthat Ameer has eight regiments there, but troops not inclined to fight, Ameer ...