... Further correspondence respecting the proceo, ings of the International Commission sent to Mount Rhodope district, was issued late Saturday night from the Foreign Office. SIr Paget, on Nov. 9, forwarded from Rome to Salisbury an extract from the Dinttc. evidently serted by official authority, pointedly denying statement made by the Rev. Malcolm M'Coili the Times, to the effect that the Italian ...

... DEAN STANLEY ON AMERICAN HISTORY. Dean Stanley, President for the year of the Mid- land Institute, delivered the inaugural address of the winter session in the theatre of the Institute, Birming- ham, on Monday night. He said that, instead of en- larging on the commonplace tepics of education or literature, which would be equally advantageous at any time or in any place, he proposed to say a ...

... HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. INCREASE OF CIVIL MABBIAGES.—One of the curious facts which come out in the marriage returns for a period of years is the gradual decrease in the pro- portion of marriages solemnized according to the rites of the Established Church, while at the same time the proportion of civil marriages is steadily increasing (re- marks the Pall Mall Gazttte), In 1861 the number ...

... ..The following telegrams has been sent to the papers from India Office for publication :— From Viceroy, Dec. 1,1878,8.46 p.m. Clivagnari reports from Jamrud, Abdullah Mir reported 10 have left the malcontents. Party attempted to interrupt lnmunicatioDs again in pais and were easily dispersed by Out troops. wBiddu!ph reconnoitring In Pishin Valley and towards *ojeck Pass; people everywhere ...

... MR. GLADSTONE WITH HIS CON- STITUENTS. Mr. Gladstone, who was elected for Greenwich on the 17th November, 1868, while in the midst of the contest for South-West Lancashire, paid a visit to his constituency on Saturday which waa looked upon as being of a farewell character. In the afternoon the right hon. gentleman was entertained at a luncheon at the Ship Hotel, and having responded to the ...

... SUSPENSION OF TH^; F?' PANK« LONI. OC. RW A Cmtral News u ie^an- Tbs suspensioa. of the Dej,o?it Bank, -Loidon, baf. increased the depression in Eic-fcor. tho bt -nk having done some business in that i urLoud. The Wesi o& England Bank shareboldora ;ot ( the Vice-Chancellor's decision, as it is anticipated that compulsory liquidation will increase the ex- pense JE1 skshare.. ...

... WASHINGTON, December 19.—President Hayes has sent a message to the Senate replying to an inquiry concerning the condition of the postal &nd commercial intercourse between the United States and South America. The message points out that the unprecedented balance in favour of the Dted States arising from the general trade f prevents the outflow of gold, and protects public interests at home at a ...

... THE NEW YEAR.—J879.—A neat and effective Almanac printed by Lithography, in monochrome, has been published by Messrs. Horniman, Tea Importers. London the yearly issue of this firm's publications is looked forward to with interest as each series is given away by 4,000 chemists, &c., agents for Hor- niman's Tea, the total circulation is immense. All persons, whether already consumers of the Pure ...

... OriiMNG OF rAKLlAJi^NT. THURSDAY. Parliament was opened to day. A small and uo- excited crowd assembled at the Houses of Parliament to witness the arrival of the members. The Speaker arrived at ten minutes to two, and twenty minutes later the Commons were summoned to hear the Queen's Speech in the House of Lords. ti ...

... SULEIMAN PASHA SENTENCED BY [ COURT MARTIAL. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 2.-Suleiman Pasha. has been sentenced by court martial to be de- graded and to be confined in a fortress, for his conduct in the late war. The Novi Bazar ques- tion has been virtually settled by an agree- ment in the sense of a mixed occupation. The Russians have evacuated Urzun, Kupre, and other places in the neighbourhood of ...

... Mr. C. Bagot Cayley's version of Petrarch s Canziouore will be published shortly. SUICIDE AT MALTON On Saturday afternoon, an Inquest was held at the White Swan Inn, Malton, before Mr. Wood, corouer for the North hiding, on the body of Thomas Hill, a master currier, of Malton, who committed suicide the same morning by hanging himseU' to a bedpost in his house. The evidence of his sister and of ...

... ROYAL VISIT TO THE EXPRESS EUCEXIE. Tier Majesty, with Princess Beatrice and alarms suite, visited the Empress Eugenie, at Chisei- hurst, about noon, oil Tuesday, and after a stay of three-quarters of an hour, returned to Windsor. ...