... 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. ...

... LABOUR A1D WAGES. POSSIBLE STRIKE OF A HUNDRED THOU`- SANID MEN. A strike of great magnitude is threatened by the miners in South and west Yorkshire and North Derby- rbire. The masters gave notice of a further reduction of 12J per cent, in the wages of tho men, and this caused Considerable alarm amongst the men, who in 1874, when the prices began to fall, stipulated with the masters that the ...

... ELECTION 22TfzELLzG NCE. 1T . ?? XI--- ?? b 1 A1 0. s-uuwsss-aUiX. ijladstone has conveyed the 0ol- lowing reply to the request of the Liberal 'Two Hun- dred to allow himself to be nominated for the con- stituency at the next election:- I need not say that I am very grateful to the Liberals of Southwark for the high honour they have done me in the proposal you are good enough to communicate. ...

... J-BERITISIE ARISTO Y.., ? AM TOC mi, ITS ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND CR I S. C¶KPTER XVIII. LuCY WATLRS, alias BARLOW, FOUNDER OF THS DU;AL FAYfILY OF BUCCLEUCO.-HER ILLEGITIATm SON, TH: DnUnOF 9 OltO sUT' .: W. F. DI. DbuGLAS ScoTT, Duke of' Bucclefich -fil *Queensbury,. is a great man in the - English 'aristocracy.' He is the owner of nearly 460,00 abres, and his estates are to' be found in nearly ...

... 81amSpm81oN OF ANOTHER SAVE. The following statement was issued by the directors of the West of England Bank:- Bristol, Dec. 9, 1878.-The directors of the West of England and South Wales District Bank deeply regret that the adverse rumours so persistently circulated, in many instances most unjustifiably, kave for some weeks caused a large and continued draw upon the deposits. Latterly that ...

... DEPRESSION OPF TADE, AND GRELT DESTZTUTION. AINAt AAha A _1 oA A large meeting of ladies, called by the mayoress (Mrs. Ward), was held at Sheffield, to organize means for re. lieving the great.distress that prevails among woumen and children in the town. Mr. Mark Firth had placed at the disposal of the mayor the offices and warerooms con. nected with Sanderson's works in West-street; and the ...

... RAILWAY ACCIDZNTS. A- -A.1 - -aln _ ; 1_ _1I __ ._ _ I A serious railway collisiog took place in a tunnel be- tween Stoke-on-Treut and Newcastle on Wednesday moraig. The es7rly goods train stopped in the tunnel for shunting, and the 6.49 papesager train following was by some error allowed to Pass on the same. rail, and ran headlong into the regr of the, geod3 train. Owing to tbe collision the ...

... THE CLOSING -YEAR. 1878 is dying, and in a few days more will be numbered on the tablets of the past. It has been a bad year-a year marked by retrogression in everyform. We have bad a spirited foreign policy' and a spirited foreign trade. We have spent much money abroad, and have received none in return. Every form of calamity has been present with us during the year, and every form of ...

... These three passages, the first from a sermon reached by the Rev. Mr. Shore, one of the Queen's chaplains, on the death of Princes Alice; the second from the report of an agricul. tural meeting in Kent; and the third from an official communication, taken together as a whole are very suggestive, and give cause for reflection. The elergyman said, Nowhere was there 9 brighter, happier, more ...

... O THE EDITOR OF BEYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. Snt,-What is the cause, or causes, of the repidation which has attacked several crowned teads of Europe? Is this sudden, and appa. *ently violent, seizure real or assumed P Upon t thorough survey of the subject, it appears to ne that this monarchical mama is due to various ibnormal conditions of the social system, al. hough I will not'deny that the royal ...

... - ,VIr TI Wxmx T=DsIme,;loo ?? 4Xy, 1S;9, BY MR. GLENNY.| (Rditor of Glenry's fliastrated Gerden Almanaok-.) O1UJ WEERLY CALENDAR, ; Tum r-towsn r&mrys. time imo is spproaching when runateurs should look out for *zelr seods, and not drive it off till the best are gone. aonmnencing with hardy amndals, we say take your choice m cmcon-olvulus msajor and minor, nemophli insignia, dwarf onble ...

... WAGES A:TD STMICES. 'liel ?? lablourers of Kent and Sussex have had tons of good advice given them upon paper, all written by men who never knew what it was to lie on fifteen shillings a week, and to earn it. The strike has struck home in cuarters never before affected by such an opera- tion. The word rent has been very clearly used, and it has even been said that rents must be lowered ...