... 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 ...

... A N:1W PIANOFORTE. The pianoforte is such a popular instrument that we do not wonder at the interest shown in any improvements made in its construction. As a popular writer says, A good piano- forte is a household orchestra ; and in fact so many of the effects of an orchestra can be obtained upon our modern grand pianos that the instrument is likely to hold its place in public estimation, ...

... 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 ...

... L. p1 I\/ \ 'S animadversions upon the judgment of the Queen's £ Nclli I ision in the case of Martin v. Mackonochie did not strike us, L ?? at the time, as a very edifying or dignified performance. One 'Eth ]sults to which they have led, however, tends even less to edifica- it than the censures themselves. They have elicited a pamphlet of ]four rages from the Lord Chief Justice, the ...

... SER VICE IN INDIA. X l r X gne which the relative positions of the officers of British troops nn .r a in India and the officers of the Indian army have undergone in *ab DLais is not a little remarkable. In olden times the principle was ' o 5toutly maintained that the King's officers, as they were then called -- X..i'iy the Queen's officers-in the higher grades should never be SI.j .tsueLd by ...

... THE W'INVDSOR TAPESTRIES. Tur recent revival under Royal auspices of the art of tapestry weaving is appropriate in more than one sense. Embroidery and the allied arts of weavlrg and spinning have from the earliest periods been connected with ladics of exalted rank. The Greeks attributed the invention of tapestry to pales Athlene, and the Middle Ages have left us many accounts and Sj ?? of the ...

... 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 ...