... A NEW vocalist, says the OfiMsical World of the 16th ult., of great promise and exceptional claims to consideration, is about to appear at Her Majesty's 'Theatre. Mdlle. Ambre is by bi ...

... IH QRN- .W Rn jTH13 GARDEN.-BY MR., W. FARLEY.| |SEASONABLE GARDENINiG POR THEI WEEK1 ENDING DIUENIBEIR 21. Probabiy the past fortnigisi or thrde weeks hais dolle ulore to convilnce 'g4owers of the gleat injury which damp does to their planti than all that we have been able to say, however much asnd frequently we may have endenvoured to urge the inipatance of the mitter. Prolablyn .ew weekts ...

... THE PLEASURES OP PLAY-WRITING TO THE EDITOR OP THE ERA. 8ir,-Well iay Mr Burnased vindicate the originality of lis rra;tdta Icomedy against tile ill-conditioned liiisrr'preS1 tion of his New York critirc. We have all grosm too Pick wickian, nolwadnys, to use the stern old rulonosyllahle which is the best condemnation of this sort of tlijir. It is the same everywhere. We have the Houses of ...

... In the notice last week of Fine Art etching, through an error Mr. Seymour Haden's name was printed Hayden, for which we must tender an apology. The World of the 25th condemns in no measured terms the parvenu insolence of the Whitehall Review anent the death of the late Princess Alice, and we feel sure only echoes the feelings of all who lay claim to the title of Gentleman. There is a vast ...

... 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 ...

... Tne Catholics and Liberals in the Belgian Chamber of Represen- tatives have begun a quarrel on a question which profoundly interests the whole Romish priesthood, and which has started a violent contro- ?? and Italy as well as in Belgium. Referring to a large bequest which had been made to the curd of a Belgian parish in order that he might say a certain number of masses for the testator's cocl ...

... TIlE YEAR i878. AMost of the morning papers to-day devote the chief part of the space usually assigned to leading articles to a survey of the events of the past year at home and abroad. The Timoes, in a review occupying nearly ten columns, observes that the year which expires to-day has been remaikable for a strain of prolonged anxiety, from which the national mind has not yet been altogether ...

... SINCE Mr. Goldwin Smith's recent visit to Europe and his return to his adopted country, he has not apparently improved in urbanity and good- temper. It has been Mr. Goldwin Smith's fate to suffer the pain of parting with a long succession of illusions. Failing to become a political notability here (in spite of the advantage he derived from being almost singular at the time in his personal ...

... The expedition against the Zukkur Khels, a telegram in the Daily N~ews states, met with a ?? deal of firing from the hill men, and oar loss was one man killed and three wounded. The columns of Colonel Doran and Colonel Txtler advanced along opposite sides of the valley, burning the villages and blowing up the towers, and then returned to Dakka and Ali Musjid. The special correspondent of the ...

... In the prefatory observations of the Analysis of the Returns Relating to Colonial timber, recently issued as a parliamentary paper, the following remarks are made on the necessity for some steps being taken for the preservation of forests in many of our colonies:- The returns exhibit in a striking manner the urgent need for some prompt and comprehensive action to stay [the influences at ...

... THE PORTES AND THE PALACE PERA, Dec. 20, THERE iS, so far, no reason to modify the opinion expressed in this corre- spondence on the appointment of the present Ministry. It is a Cabinet that means to work. It is homogeneous in its views. The Grand Vizier is in many respects ahead of his colleagues, and it may be apprehended that, in proportion as this fact becomes more apparent, jealousies ...

... arivid obeningld new'd. THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. The Tim:es correspondent at Kurarn, telegraphing yesterday, gives the lofing Particulars of the charges of treachery and desertion brought against sec ral sepots in General Roberts's force Tl; tsill Of the prisoners in the 29th Native Infantry for their conduct on the night te St ullst, and during the action of the 2nd closed yesterday and the ...