... 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 ...

... TIHE AFGHAN WARh oaidI Itd 'J'o the time of writing, the arrival of a gieneral Browne at Jellalabad, which he the was expected to reach yesterday, is not 8et announced. Indeed, there is no further i news from either column of note, except ?? that Captain Goad, who, it will be remem- r a bered, was severely wounded in the attack Ol General Roberts's baggage waggon, Ihas since died. Captain ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE MINERS' NATIONAL I CO3FERENCE AT MM4UaESTEIR The delegates attending the above conference in reossembled for their fourth sitting on Thuraday at in Ardwick Town-hal, Itr As the chairman, Mdr. Macdonald, HUB., had to h~ave dutring the day, it was decided to consider the quaestion of. compensation to workmen for th finjury first. In opening the diccn~aiou, Mr. tii AlIACDONALD said there were ...

... PO(ii.v-LArV ADMJINISTRATION AT SWANSEA. I'lI list of paupere and abstract of accounts theo Swaneea Union, for the half-year ending ?? it-mber 29, has just been published. The it.li namount collected from all the'parishes for t-riod named has boeen 17,472, tho rateable value of the property on which the collection was ltial beilng £2b,4,01t. ToiNards the amount eol- I i vwansea town ...

... 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 ...

... I Last evening the Very Rev. Canon Murphy, Ag Sp, St. Kevin's, and President of St. Kevin's qui Dranch of the Catholic Union, gave a lecture in e bhe hall of that institution, on the career ofc Gleo. Despite the severity of the weather a dii ,nuerous audience gathered for the occasion. The Ga Right fon. the Lord Mayor presided. Amongst eeV theeo present ?? Woodlock, Patrick of ! Martin, M.P.; ...

... I MR. BDUT, M.P[, ANl THRE L1MgRIOc [ -. ?? CORPORATIO1, .- The following has been sent to up fot publica. man XToft Clerk's Office, T ow Hall i ~nerick, 16th Decemrber, 1878.. ,DBI St-I have thelionour to ?? to you that-in pursuance of the enclosed requisition to me, I: convened a special meeting bf the Toivn Council of this city for to-day to consider the sub. ject of the requisitioh. The . ...

... |-TnE House of Commons was last night engaged inA debating the question whether or no England should join with other Poweis in affording pecuniary relief to! the people in the Rhodope districts. Mr. Anderson, Ithe member for Glasgow, when the notice was giveno Ron Friday, at once took exception to it on the ground' Sthat the wide-spread distress prevalent in the countryA rendered us unable to ...

... 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 ...