... I Army rEQ1RGANISATION IN AMERICA. it- ts The New York papers publish the report of a le joint-committee appointed by Congress in June a last, to prepare a scheme for the reurganisation of We the army. The committee have drawn up a bill, is twhich, theysay, will, if adopted, make a condensed Y. and complete code of army law. Of this bill a is Washington despach in the ?? York Tiibws gives .d ...

... GIRL CEARGEn WITr WIsaUL FIRE-RAISINO AND sixHrT.-A doulestic seevant naluedi Uargaret I Hrtualn or Shaw has been apprehended on a Qclar~ge of wilful fire-raising and tUit. It appears that about ten days agO the girl went to serve wich a widow lady at New IresLcwscl, near Ayr. On Sunday arternoon the lady weut to attend church in Ayr, leaviug the girl in charge of the Louse. nll returuing ...

... MMR GLADSTONE ON THE FRIENDS5 - AND FOES OF RLISSIAt Mr Gladstone writes in the January number of t' the Nimsteentls Century on Friends and Foes ofl Russia. Remarking at the outset that it is a E common and a profitable trick of party to assume t the mask of nationality, and that this filching and appropriating of the national credit has been f specially noticeable during the recent ...

... ) GENERAL FOREIGN TNEW I I _ _ II I TURKEY. . ?? THE TREATY OF PEACE WITH RUSSIA. Constanltillople, December 28. Id This being the Turkish New-Year's Day, the Z Snltan, iw aezordance :ith Eurropean usage, re- a ! ?? the congratulations of the Ministers and a public funictionaries. lis Majesty, in reply to a i congratulatory speech addressed to him by KeAre din Pasha, the Grand Vizier, said he ...

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... THE AFGHAN- WAR.1 tu 1- IE T ) \3 A t OPERKTIONS IN THE KU-RUM VALL1:Y. ?IkASIFFSnSTO BY GENERAL 1O BERTS. gPPCIAL TI LFG:4MIf. LL-Y EAs-rE. N ?? ?? Ha all, I~e General. On or about Nev.-Y-' a s V- General 5. er--s vsill leave fr - e s t H. 2' Itt ;eS accitia!C c 1,, a sjuadlroi or th.e lsthz il::-.ars, a axnz the 7Id ili~alttiS, ~a 3h.liltallbattr-ics, tllrec f -i hiar , c tl 1::UT 211bt i. ? ...

... THE iNTERN-AL STATE Of RUSSIA. The Statist sees in the measures just adopted against university students in Russia new and im- pressive evidence of the intense alarm with which the Government of the Czar is filled by the state of public feeling throughout his dominions. Far from turning men's thoughts from home grievances, the war has yerilously increased the prevailing discontent. it would be ...

... WIONDAY MORNING, DECEM rR 3O. No confirmation has yet been received of the report that Yakooli Klhali had arrived at Jcll3la report tnaG ?? ?? . bad. Onreorresuondent with ?? P statesthat GeneralRoborteisabouttostart fortlie a Khost territory, between thirty and forty miles b south oF the IRurumi I alley. He -will be accomianiced by a considerable force, but no o opposition is expected. After ...

... LORD BLANTYRE ON AFGH{ANTSTAN. Lord Blantyre writes as follows in the Dai'y Telcgrcph:- England is trustee for lndia. All Ildia is now renognuiing this, asd hastening to afford us material and mural suppiort. VWe may encourage her farth and consequlent support by dealin.g z..oroughiy, compreheosively, and permanently with Afguanis- tan; or we may disappoint her reasonable expecta- tions, and ...

... UC-LESIASTiCAL. K.T st Clurch.-The annual soiree b Sa'iyschwd children belonging to this ?? fied, as Leld in the Public - -~ 1 ruioav eveniun. 'fhere ivas a large d I vs U n 1 was taken by the liev. J. - w:.b ise' win was suuported by the - J is I \.diare, Dr t.;tlcgolwn, aud .Uessrs J. j Io T Luvrie \, ANlacie, D. M'Lareu, l'r,& Aiter tea, the rev. Chrairman , ~lestlig statistics regarding ...

... PASSANA-TE DESCRIBED BY HIS COUNSEL. 2 ?? fs (il.P5lalM LONDON COF.RRZSPONDENT.) _ ?? Rome, 27th December, 1878. n TEr trial of the Italian regicide Passanante bidsI fair to val in interest tie most thrilling politi- c cal tri recorded in the annals of this classic t land of treason,,treachery, andL crimnes. The hero of the tragedy soon to be enacted in Naples is not, as the ...

... SUBURBAN~ NEWS. GorAs.- Wfe-Beatsrs.-At the Pollee Court yesterday-before Bailie 6tobo-Thomas Hill, a joiner, residing in Harmony Row, was convicted of assaultina his wife and other two individuals on bunday morning. Sen- 7 terce of two guineas, with the alteruative of 30 ( days' imprisonment, was imposed. Peter Cassey, ! a brassfounder, residing in Blackburn Street, was t convicted of a ...