... '-(ESTABLISHED ANKO 1737.) :: BEBL FA StT: ; ; THURESDAY, JAIJUY 30, 1879. As- official despatch from the Indla Office an. nlounces that fightingg is going on between the Ghiizais and Safis, and the latter are said-to be in difficulties. Itlis reported from- Cabul that Shere Aii has rem oved his family to Malmena, remaining himself at Mazir-i-Sbarif. General Roberts telegraphs that several' ...

... 0,FOREIGN. COMPETITION. ~'AM~TRivELtnD ENGL~siarAN writes as follow's to the RtBendard:-.I came back, to -England not Ip I.d aofonaoeht lengthened jpurnqy. to find rny lellow- countrymen suffering ip. no salldge '!.*,from'depresoios1, if not s~a ftes ak a o9Ibrken, large mecniehues hat failed, 0 grezt industrial works had'a opd; n hog. oat the' manufacturing: districts 'th6 gloomiest ...

... -THE ROMAN CATJHOLIC UNSIVERSITY -QUEFSTION. [cENTRAL NEWS TFLER. ] i THERE iS now a story in circulation In Dnblin, ce in quarters not usnally ill-informed, to the effect that the Government intend proposing the vote by c ParLiament of a seoond million sterling of the Irlsh s Churoh surplus for the purposes of a special Romanni Catholio U~niversity education, eneouraged to this E eourse by ...

... (SPECIAL AND ORDINARY TELEGRAMS.] THE AFFAIRS OF THE PORTE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ti X8sDAY-Anonymous letters havebeen addressed to the Porte threatening serious riots if the caimes are not shortly withdrawn. S E R V I A. BswitAmE, SUNDAY*-Ia consequence of the peaceful aspect of the political horizon, the Skupt. schins, has proposed a reduotion ef 2,000,000f. in the military budget, to which the ...

... S- NOW O-w-S . . . ?? s. I.. Tni preseat season may help to dissipate the idea fl that winters in Scotland have become essentially an milder than'they were ip'thc days of cur grand- th fathere; and:it wonld not be difficult to show that, Bt to except in a few abnormal-instances, the seasons are c now very much the same es they have always ben es Ia January, 1861, the times had a leading ...

... A FARMER'S REFLECTIONS ON THE AGRIOCULTULRAL BITUAT1ON. MR. HEN%-Y NEELD, Grange Farm, Woraley, Lanca. shire, writes as follows to the Standard: - The retrospect of the past year will long be memorable with farmers as one of disappointed hopes and bewildering suggestions, causing many weak minds to waver in their faith in the principles of free trade. What is the agricultural look-oun on the ...

... SUSTENTATION FUND COMMITTEE. eq pri THE quarterly meeting of this committee was held ha yesterday, in the boardroom of the General Fr Assembly's offices, May Street, at twelve o'clock. The chair was taken by Daniel Wilson, Esq, lvo Dundalk. In addition to the chairman, the follow. ing were present :-Revs. Wm. Johnaton, Samuel th Mateer, John Davison, Henry Osbomno, William (dc Gordon, H. B. ...

... Tn3 London Gazette contains the following notice: The Lords Commiiesioners of her Majesty's Treasury of the ?? Kingdom c-f Grerat Britain and Ireland hereby, under thle authority of the Customs Coa. solidntion Act, 1876, appoi:t. Sligo to be a port in the United Kingdom., and She limits of said port shall confluence at Rurnbashrragh point, being the unrthern limit of the port of Ballina, and ...

... LONDON COR-RESPONDENCE. [FBOM OUR OWX20OBRESPONDE=.1 LONDoN, FRIDAY. MxZ. GLADSTONE'S reply to the fulsome addresses forwarded to him by some inhabitanto of the Australian colonies is regarded here as a direst in. citation to the Radicals to get up a political agita. tion in the shape of a revolution. Coming from any British statesman other than Mr. Gladstone it would be regarded as a ...

... LECTIURING on the above subject to a large audience X. on Friday night, at the Royal Institution, Profes. k and nor Tyndall said that the principle of the electric light had been known in the scientific world for seventy years, but owing to two difficulties it had not been applied to public uses. The first difficulty g in a was the waste of carbon in producing 'the light, Mainot though by ...

... TEBE METHODIST CHURCH. [rOeT OUR COFlRESPozzDENT.] EcNIeILLimn, THRUsRDAY.-One of the most my important and imposing social gatherings which ad. thi has over been witnessed in connection with Fer. hbr managh Methodism was held hero last night in the diE Darling Street Churoh. As intimrated at the close tin of my despatch of yesterday, 1,000 persons, includ. ci ing the nrunieters and stewards ...

... REVISED TRANSLATION OF TH'S NEW ,TESTAME1T. 5' [ihb LFO1 TEu MOR~lO POST.] ,. AnouT the mniddle of last morth, whfen the publio hmd full of anxiety and sorrowv, when war had a . actually been unldertaken in India, when commercial .e. depression neemed almost at its w~orst, aud banks 1,were breaking and failures ocourring every day, and' y~ when, to deepen all, the shadow of a great sorrowr g ...