... A TEST GENERAL NEWS. I I [BY TLEGRAPH.] SIIIPPING CASUALTIES AND LOSS OF LrFE. rn~g a heavy easterly gale yesterday morning, two I oths bound for Bangor drove on raffin Island, and sne complete wrecks. The crew of one got ashore, two men belonging to the other, the Crane, laden bricks, are reported to have been drowned. THE ENGINEERS AND THE NINE HOURS' SYSTEM. illrelerence to the dispute ...

... C Y PR U :S - By W. H1EPWORTH DIXON. No. XV. OFF PAPHO, NOV., 1878. As the lower ridges of PaPho, with their olive groves and vineyards, fade into the purple haze, and only the. great chain of Mount Olympus catches and returns the sunlight,, throwing out the clumps of pine forests clinging' to her rocky sides-our bow being towards Malta, and a trail of foaming silver lashing up the blue bohind ...

... )RFAGN _MLLIGENCE. [RXUEU'S T S,|RA5. i FR\NCH SENATORIAL ELICTIO.S, 9s YDA}y EVEN1GG--With the exception of the 'ilu Martinique, the results of all the elections senate have came to hand, and show a great for the Republican party. Only 15 of 47 Con. 1 es hlave been re-elected. The general regult is b a of 15 Conservatves and 64 Republieans. No nCSo ur ed in connexon withtheb ele tio . 8 ...

... BARTON-REGS BOARD OF GUARDIANS. I . . . _ I v r t_ t- ] - -- -Lv_12] __ A __ The weekly neetuing of thisbody wag- held yesterday a the Workhous 9bFishpondsproad whenthere were-present Messris. T., Pease, . airman),- E. 'Perry (-viceihairman), J Cousins, -Jones J Naish J. -Pavey, 1 . -B. Norgate, -T.. Afilehuro' C Cordeux G Lewis J. wWinscombei W. Perry, A. S (dey We re e, W. ones, J. Pearce, R ...

... j841fl _OWS. THE HEALTH o1io BIszoH ANDEIRSON,-Bishop Aclder- eon appears to have had another relapse, for the report made yesterday was that he had passed a bad night on Monday. The directors of the Bristol and South Wales Railway Wagon Company (Limited), at their board meeting yesterday, decided to recommend a dividend for the past half year at the rate of ten per cent, per annum. A Cool) ...

... Corropoi.ibtum AU tt-as inust be accompanied by the names; and addressa of the iqntcrs, not neceeumsi for publication, but for the satlsfaction of the Editor, We cantnot unflrtake to return rejectd commurncationf . BEDMINSTER SOUP. To the Editor of the Mercury and P0st Sir.-My attention having been called to a letter whlichl appeared in one of the Bristol journoals yester- day ujion the above ...

... THE AFGIIAN WAR.S LETTER FROML THE AMEER.. nod DISTURBlED STATE OF THE KEIYDER .the [PASS. ton. Ir SICKN~ESS AMONG4ST TEIE BrITISH 'hat TROOPS, and [IIEUTER'S TMEGEM1~i.1 CALCUTrrA, FsIDnA'.-A Quetta telog-ra in annouinees the That a large portion of General Stewart's division marclhed Lby, on December :31st through the cGbnwaia Pass, while the General Bidduitph's division crossed the Khojak ...

... pyl p1m Walter Hnmc L.ong, Esq., has been gazetted a dep sty- lieutenant of Wilts, MNr. Walter H. Palmer, Weston-super-Mare, passed as licentiate in music at the recent public examination for musical degrees. WRscEC'E OF A BRISTOL, STEAaSEn.-The Edith Owen, stea=er, from Bristol to Liverpool with general cargo is ashore on Coal Rock, Auglesea, onher beam ends, anri has become a total wreck. ...

... DplSTOL SAMl'TARY AUTHORITY. ,1.I, nieetdit6g of the Committee of the Sanii 0eeklY - metijtag of the Committee of the Sanitary Itee sli lal yeterday. at the offices, Prince. 'tbi~ claLirtualln, Mr. C. H. Low, presided, and .r&CIt 'r. H. Naish (vice-chairman), Mr. r essrs. w. M, Webb, J. Derham, T. Hew-ett, G-. de Lisle Bush, and E. ell. TIIE HEALTH OF THE CITY. i ljdial Otlicer reported for ...

... An extraordinary and somewhat sensational love t match, brought to a commencement through the agency of a journal devoted to matrimony, and to a conclusion e through utter want of means, is at present engaging the attention of the public in one of the Varisian law e courts. The heroine is a Polish countess-all proper heroines are-but middle-aged, and the hero a r young, consequently tender ...

... TBE DISTRESS, A London correspondent writes-A cnioml D,' eloquent proof of the prevalent distress in London km come under my notice. In various parts of the anetropjr there are creches where women going out for aday work leave their babies in the morning, and call for then at night. One of these institutions, I am told, is acst on the point of collapsing for lack of custom, The dole fact is ...

... PRESENTATION TO THE REV. E. H. HAWKINS. Last night, a tea meeting of the Sunday-school teachers and friends connected with the New Redcliff District was held in the Mission-room, Barnard's-place, for the purpose of bidding farewell and making a presentation to the Rev. E. R. Hawkins, B.A., who for some years past has been curate in charge of the district, but who has lately been appointed ...