... BOMBAY, Monday. —News lias arrived that, contrary to all expectations, the Governor of Candahar is preparing to offer a vigorous defence. A general levy of the whole male population has been ordered, and some de- serters from our native regiments have been welcomed and given money. The people have answered the Governor's appeal with great heartiness, and are preparing to ofler a determined ...

... T CYNNWYS1AD. Adolyglad or y fiwyddyn 1878 ?? . ?? ?? 3 Y Golofn Rydd ?? ?? ?? 4 Llythyr Llundain ?? ?? 4 Elsteddfod y Gordofigion ?? ?? ?? ?? 4 Cyfarfodydd Misol ?? , ?? ?? ?? 5 Llith o Liverpool ?? ?? ?? ..5 Newyddlon Tramor ?? ?? ?? ?? . Adolyglad y Wasg Helyntlon Dinbych ?? ?? ..6 Genedigaethan, PrIodamau, a Marwolaethau.. .. 8 D.gwyddidau.. ?? ?? 8 Prif Erthygla ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? 8 ...

... I UNDER GEORGE THE THIRD. [Seleeted and annotated by Robert Dymond, ?? I. The &Eeker .Flying Put, the oldest of the newspapers a' now published inathis oit,, having attained its 116th year, I we purpose to select from the nearly complete series of. its 1 yolumnes preasrved in our cifioe, such extracts as will form d a chronological history of Exeter through the long reignofoi 0 George the ...

... PROMOTION OF TilI DUKE OF •EDINBURGH. Tfco London Gazette contains tho following m- nouncemeut Admiralty, Dec. 30th. In acto,d- anci with Her Majesty's Order in Council of this da/s'date, Captain His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Aide de Camp to the Quen his this day been promoted to the rank of Rear- iidmirul in Her Majesty's Fleet, such promotion keing in addition to the ...

... BREOONSHIRE. These sessions opened on Tuesday at the Shire- hall, Brecon, when the magistrates present were the Rev Hugh Bold (chairman), Sir J. R. Bailey, [;PW I' IT1??- Arthur Alorgau, Air T? w' rVIun olfor,1> M-P ttevC. Griffith, T w^U'- J' ,ihon?as> Colonel W. J. Thomas, Air J. Wilhains-Vaughan, Mr J. W. Vaugban, iunr., Mr John Lloyd, Air Robert Raikes, Air James Vaughan, Mr G. Overton, ...

... AFGHIANISTAN. (From the Times.) Je ~Ousing the scientific rectification of our ol lleflre0 in utthe Punjaub. so felicitously termed a 1i rd frontier by the Premier, it may be well to ri Itpalilmore mninuteness than we have hitherto n d dll on the subject, not only on the geographical m liestow of thle border, but also On the state of the p frovtures when first we assumed control 1: and on ...

... pistrut ?q; -fillo. FOREMARK. Our correspondelit says :-Few churches have bieen more tastefully decorated' thaln Foreinark for tihe Christmas festival. Much praise is due to those younig ladies who have takhen so UIucI pains and Aisplayed so much taste. BARROW-ON-TRENT. CnItITSTMAS BSEIFICENCE.-The widows and old mnee, Ifc., of the Parish Home havea every reason to be most gratefl and desire ...

... RNOCK. Town of Council was held in the Town-Hall on M: y night Provost G brought forward the motion of which he had given notice at last ing, that the Council should give a subscription of £10 from the municipal funds to aid in the erection of a clock in front of the Post Uffice, to be regulated daily according to Green- wich time. The same proposal had been made at & previous meeting, but ...

... CORN TRADE RT. (FROM OUR OWN Lane, most of the past week the weather has and the which followed made the roads still more impassable than they had been when frost and snew prevailed, while the fields have become tented, with No has been done by the severit; the erage he the young crops, wlich have indeed, oe than otherwise by Ta France the frost and snow were \ by the farmers, ped to mild, ...

... A meeting of owners and ratepayers who are opposed to the purchase of the Exeter Gas Works by the Town Council, wae held on Friday evening in the upper room at the Victoria Hall. Mr. J. L. Thomas wae called to the chair, and he wae supported by many influential citizens. I Mr. H. Hexter, hon. see. of the Ratepayers' Committee, a read a letter from Captain Tbompson, regretting his ainability to ...

... ?? 1 - 11 I., L . (Fca 0svsv s LrvERPooLa DYc. 31. In regard to the prospects of our cotton market fer the coming year, we would remark that we are ccm- fronted on the one side by a short supply of the raw material. and on the other ?? bad trane, D the difficulty is to strike the proper ?? bo>wv them. Turning first tothe side of the raw material, .cah ,,1 say that the development of the ...

... CORRESPONDENOCE. AMERICAN OETTO--IItHA f AND MANUFACTURERS. To5 ftc E!,IUOiR i (tlre DAILY PO05r. Si-5 ?? maiy not bie worth mouch, of the causes ok of the declinei in our tradeo With tire 'United States, and our- foreign tratdo generally. I have been strengthened ii then~i by what I leairned inl my visit to Amrerica, eand irn ipressions formed finnsi a inovious intimate knowledge of our ...