... THE BANMK FILURES. _1 'LEIt i T (iF THE ( TY OF GLASGOW a et Be tEANK LIi DATORS. pis] he Ti t- folluwing report jeen supplied officially: ma ler - it a meeting of aidators of the City of ic. Glasgow Bank, hL a sy afternoon, a divi- ie- deno :iviould havi e ! -ed payable at the end g of .Jwnaary bu ircimstanco that the 1 trial of tbe d. 'he bank has, it is underst.cod, 'L ?? Ou the th '(tth of ...

... ?? 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 ...

... TBE NEW YEAR. T'he page is turned. The question is h with -what kind of record are the blank u ning leaves before us to be inscribed. Are we I *ing to continue in a coiurse of meddling and h amuddling abroad at the cost of national u Prosperity and 'crippled political liberty at i ?.MP. home, or are we to endeavour to find our way back again into the old paths of peace ttish and pleasantness ...

... st~t~t5#A1 r.¢LY BIEA Zt-kl.rp rop-.Li AL.X B'DPBS.A. _ - . ?? _ _. .. S UM MAARY. UOAq¢3TIC. >\ !ir r h1 th Sellie'1uei rutut iis, th' gl ?? 3for the' ve or elflinig l2st ?? i vi 0 - l'a'iS i74):19, ' sh¢wilog nr li't i33Tt.Ot , '2.4 ?? te gross Jo evenu f- 1t'e yi .l qialt'r ivra t* 1 t'..5t2. Dr i iF ?? o ' - teii. S:nd tell grosc~ - uw I ( 'li J a't ii t ?? slh w.S a Jl tif Ti 1T ?? ' 0i ...

... ye Now that we have obtained possession t of Jellalabad, of the Jihyber and the Ke Iuoi-um passes. in addition to Peshawur e nd to Quetitah, we have gainedI both com- e lit nsation for the past and security for the _ lfutuir. a Be'ore the war began. it was et generally agreed that the most we required el was a better frontier, alnd that we hold, to after a month's sucecssfuil warfare. If we ...

... LETTERS TO THE EDITORS, I6 i WALTON DISTRESS. e e Gelntlemen,-Wculd you be so hind as to spare me a it few lines In your columns in order to give correct infor- i- mation in reference to the fund raised forthe distress n in Walton ? It will fully explain matters it I remark in that Mr. Henry Sharrock has made the following state- rs ment to the ccrmmlttee:- Iwish, hewrites, 1 Lo state on ...

... BIRTHSAND DEATHS IN TWENTY LARGE ENGLISH TOWNS. he - s .L4MLxJj .LVt 0'±,. on FIFTY-SECOND WEK, 1878. ho II the week ending last Saturday, 3915 births he atd 4237 deaths were registered in twenty of the largest English towns, estimated by the .Registrar- iy General to contain a population of rather more ad i than seven and a quarter millions of persone ad in the middle of this year. The births ...

... SE-%CIA - - E a I SPECIAL TELEGRAM8, &a. I James Dohony, pensioner, aged 108 years, formerly of the 6Oth rifles, and a Penirnsular voteran, was buried at Clonmel yesterday. di At the adjourned inquest, held yesterday at B Woolwich, on the body of the girl Laughton, who B was strangled by her mother, the coroner said the m accused was insane, and would probably be confined C during her ...

... A The year 1879 was welcomed in Liverpool with p. even more than the usual amount of enthusiastic C' demonstration, the great pentre of which was, as B usual, the neighbourhood of St. Peter's Church.O Unfortunately for the full realisation of the Ej expected effect, the clock in the church tower 1 refused to follow Time's regular pace, and, Ja therefore, the actual-record of the midnight hour, ...

... EXTQRTIONTATE INTERES'T. Some extraor'bnary facts were brought t o light on Saturday duxirg a magisterial exaniination at Newport, Ise of W ght. A woman of re-pectable connectious, named Annie Martha Lucy Livia Chr~,V, of lisplanade House, Ventnor, was charged with obtirinilg,by meansof falsepretence, from the 'WGrkirg Mein's Mutual SocietyLimited, of London. two sours of £60 aud £40, with ...

... d4 .r At the CJrewe Petty sessions, yesterday, Joseph a, Spreston, greengrocer, for 1profanle swearing in. Is the market, was fined only 2s., being, in the words b, of the act,1 under the degree of a gentleman. SAVAGE ATTACK Bay NAI-VIEs.-At the Iancast~r I 'e quarter sessintis. en Monday, Jonathan Teiz.~y and c bodily Holme, charged 'with inflicting grievous 0 boiyharm onl John Winks, on ...

... THE WEAtHJI. THE WATHE. TUB8DAY, DEBCMBHB 31. The ohart represents the western countries of EHaope, from Norway to the coast of Portugal, and embraces Great Britain and the British Isles. It also includes the North Sea or German Ocean, the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, with the English Channel, Bristol Channel, and Irish Sea. I _. ! . ?? . .5. . I _ 14 F. The & Co i 7oW dn a ...