... Civid Obtninald VtWd. THE BULGARIAN ASSEMBLY. DREUTER-S TELEGRAM.) ?? Dec. 30.-The number of members of the Bulgarian Assembly, \hich is to mect at Tirnova on the i8th of January, will be 290. T'he Bulgarian Exarch was not, as was at filst arranged, to attend the Assembly ; but it appears now that he will be present in his capacity as Bisho | uf Loftcha, preserving at the same time his title ...

... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m.i Tl'E rAl'ACV AND) ITALY AND) GERNMNY. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) Rsli., XWcdriceda5.-It has been decided at the Vatican that the participa- tion of Catholics in the parliamentary debates shall be unfettered by the condition of silence concerning the temporal power, though without express lenurciation of it. TIe Pope's letter to the Archbishop of Cologne, which has been ...

... li. n THE town of Wurtzburg, in Bavaria, has just been the scene of a most unfor- e, tunate affair-nothing less than the manslaughter, some might call it .e murder, of a medical student by a Prussian infantry sergeant. The d German papers, in giving accounts of the occurrence and of the events which Is have resulted from it, report that mass meetings of students are being held n in all ...

... LI FEBO AT SERVICES INA 1878. In the year which has just closed the lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution have rendered valuable services in saving life from. the fo'low- ing shipwrecks on our ?? Balmoral, of London, 59 lives saved ; steamship Oscar, of Leith, 22 ; Austrian brig, Olinka, 12 ; schooner Fearless, of Guernsey, 6 ; schooner Mary Elizabeth, of Beaumaris, 5 barque Sueime ...

... CCCASIONAL NOTES. It is sirgular to observe the different views taken by the morning papers of the revenue returns just published. The figures are of course the same, but to the Daiiay Telegraph they wear a distinctly roseate hue: the Government are even to be congratulated on having met with such singular good fortune. To the eye of the Daily News a blacker sheet of calculations was never ...

... elvid (t-btnity-qlq Vewd. THE BULGARIAN ASSEMBLY. (REUJTER'S TELEGRAM.) SoJliIA, Dec. 30.-The number of members of the Bulgarian Assembly, which is to meet at Tirnova on the 18th of January, will be 290. The Bulgarian Exarch was not, as was at fi7st arranged, to attend the Assembly; but it appears now that he will be present in his capacity as Bishop of Loftcha, preserving at the same time his ...

... SHOR TER P'ARLIAMENTS. TIiE plea for shorter Parliaments which Mr. Holms advances in the current number of the ANineteent Cenztmiy is put forward with corn- rrendable moderation and freedom from partisan prejudice; but we can hardly suppose the pleader to be altogether uninfluenced by party con- tiderations. As an advanced and active member of the Liberal party, it is not likely that Mr. ...

... The bilrmen iln the Khvber Pass are again giving trouble. A Daily News telegrrm from Peshawur states that yesterday morning a band of hillmen ocuapied the Shagai ridge, killed two wayfarers, cut the telegraph wire;, and temporarily arrested communication with Ali Musjid, which was restored by a colaima frcn, Jumrood. The Standard correspondent with General Roberts's column telegraphs an ...

... CRIME IN MODEL BIRMINGHAM. y0 'IA E:DITOR qf ?? PALL MALL GAZETTE. SU1-- In an article which appeared in the Pa/f Afall Gazefle under tlis title en November 20, the writer, commenting on figures taken from flae judicial Statistics for 1877, inferred an exceptional amount of crirne in i,;irningham as compared with other large towns and with previous years, ...

... CCCASIONAL NOTES. It is sirguar to observe the different views taken by the morning tapers of the revenue returns just published. The figures are of course the same, but to the Daily Telegraph they wear a distinctly roseate hue: the Government are even to be congratulated on having met with such singular good fortune. To the eye of the Daily News a blacker sheet of calculations was never laid ...

... The bil'nmen in the Khyber Pass are again giving trouble. A Daily News tel rwom from IPeshawur states thatyesterday morning aband of hillmen occupied tI e Sbagai ridgc, killed two wavfarers, cut the telegraph wire;, and temporarily ?? corinunication with Ali Musjid, which was restored by a ?? frern Jumroed. The Sf/av'iard correspondent with General Roberts's column telegralhs an account of the ...

... THE LEGALITY OF GLOVE-FIGHTS, At the Leicestershire Quarter Sessions yesterday thirteen men came up for sentence for engaging in a glove-fight at Aylestone, near Leicester. The defen- dants mere convicted at the last sessions, but sentence was reserved, in order I that a case might be submitted to the Court of Appeal. The higher coart hell f that the defendants had been rightly convicted of ...