... NOTES ON THE AFGHAlt CAM- PAIG N.I [From ott owA Corrtspondcnt.] LAhHolto, Decenber 5. The lapse of a fortnight has enabled us to look a,t the taking of Ali btusjicl calmly and dispassion- ately, and most of us begin to acknowledgo that, i thile usual luck oi the Britislz arnly, we havor blundered somlellow into a victory by tactics which WoUldli hase rendered a defeat a greater probability. ...

... AND JOUR-NAL. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1979. NEWS OF THlE DAY. The Grand Duke of Tliaqssn-Dnm)F.sDAnr, the hiusband of the late Princess Aonl, svill, with his children, shortly pay a visit to Hor Majesty the QUIEEN, at Osborne. 'Elhe City of Ghtsgow Bank directors were served in Glasgowi vitlh ithir indictin~enits last nigtht. Their trial is fixed for the 20th of January. At a meeting of ...

... 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 ...

... DISTRESS IN THlE COUNTRY. Prior to Chrisetinas the President of the Local Coerll- ment Board, in view of the distress existing in sonic pcnrts of the country, and its probable increase, directed tbo particular nttention of the general inspectors of the Board to the subject, end requested them to watch closely tho weelly returns of pauperism, and wherevor any consider- able increase was ...

... .TilE WEATHER: SERIOUS FLOODS. VAURLINGTON.-Tlio thaw which commenced last week ws very rapid in its action betweeni Monday night and yesterday morning. llain also atlded to the volume of wvater which wag thrown into the rivers Toes cnd Skerric. Hundreds of acres round farlington are unider water, alnd in some of the villages ithe roads are stoppsed. An iron bridge over the fierorue at ...

... r T&e.r's Ts1elrami, per Press Association.] THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMIVA'ENT: AND THE DUKE OSl' CUMBERLAND. BERLIN, DEomrsEnr 31. The Prussian Government has caused it to be announced that it takes no active part in the con- troversyl now in progress with respect to the suc- cession in the Duchy of Brunswick. Efforts are being made to induce the Duke of Cumberland to renounce his Tights, and at ...

... le There has been a shock of earthqnake at Salonica. The Spanish military authorities have resolved on the r. use of carrier pigeons. 10 r Mr. Dion Boucicault is having a large steam yacht built a at Newburgh, on the Hudson Rliver. Tho wo:k of blowing out the furnaces at Sirhowy Le Ironworks, Blonmouthshire, was commenced on Mlonday. la The French Peace Society has addressed the Senatorial ;0 ...

... SUiCsIDE-Yettcr y,],l slhorty before noo esePrat, aged 618, living int TempleI Street. ?? Seeoh. mn h lodged inl thle same housee to dr ink ?? las and to soon afterwards fosm atI thle month. IMr. Calmsan, asgsistant to Mr. Durnn 'surgeon, whjo ?? to be pass- inz. was called inl, hut foundt that Pratt was dead. -A 8sm11 qjuaniti~ty ?? turns4 out to ho prsic acid was lea t he botto of tile ...

... THE GOVERNMENT AND THIE DISTRESS. The ?? of Sheffield last night forwarded to thc Homno Secremtary the following letter:- 'Town Clerk's Office, Sheffield, J)ecember iil, 1878. Sir,-Bofdrringto your letter on the 27th inst., asking for informnation as to vie amount of distress actually pre- vailing in Sheffield at the present time, and as to the extent of the locud means for mceting it, I ...

... WIRWVIOKSHIRE EPIPHANY QUARTER SESSIONS. The Epiphainy Quarter Sossious of the Peace for War- wickshiO woere commenced at tile Shire HIall, Warwick, yesterdaY before Mr. All Dickius, chairman. In c larging thle Grand J ury the Chairman observed that thienleldar to be submitted was very much of the same ehailater ais those geserally met with im that Court. Iil point of numbers it was exactly ...

... *NOTICES TO COOIRfSP ONDENTI. All letters intended fo, ptsbtsraften must be ?? by the name and acodt'ess of dee wrt et , not neceessarily for ;Itblico lien, hoit jot' the inlforototion of the Editor. PV/en tiit,4icet' to questions m's not flivell inh the eonrse of a daty or twot, flee q tceatoseers seilt please to un71derstand that sue rtre 70nable to eti1srpty ?? iufo'i.0id ion asked for'. M ...

... A linecting of this Board was held nt the BoardI Offices, 'ittonuload, yesterday; ir. J. A. Cooper (chairjsan) presiding. Thero were also, present the Revds. \W. Eliot, F. Simithl, J. Shillito, Messrs. G. Ingail, . H. I dto.o, H. May, J. Y. Poulton, and 5. Salc.---A resolution was9 passed, offering the use of the infanlt department of Upper Thmrnas Street School to the Freo Libraries Committee ...