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... THE RUSHANS IN CENTRAL ASIA. a. I . A. _ -_ rans __t VA Th St. Petersburg Golos, of the 29tb, says that Russia's S Iparticipation In the affairs of Afghanistan will probably bew mc Iconfined to offering the usual hospitality and maintenance to I liv I'the'ft-Ameer. fotl N: i hewsr ey ,for.theprojected rsilwa) ?? its, s~nd Taahktnd is iished, and shows that it is quite possible WI tecrryhe ...

... Mr. J. H. Lovell, iron merchant, has committed suicide by shooting himself at his lodgings in Sunderland. He had been ill for some months of paralysis. The man named James MLaren, who, it is alleged, was stabbed by his son in a house at the New-wynd, Glasgow, a few days ago, has died in the Royal Infirmary of that city. A girl,who formerly lived in St. Louis, writes from Colorado to an old ...

... r ?? In the course of a sermon preached in Clisring T cross Unitarian Church, Birkenbead, on Sanday y T evening, the Rev. William Bians gave the followinig estimates of character of some of the historical I personages who have died during the year:- A5 I ?? A R~pnblianp ltcan an..d aveteran man of science B3r: e Born durn th egno eror, lie outlived half an adzniffetenct forms of government, ...

... IC- -O l - R B- =l OUR LONDORj CoRRESPOjXDBEj 1 ) I1rt LoNDoN, TuEsD.ts E rLxiNGq, Val. it may now be assumed that Yakoob has not arrived at Jellalabad. On the contrary, it the ]ooks as if his accessionl to power meant not in the end of the war, but the beginning of a the seriols resistance to our adlvance. The year is ucA closing gloomly so far as the Afghan question .. is concerned. Candahar ...

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... IRECOLLECTIONS OF T. ASSRETONSMITH. I / - to nlC l w-m ?? in Rnartinu Gazette). I (From Old World Heroes in Sporting Gazette). We have in previous numbers given sketches of man and horse renowned in story, when we saw a chance of adding something to what had already been recorded anent them. Once more we take up our tale of these Old World Heroes, and our subject must now be neither a ...

... SPECIAL CI-2RE SPONDDENCL. (BY PRIVATE TzLEGRzuEf.) I Loxn'ox-, Tuesday Evening. That Mr. Spurgeon's ministry is greatly prized by a large and varied class of persons Nvas evidenced to-day j at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, the lecture-halls of which were for the timne being turned into a series of ercades in which the monster bazaar opened in cle-, oration of the pastor's silver wedling ...

... THE CHRISTMAS BREk&pSj1 MOVEMENT. H YV -LA11 1: The Christmas of 1878-i will not be amongst us for its brightness. The tle, L'tled and the weather has been so par . are h li t' 0 atieclt~lV C seldom. however, reoollect having ssen in ?? I so rnuch practical sympathy Mn2if . those who, after all, feel the bad tiaacs st DWri namely, the very poor, as was sheen d week, and amid the some-what g ...

... VijE PRVA DISf3TR ?? LFI~Tit fRPM TTh ttRD dA'AYa. OF LUXWN.~k The l'ord MaIyor (:31 r Cliarte i lh 15 o 21 0I he an) dod of ?? It :rtil- 4 f .M ito -ta 1.o' 3e FuLAt 'orI th4e ?? . f tind ?? ?? ?? CIco't'1 c I to. i Li i ~i Iiv aT I ie re 'tII V:)U Io 129 111 ll). I lb a I'ncntry ?? olalizke lb' t'1' -.6on. li iljI 'tI 1 i Itiii, an IItai ItainIg, I:LtercI: tie, s A IlI11~I; i t i t-iIIC . ...

... I CONE'RENUE OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. A conference of representativeo1 ol' fricrldb~ !ooieti,'5 was hold Yesterdlay inl the Drawfing ROOM at the0 Fv-o 'Irade, Hall, Manchester. for tho purp33033 of 1'ork.ider- imailwhattiteimp should lie tajko'u t' elsura thela' 0n thLrm~i~ Parliumeut ui tho '11111 tO n'd t13 Pour7 Law Ammi3dmen~t Ar(t, IS7ti. T11w Bill1lhftstaco i ni redu'3el d initO the) ...

... * u A correspondent of the &:otntam writing from Ballater, B gives the following account of a snowstorm adventure on the Scotch railway on Saturday night:- We left Aboyne r only half an hour late, and proceeded witbout ditliculty till DiDnnt was reached. -The night was certainly rather wild, but we did not apprehend a block until, on making enquiries l why the train was stopping so long at ...