... WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1. A FEW SEASONABLE WORDS. -- - I1- d - -nn r It is now nearly a century-and-a-lialf since Tim DEiLBY MERCURY first appealed to the People of this town and county for their assistance and support in an uicdertaking which was intended to befor the public heijefit, and which was promisedto be ?? in the illtercsts of those sound Constitutional principles which happily are ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... gate ?? THlE AFGHAN WAR. OUR SUCCESSES IN THE WAR. MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN. The news, in the Indian papers again relates almost exclusively to the war in Afghanistan. The following th is the congratulatory telegram received by the Viceroy E: froni her Mfajesty respecting General Roberts' victory in the Peiwar Pass:- I have received the news of the decisive victory of General Roberts, and the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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... LONDON, WED.NESDA Y, JAY 1, I d A telegram from our Special Correspondent at n Peshawur states that yesterday morning a band of hiliten occupied the Shagai ridge, killed two wayfarers, cut the telegraph wires, and templ}o- rarily arrested coraurinication with Ali Muajid, :d which was restored by a column from Juinrood. t According to a telegram ?? Constantinople, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff has ...

... SIR HENRY HOAR~ AT MALMES BURY. cS] HENRY HOARE AT MALMESBURY. A f. - -o - .4 - n no-n #-n. rF'-- l.-l rIf..l 11 -. At a recent meeting in the Town-hall, at Malmesbary, a fur the purpose of forming a branch of the North Wilts h 0 Liberal Association, the Chairman, after opening' the B, proceedings, announced that Sir Henry Hoare had i accepted the invitation to become a candidate for the ...

... 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 ...