... REFORM IN TURKEY. The Times, reviewing the official correspondence between Lord Salis- bury, Sir Henry Layard, and the Porte respecting the introduction of reforms in Turkey, says that, on the whole, we have obtained from the Porte an agreement to accept the advice and the services of Europeans, in greater or less degree, in the execution of those reforms in its administra- tion which are ...

... EMOTIONAL SELF-IND UL GENCE. IN a short but suggestive paper in the current number of the Nineleenth Century Mr. Greg warns the age against that insidious form of moral and emotional self-indulgence which so often passes itself off as conscientious- ness. Its insidiousness, as he points out, is its principal danger. It is not, he Say s, that we are habitually given to follow our ...

... THIE REVOLUTIONARY AGITATIONS OF THE TIME. Tu1E social dangers which now threaten at least four great Con- tinental States are so threatening-even apart from the financial embarrassments with which they are complicated-that they plainly demand anxious attention. At almost any period of modern history as much as this might be said with truth of such a situation as that before us; but nowadays, ...

... (OY 013 QWVN CORRE5PONDENT.) OLDHAM, WEDNESDAY EVENING. This afternoou the strike was brought to a close. The employers and operatives' committees met, and the latter decided to unconditionally accept the five per cent. reduction. They asked that the hauds should be restored to their old places, but the employers' committee said they could not interfere with this question. The cardroom hands ...

... E=EOTIO1J IlNEL.GWN&, NO3~t~ FOILFOS& At ameeting of the 1h6rth Norfolk Libeal deaotors t Norwich ytbdayf, 'the Hot. }HArbord Her- 'bQrd in thes bpir, Sir ;'JIom;Fowe31 Bawton. war Wo cept4 as th i candld', In hjs add-ressb ?? :-Th expendituie of the eountry nss cninued to ncreaeed, ad large additions heave been made, and must yet be msdse, to our taxation and the uotional debt, and nosig are ...

... 0#,THE FOREIGN LOD1Pi - * .O t!E ZL J~iOR 01 isB 'DaIy A 1W Bm,-I am surprised tha during- the brief ses~on of Parliament, attention. was not: cld, to the ifct, that, regard~ljse of ,the prevalent distreqe, het 'Government Isave taken severe ,meastre to,, raisQ, the price of meat for tha profiofion of British eag. culture. Lately I read a speech addressed by & Conser-e vative member of ...

... WFATEHJDR STATISTIC& The following Weather Statistics of the ZuiteC4 Kingdom, for agrncultural and sanitary DMOses, tor the week ended the 30th of December, vo b Ishued by tht Meteorological Office: DIERZX_ _. . .. Principal Wheat- b _ ie - - _. L Ecotla*&R tiO U 81 Sbel. ,C 2o s 2 .ngland.N.R. b0e1 81 6bl 3 , 8 8am 8, EnglandB . 6 Be 4 beL d 9 4dm. 4.id.cbmaes. 80 a 89 3 ITbe -L to iS z ...

... I SIR W, HARCOURT a ah, AT OXFORD. r OXPOMD, W=MmksnL'r NIeM!. a, The annual dinner of the Oxford braneh of the Order of Aneient Druids wat held as usual, in the Town it Hall on New Yekr's Day. Mr. Ward (who fills the office b of ioble Arch) presided, and among the guests were t Sir W. V. Harcourt and Mr. BAl (the members for tbe r city), the Earl of Jersey, Mr. ?? Carr, Mr. Alder- r marr ...

... '¢'M To THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWa. SIR,-The Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt bat in the immediate past attained a melancholynotoriety; yet, many occurrences may arise there and escape observation in England. I must, therefore, request you to give publicity through your columns to a project which it is of importance to bring to the knowledge of the British public at a time Awhen the national ...

... NAVAL AND MI1TARY, W0OLWICH, 3AI. 1. The reintroducation of the old Armstrong breech-loading guns has created a new demand for lead-coated ?? such as have for many years past beenregarded as obsolete. Hitherto, however, there has been no pretence for oraployinx these guns Against armour, and the shells made for them have been solely common, shrapnel or segment, with time and percussion fuzes ...

... HACKNEY CARRIA GES. IT is now some 3oo years since coaches were first seen in England. Their introduction is generally ascribed to a Dutchman, named William Boone, who became Queen Elizabeth's coachman in the year i564. Hackne' carriages, however, did not come into use until the beginning of the seventeenth century; the first attempt to organize a regular service of these vehicles being made ...

... - DAMUY ~B~ . wi wa A,, 00%i IU by B JMAMAD ZAMB. BAROMM*'- ' I II I il I1 I I 5 29 it . ?? H, Co'retd to ue4zl, and reduwd to 38a F. 'The black lines show the heiht of the barometer At ta.m. eg this and three previous mornhig The dotted lines indicate tbhe extreme vaeriatons during -esterd7a and the two jrsti, days. The initial lectes onow the dlrictlon of tthe wind The lreerury falls for ...