... LETTERS TO THE EDITORS, I6 i WALTON DISTRESS. e e Gelntlemen,-Wculd you be so hind as to spare me a it few lines In your columns in order to give correct infor- i- mation in reference to the fund raised forthe distress n in Walton ? It will fully explain matters it I remark in that Mr. Henry Sharrock has made the following state- rs ment to the ccrmmlttee:- Iwish, hewrites, 1 Lo state on ...

... BIRTHSAND DEATHS IN TWENTY LARGE ENGLISH TOWNS. he - s .L4MLxJj .LVt 0'±,. on FIFTY-SECOND WEK, 1878. ho II the week ending last Saturday, 3915 births he atd 4237 deaths were registered in twenty of the largest English towns, estimated by the .Registrar- iy General to contain a population of rather more ad i than seven and a quarter millions of persone ad in the middle of this year. The births ...

... . - -I W DllNESDAY, JFANVY 1, IS9. ?? ?? o-a- - 0Un Tuesday the Glamorgmashire Court of Quarter Sessions mot for the trial of prisoners, I -- . i . , -. - - - - . , ., I the number of cases being not very Iarjre, and considerably lees than in tha corresponding period of former years. On the same day county business was transacted at the courts for Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Cardigan- shire, ...

... 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 ...

... Qhte Aemman'is journal. i ?? IN PARIS TEE FREBA.N'S JOURNAL Is now exclusively supplied at the Kioseuz, 131 BOULEVARD DES CAPU- cixxs, saear the GAND iHoTzL and PLACE DS L'OPERA. NEW YEAR, 1879. Wa beg to direct attention to our New Scale of Charges for Short Prepaid Advertisments which will be found in tie first column of our first page, and which comes into opera- tion to-day. This scale is ...

... I -LO0DNO GOSSIP. a (From the dv rwponde~t of the Evening wph.) -: PC LoAdnu Monday Evening. en The evil hour has coue again upon us asU terriblp and sude ; aa yet t rwhbolly unex- I pect F it 1a long been foretold. i3til in de spite of all provision, we are, ag usual, ?? Cil ?? bysaprise. The moi feeing of et Londeo is straalge enough. ve stare with t dismay at the ragged groups which are be- ...

... ALLEGED ASSAULTS AT A BIR- MINGHAM TOWN'S. MEETING. TUB MAYOR, AX ALDERMAN, AND MAJOE BOND SUMMONED. O.i li.esday, at the Birmingham police-court, M'plication was male for summonses against M*5 r iayor, the chairman of the watch committee t H. Wright, chairman of the Liberal Associ- > and Riajor BonJ, chief of uolice, for as- aaults alleged to have been committed at the lowa-hall, on the ...

... THE IRISH SCHOOL TEACHERS CONFERENCE. At the congress of the Irish School Masters' Association, oil Tuesday, in Dublin, some conti- dence was expressed in the working of the Inter- mediate Education Act, although tho curriculum is regarded as rather tentative at present. The view taken by the president ia that it will elevate the status of schoolmasters in Ireland. The Irish primary teachers ...

... DARLING*TON. Owing to the very sudden melting of the snow and the giving of the ice on the Northern rivers, floods are reported from all parts of the North. The River Tees, which drains so large a tract of hilly country, seldom contained a larger body of liquid than that which swept in flood past the waterworks yesterday, carrying on its turbid waters hundreds of thousands of tons of ice. All ...

... = 4== - 7 -i S w- ~ I NORTH ii '£Y NEWS, I DTJfiSHA. CATHEDRAL. Wood' Ib~eouti: WiEDNEiSDAY, JAISUAUT 1, 1879. aet Moerning-Service ArnieS in Gt. Anthem (428): Inlteo Christ dwalleth all the fulness (Gose). Introitt (511): of her 1 Laid, ih a our ref ago has been (Youedstsohlm). Corn- the Sol mutiion:? Arrieg in A. had t EveniugA-SerVice Stainler in F. Antheni : ed School kindly light (worads ...

... A WATCHER BE iH E DEAD. n A corresponident sends to the Timesi the following as translation of an article from the Dqrmsp-sier Zeitffar 's hearing this title, and date, Darmstadt, Christmas. rr Eve :'- Long, long before daybre onk o one of these gloomny December days of last week an officer radie his way hurriedly along the empty, silent streets of the capital, lie was in full uniform, but ...