... 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 ...

... THlE PRESENT AF(UHAN DYNASTY. m sia] fnr. - ij I ia - -A -- A b. - AA7 - -1. A ..1 A Few ruling families have produced such a series of notable characters as the present dynasty in Cabul, and if we throw back oir glauce to a slightly more remote period, and include in our retrospect the great and tlrst Duran, Ahmed KIhan, of the Sudosye house, it may be said that the Afghan monarchs are ...

... (Fom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PAnes, December 20, This is an age of scepticism, when old-fashioned, well-established beliefs are submitted to the rude test of practical experience. As the truths of religion and even the maxims of morality have been roughly handled of late, it need not be a matter for wonder that the axioms of political economy appear less self. evident to-day than they did a ...

... Wt)OLWWUC, Dim0 M1. Thle post of AtoatSptEtmln of the IRoYil Gun Folbeorlits Iill heo varited to-beccl1)w by Major J. F. 0loom, Rofyal ArtIllery, hosioi~ ?? yulrs' tc'ni Of staff eitwoico havo icx- pirell. Major Owen will he mno'ciede( by Captain Al. L. P'otter, .A,. wI)))hal; sine laot April held the appointutnnt of imbrue- to lit. thle lttoyil (41110 F:ctnirio, all 1111lmintmtl)Olt whi)1l1 ...

... Ourfavoll t ut.t. THE SICK POOR. TO TNE EDITOR OP.THE DERBY MERCURY. taE Sir-Will you allow mn to acknowledge in your columns, fes with thanlks, some very eeasonsble gifts sent to the Nuises'. bh Home, ?? pounds fron -lhe Mayor, and a like sum from Mrs. Olivier, also ialf-a-guilla, from the Rev. W. Crosie, also a donation of three pounds iromMir. Schwind, I and somo valuable donations of ...

... THE ROMAN REMAINS AT LINCOLN, - L 1 il. ftn l. -jlfl fl'.J flf jL s2As. - AL the second meeting of the new session of the British writb oit8 Noranciation an Interesting paper was read by in Aroughsotoiak Assone3f.M nd we ffnd thenremains the u; the Rev. S. M a. Myhw, one of the VIpe o r, ntb. on te P discoveries recently made at Lincoln, the Coloniu Linden of ati the Romans, and with ...

... Civid Obtninald VtWd. THE BULGARIAN ASSEMBLY. DREUTER-S TELEGRAM.) ?? Dec. 30.-The number of members of the Bulgarian Assembly, \hich is to mect at Tirnova on the i8th of January, will be 290. T'he Bulgarian Exarch was not, as was at filst arranged, to attend the Assembly ; but it appears now that he will be present in his capacity as Bisho | uf Loftcha, preserving at the same time his title ...

... 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 ...

... SflARDLOW BGARD O GUARDNS. - A. At a meeting of the Guardias, held on the 28rd ult., Mr. e do aurzoa in the ohair, Messrs. Sims, Barron, Webster. Towle, b as Wella, treasley, Fulton, Gretton, Qeo. Aduock, -Barrow aie, le Pa~et, Sketahley, Canner, Evan4 the Revs. Jun. Wsidam, h and 1. C. P. Jones. . The Clerk was directed to write to the Overseers of, the b r. parishes where the Contribution ...

... OFFICIAL TBLBGRAMS. atd (From Viceroy, December 26, 1878.) to y Roberts reports completion of telegraphic communication nei ij Koorum. Some hesdemen of Mongolia and other indepen- all 'a dent tribes come in and seem satisfied with reception. as Le Tytler, commanding Dacca, reports return of his column p, h from Bazar expedition. Enemyfollowed upclosely, but by everywhere repulsed., Our ...

... ANSWERS TO CONUNDRAUMS, &c. to_ En - . _- m - I ?? n.* I Inay| ' (See Flying Post for December 24th.) Ile 1.-A sardine. Lf ter 2.-When he is taking a fly. the 3.-A thousand ilHs, for we are heir to them. tion 4-Because he has great li-abilities. real 6.-Because his setays are limited. ving 6.-Bacchus (back us.) the 7.-By turning him round and round until he became Dizzy. fre- 2.-Galled (Gaul ...

... FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT 1UNAR SOUTH STOCKTON. A shocking shooting accident occurred on lion- day afternoon in the neighbourhood of Maltby, some two or three miles from Sooth Stockton, by which a man named William Lambert, a monlder, between thirty and forty years of age, unmarried, and belonging to Middleebrough, met an instan- taneous death. On Monday deceased, in corm- pany with Robert and ...