... -oMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. ADl qlz UAY. IJ.e ?? Orr in Court- 1rdsiloo wih l Sttff outillttnde' Etward Muou- jaI3 t 2 ~ n~bri ?? re~tired list ?? the Z th just. v *ij ,tan te tIApril. 1lt77, Chief tisthis day Wocn phtoed on the se- (ctt5aaof her 3ljvi' rder in Coun11- ?? eT Ivith ililtlu hs1thi AN~~l $ f hio thik .ord'~ 'ut 1 pro~tn'' 01lier visty ortlr in Cooin- li*N 1 ,i: \cj-t vice ...

... LO.ZDON. SA TURDA Y, FEB. 1. Our Special Correspoudent ' at Jeilalabad tele- graphs that a rumour iso urrent there of tbe death of Shere Ali, while returiingjfrom Turkestan. No contirmation of tbis, news. had, however, been received, and Major Civagnari was iuolined to doubt the story. Accordingto intellig'ence re- ceived in S4t. Petqrsburj, 8here Ali hsd reached the Russian frontier.. The, ...

... I I THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. DEFEAT OF THE ZULUS. E&STERN TELEZGRAPH.) (Via Madeira.) (rOMa OUR OWN COBRESPONDENT.) NATAL, JAur.ny 21, 9.30 A. . A force of 10,000 Zulus sent to Ekowe by Cetywayo is retiring before Colonel Pearson's i column. A Zulu spy who has been captured reports that the army had beeni ordered to concentrate at Dulendi. a No. 8 column, under Colonel Glyn, had a first ...

... UmYEBS;I I I I GO E ?? .MT . AMINAM X: OROR ,,e; ' Fh5T X mNAilZ'Io2 fO 't flI~OsiES Qi' BACa;Er, bo Vusic.-The follwoisg entleieen nave satiaded fth examiners und Iacaevo&dcotes $- ilniu Cl-ton1 B.A.~ 'riaity olloge and St. Michae's, Tenbuhryi The Rev. William Jacksonk, M.A., Worcester Collep, and lher-street, Carlisle; Basil Hll*eod, commoner, Trinity ,aeso&r F. e. Core Ouseley Bart., Christ ...

... I (TllsoV0i REUTER'B AqMQY-) ITALY. ROME, FPB. 3. The Chamber of Deputies to-day continued the debate on the estimates for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Speeches were made by Siguori Crispi, Bonghi. Zeppa, and Cairoli, and the latter defended the policy which had bcen pursued by his Ministry; he dnied that the prestige of Italy had been lowered since the Congress of Berlin, and declared ...

... (T1ROrGII 1LOUTres'S Annllo8.) CONSTANTINOPLE, FIB. 4. The Porte has decided to despatch commis- sioners to inquire into the condition of the in- habitants of Eastern Roumelia. Mahmoud Nedin Pacha has been appointed Governor of Moussonil; Haudi Pacha, Governor of Begdad; Hever Pacha, of Smyrna; Ahmed Vefik Pacha, of Broussa; and Reoof Pacha, of Adrianople. There has been a friendly interchange ...

... Lord Lytton telegraphs to the India Office that there is great distress at Cabul, owing to the disturbed state of the country and the stoppage of supplies. Yakoob Khan shelled the Kizilbash quarter of the city, but afterwards withdrew his artillery on a representation being made to him that a general rising would take place. A telegram from Calcutta states that Mahomed Khan, son of Wali ...

... M. YULES GRE VY. PARIS, Jan. 31. IT is something like a joke of Fate which designates as Marshal r MacMahon's successor to the Presidency of the French Republic M. Jules r Gievy, whose name was for a long time associated chiefly with an . amendment in which he had moved that the Republic should have no I President at all. This was in i848. The 43rd and 45th Articles of the Constitution ...

... ?? Obtuinald OtWd. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6.-General Loris Melikoff starts to-day for Astiachan, to superintend the measures now being adopted for stamping out the plague epidemic in that district. The trial of M. Goukhautseff for embezzling £200,000 from the Mutual Land Credit Association was concluded yesterday. The prisoner was sentenced to sixteen years' penal ...

... It was stated at a Liberal meeting held at Durham last night that at the next general election, Sir George Elliot, the Conservative member for North Durham, will be opposed by Lord Lambton, son of the Earl of Durham. The Scotsman of to-day states that at a meeting of the Haddington Con. servative Committee it was stated that Mr. Macdonald, Solicitor-General for Scotland, bad consented to stand ...

... A cAlcroUS COUcCIL. - 1- I - r T_ nXX1 I The Liberal 'Two Hundred of. the borough. of Southwark met on Tuesday night at the Bridge Rouse Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. Parish, for the pur- pose of hearing the views of Mr. Passmore Edwards, Professor Thorold Rogers, and Mr. Joseph Leieester (working man's candidate) prior to making the selection of a candidate to contest the borough ...

... I A ?? A CATWLE DISEASE. A serious difficulty has arisen in the American cattle trade, and one which threatens to close, for a time at least, the whole import of live stock fropn the United States. The Dominion steamer Ontario arrived at Liverpool the other day from Portland, Maine, with 247 head of cattle, and when the vessel was brought into Huskisson Dock it was found that several animals ...