... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... DIRECTORS AT EDINBURGH SOUTH AFRICA- ENCAMPMENT OF FINGO LEVIES THE strong probability that ere this hostilities have actually begun between the British forces and the military monarchy of the Zulus under Cetewayo (undoubtedly the most formidable nation of Southern Africa) adds much to the interest of sketches from that part of the world at the present time. The engraving now under notice will ...

... STRAY LE AVES. MEETING was held yesterday afternoon at the Royal A Institution, Albemarle Street,to promote a testimonial to Professor Clifford. It is unfortunately only too well known that Prof Clifford has been obliged, on account of the state of his health, to retire from active work, and to make a stay in Madeira. His absence is a general loss to science and pro- gress. We feel sure that ...

... THE ALBERT HALL Au exisibition of pictures in oil aund water colours 6aa been formed by the Council of the Albert Hall in the spacious circular gallery at the top of the ball, which will be open to the public on Monday next and till the',end of October. More than a thousand works of art in oil paintings, water colour drawings, sculpture, wood carvings, etchings, eugraviugs, autotypes, ...

... BEATEN TO DEATE WITH A THOUSAND: 3RODS. . . Tur following statembnt of facts is to be found in Itufin Piotrowslki'swork on Siberia, which was pub. lished in 18S3 ?? firm:- Sidrocinski and four other political offenders who had been drafted into the ranks of the Siberian army were condemned each to seven thousand blows with a stick, ' wihout mercy.' If any one of the members outlived the ...

... THE difference of opinion between Marshal MacMahon T and his Ministers on the subject of the removal of the Generals, theoretically turned on the application of the law of i873. This lawlimits the timeduringwhich .a General shall command an Army Corpsto three years, but Pirmits- his ' In September, i876, all the nineteen commanders of corps were re-appointed; 'this second term of three years, ...

... It will surprise -eaders of Lord Hartington's speech who have accepted Lord -Macaulay's severe judgments on William Pittto find that he is claimed by the new Lord Rector of Edinburgh as a Liberal poli- tician in respect to his commercial policy. But in reality the Tory statesman, like many other Tories before and since, was a good deal more Liberal than his opponents, even in foreign policy. ...

... fWR.EIQ III- FRANCE.-France is once more agitated by a serious political crisis, and by the time that these lines appear in print, Marshal MacMahon will probably have resigned, and M. Grevy will be reigning in his stead. Ever since M. Dufaure obtained his vote of confidence the Marshal has been manifestly uneasy, and has several times essayed to oppose the various changes of officials which ...

... ?? X, I 4l Ilc a G -1u mx j i A~ws ~P ~ ~ a'eaRW RITUALISM AND LAW.-Dr. H. Julius, the aggrieved parishioner, of Clewer, has obtained a rule nisi in the Queen's Bench Division, calling on the Bishop of Oxford to show cause why a commission should not issue to inquire into the alleged Ritualistic practices charged against the Rev. T. T. Carter, Rector of Clewer. The Bishop has chosen to ...

... THERE is very little to chronicle this week respecting military operations, the only forward movement being the occupation by General Donald Stewart of Kalat-i-Ghilzai on Jan. 25st, and the despatch of General Biddulph to occupy Girishk on the Herat road-this step being considered advisable, as there are still ten r-egirments of the Ameer's troops at Herat. At Candahar, which has been left in ...

... B MOILE, . ?? n )- --C: .EM. M~ORJY, .P.ii ON A d ?? lEvFO ~ a. 't -;v ?? Easnue1' Mot, MP.,upe ~ l akt'thbe Skating Rink, TunbridgeWel ob Oth ayevesing in introducing Mr. Gough, id -&yone intr n the condition of'tU ?? peoplo th es' ot ou population, as .every we11-toado KInbwn uouldbea ?? be aware tlt drk wae acing peinicioutly in thousando of hone in thiu cound. did nyt pmteend to kniow more ...