... Speaking at the annual dinner of the South Shields Conservative Association recen Sir George Elliot, M.P., alluding to our acquisition of Cyprus, said he had gone all rotted .the island. He had made himself acquainted with, it, and he believed he knew as much about Cyprus as most people. (Hear, hear.) There was a harbour—the position for a harbour, quite under the lea of Port Said, nearly at ...

... The saddest time, we think, in a young man's life is when his girl writes to him that she wants her o d letters, and that he can have his fifty-cent diamond earrings upon application.-New York Express. Spain boasts of 92 dukes, 866 marquises, ü32 counts, 92 viscounts, and 98 barons, besides 44 ennobled foreigners. Two dukes, 58 marquises, 30 counts, (j viscounts, and 2 barons have been created ...

... Last week Dr. William Wallace, F.R.S.B., read a paper at the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, on Gas Illumination. Mr. Woodhall, M.I.C.N., occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance. Dr* Wallace said that, having given the matter some attention, he had arrived at the conclusion that gas interests would not suffar in consequence of the introduction of the electric light for ...

... (From Lord Chelmsford to Secretary of State for War.) ST. VixcEi.T, February 10,6.40 p.m. I regret to have to report a very disastrous engagement, which took place on the 22nd January between the Zulus and a portion of No. 3 Column, left to guard the camp about ten miles in front of Rorke's Drift. The Zulus came down in overwhelming numbers, and, in Epite of the gallant resistance made by ...

... The Government of India has never been very fortunate, says the Indian Daily News, in its mode of dealing with industrial questions. The reason lies in the fact that it makes no sufficient allowance ior diversities having their origin in conditions of labour, and rules of life peculiar to India. Its views are too rigidly western, its objects too exclusively Eng- lish to result in a wise and ...

... The ill-regulated and unsatisfactory condition of the hackney carriage service in the principal cantonments and municipalities of the Punjaub has induced the Indian Government to introduce a bill to the Council for the regulation of hackney carriages. The present hackney carriage service was described to the Council as infamous. Various dilapidated horses, unbroken, and fre- quently half ...

... SUBSTITUTE FOR MILK.—The Editor of the Medina Mirror has called the notice of the medical profession Cadburyva Cocoa Essence which he calls CadburT Concentrated Vegetable Milk, and remarks: j excess of fatty matter haft been carefully eminated iuss a compound remains which conveys in at mi^1. mu*» balka maximatn,amount of nuitrsoicnt. We stronSy BeeoBaawfOMl it as dixit Joc ciuhire ...

... THE- EXPLOSION AT THE DINAS COLLIERY- A puolic meeting conveuea by the Mayor, was b .'d at the Town-hall, C.-ir ...

... FAREWELL LETTERS FROM PEACE TO HIS WIFE AND FAMILY. The following letters have been addressed by Peace to his relatives:— From Charles Peace. „ r „ H. M. Prison, Leeds, Feb. 25, 1879. iuy Dear Dear Wile I have been A bace bad man to thee for many yeaars 0 Dear if I had taken thy advice may years ago this would not have befallen me I need not to ask for thy forgiveness for I know that thow hast ...

... A mail bag in transit from Paisley to Liverpool was opened and ransacked at Carlisle on Sunday morning. It was in a guard's van, and left Paisley about eight o'clock on Saturday night, reaching Carlisle about midnight. At ten o'clock the bag was found in a North-British carriage standing on a siding. It had been cut open, and many letters and papers lay strewn about the floor of the carriage. ...

... The eighty-sixth halt-yearly meeting of Is holders of tnis Company was held on Tuesd. uc Royal Hotel, CHlegs-green, Bristol, Mr. d. \f Chairman of the Poard of Directors, presidi moderate attendance. The Secretary wcod) read the notice convening the meeting, u ,C IKO the report, extracts of which have already : ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE SHAKESPEARIAN DRAMA.—On Friday ereuing last, Mr. R. G. Moulton, M.A., delivered the first of a course of lectures on the above subject, at ths Town-hfill, Newport, in connection with the Cam- bridge University Extension scheme. There was a large audisnce, and the leeture was listened to with marked attention throughout. Mr. Monltou com- menced by saying that the course ...