... 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 ...

... WAVLL AND MILITARY INTELLIGEiNCE. 1lne stuiaar(t Ior gunners of the Artillery has been raised to the extraordinary height of 5ft. Wlin., which has had the intenlded effect of nearly stopping the supply of recruits for that branch of the service. Some of the brigades are still ?? drivers at 5ft. 4irin., but there ale many rmore candidates than vacancies. The rifle battalions, which have been ...

... TO THE EDITOR OP REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. * Srs,-British philanthropy, like the chame-d leon, assumes divers shades. It is sometimes wrong-sided, and occasionally crooked or per- verse. It does the oddest things at the oddest times, runs counter to public opinion, carries out crotchets of its own, and never wearies of finding some new field of operation. It imitates the flightiness of the flirt, ...

... 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 ...

... THERE is little or no military news. At Jellalabad all is well with Sir Samuel Browne, while the Jhirgas of the Zakka Kheyls have been into the city to make terms with General Cavagnari, as those indefatigable robbers have now been severely chastised by Colonel 'I'ytler's column. Some 12,0oo hostile Mohmunds assembled to the north of the Cabul River and attacked a friendly chief's village on ...

... 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 ...

... tn al.Aie I a u ?? s., w__. The appropriation account of the sum granted by Parliament to the Army Purchase Commissioners in 1877-78 shows that of £;SoS,00o, the total sum granted, £504,833 4s. xid. was expended, leaving a surplus of £i66 xSs. Id. to be surrendered. Of the total sum granted £473,380 was in respect of compen- sation for sale of commissions, but of this £71,903 was not spent. ...

... BERLIN, fan. 30. THE Chancellor's prestige is decidedly on the wane. In order to escape from one embarrassment he plunges into another and a worse one, and the clouds are gathering thickly around him. I have explained in a former letter what were his motives for beginning the ecclesiastical struggle. Perceiving that he had underrated his adversary, he tried a diversion by a project of war, but ...

... With the actual commencement of fighting in Zululand, criticism of the policy which led up to the war becomes useless, and it is difficult to understand the arguments of those who consider that after what had taken place of late with Secocoeni and Cetewayo hostilities with the last-named chieftain could have been avoided. To leave the Zulus with their 40,000 men in full confidence that they ...

... TURKISH FINANCE. (REUTERJ S S ILEGRAMI.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 21.-Safvet Pasha has telegraphed to the Porte stating that M. Waddington has assured him that he would support the scherre for tie conversion of the caimds on two conditions-namely, the co-operation of the Ottoman Bank, and an agreement between the English and French Gcvernrrerts in the matter. M. Waddington added that as soon as ...

... BRITISH ARISTOCRACY. ITS ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND CRIMES. CHAPTER XXVI. (Continued.) Durnm the. time when George I still occupied the throne, his soil carried on- an intrigue with an abandoned woman, named Mrs. Ho[alrd; who afterwards became a member of the aristo- cracy as Lady Suffolk. This woman was the daughter of Sir Henry Hobart. and in early life' she maxried Mr. Howard, the younger ...