... THE MARIAQE OF. TEE DUMEB OF! CONNAUGHT. $The marriage of thi Dake of Conaixugbt with the Princess Louies Margaret of Prussia ,willjit is statetd* be celebrated ID sbict ?? privacy et Windsor on the 13tb *fMarcht rOD saoouint of -the'Wdube ltate of mourning imposed On the bride. nd btidegfoom by the death o. tbe. Ghmnd Diuobos'of HesaeDarmrstadt and prlce 4pnry of the reetheladsni. It at' ...

... THE BATTLE Ar RORKE'S DRIFT. The aotion at Rorke's drift is described by a Standard correspondent as a splendid affair. Lieutenants Brombead and Chard were left in charge of the Drift, with a company of the 24th. The firet intimation of the disaster was from fugitives making for the Drift, eome of whom, including Lieutenant Coghill, who rpde away to communicate with Helpmakaar, were killed by ...

... FLECTRICITY AND MESMERISM. .a- -rf PY,-VO - 1Y TO T1{E l:DITOR OF THR FLYING POST. Id After waiting for thousands, if not for millions, of years rn men of soience have diseovered that light, heat, electriolty. Id, galvanism, magnetism, ohemigal aotion, friction, and og pressure, are only modifications of one snd the ?? arent U. which pervades all space, and is the active principle of all the ...

... MONDAY EVENING. WI In spite of the unfavonrable weather the practice of the mi 'Varaity Eight has been pursued with vifour; and, though ha the strict training will not commence till Aeh.Wednesday, be yet the crew has to all intents and purposes been de'dnitely in aettled. The heavy rains of the past few weeks have brought out the floods to such an extant that the Eight has lel been obliged ...

... I I 3 DEVON COUNTY VOLUNTEER * | ASSOCIATION. R.. . . . . . . . I , - I A meeting of the council of this aesmooation was held on Fridey at the Castle of 'Exeter, tbh Earl of Devon in the f chair; aleo present: Sir J Kennaway, Bart., Major. General Bartlett, Lieutenant-Colonels Walrand and .l Templer, Captein ,Acsitd, and several other oficers. A e letter was read from ar, B. J. Ford, resigning ...

... CASTLE OF EXETXB. FRIDAY,-Maglstrate8: J. B. Lousada, Eaq., in the chair; J. B. C. Walkey, J. H. Ley, and A. H. A. Hamilton, Esqro. RVBBfT PnOSTox, of Cheriton Cross, pleaded 'guilty to trespassing In search of game and rabbits ob 1lausd in the occupation of T. M. Snow, Eeq., at Whiteton3, on Bunday, 26th Jaqusry. , ;ohn Heal, gamekeeper, caught the defen. dant'.removlp9 d:pheaeant fron one of ...

... THE PROGRAMME OF THE.. LIBERALS. | Deadly and venemorusin their ?? word should be batred-of Lord Beaconafield, the Liberals have manifested everywhere a programme.for their attack onthe Prime Mimister and the Government inthe ensuing Session. It is meagre enough,sand resolves itself iptothe singlepointof the past foresgnpbliey of the Government, whioh policy is. laid to the sole oharge of the ...

... LONDON, February 17tb, 1879. The Session will be practical and-humdrum. You have read Lord Beaconefield's and Sir Stafford North- cote's speeches of course. All the measures I have , been talking of as. on the cards are to be tabled, a Banking Bill, a Bankruptcy Bill, a County Government Bill, and the rest, all except the Irish University Bill, and even this we may see; for although it is not ...

... THE DISASTER AT ISANDULA. COLONEL PEARSON ENTRENCHED. ARLIVAL OF REINFORC13 I4TS. DISBANDMENT OF NATIVE CONTINGENTS. [RHUTEa'S TELEGRAM.] CAPE TowN (eiid MAnDaIA), February 4. While the latest information received fully confirms the disaster at Isandula, the total lons on that occasion is less serious than at first supposed, and is now estimated at from 260 to 300 man. Colonel Wood's column ...

... HOLY TRINUY COFFEE AND READING I ?? The annual meeting of this society, which was opened in the above parish in December, 1877, for the use of parishioners and others who may wish to avail them- selves of its advantages, was hbld at 16, Holloway. street, on Monday evening, for the election of a com- mittee for 3879, and to transact other business: There was a fair attendance, amongst whom were ...

... DEAF AND DUMB. INSTITUTION. The annual meeting of the supporters of the West of England Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb children was held ou Monday in the Board room, at head qusrters, Topsbam-road. There was only a small atten- dance, and C. Tucker, Bel, occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, The Rev. GEORGr PORTER (hen. sec.) ...

... There he many tongues and many languages of men, but the langusge of prayer is one by itself, In eli and above 11. It is the inspiration of that Spirit that is ever working with our sirit, and constantly lifting as higher thin we know, and, by our wants, by our woes, by our tears, by 'our yearnings, by our- poverty, urgang us, with mightier sad ?? forme, agaiu t those chains or sin whieh keep ...