... 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 ...

... On the evening of the 4th instant there was a. great fire in Rangoon, and as most of the houses in that town are built entirely of wood, fully a hundred buildings were destroyed in an hour. Of two-and a-half blocks of houses, only three struc- tures were left standing. One of these is the office of the lo^.al Tim s newspaper, and the Ran- goon Gazcttf explains that as the Times office was in ...

... A brilliant pageant was witnessed by the guests of the Lord Lieutenant and Duchess of Marlboro', at Dublin Castle, on Saturday night. After a grand banquet in the Picture Gallery to the Knights of St. Patrick, the Lord Lieutenant, as Grand Master of the Order, presided at the inves- titure of the Earl of Portarlington, as one of its Knights Companions. The usual ceremonial was gone through, ...

... At an early hour on Saturday morning the York Guildhall was burglariously broken into by thieves, for it is certain that more than one has York Guildhall was burglariously broken into by thieves, for it is certain that more than one has been engaged in the affair. An entrance was effected by removing a coal grate at the back of the Guildhall, through which aperture a cellar was reached leading ...

... By an Order in Council passed on Monday after- noon all cattle arriving from the United States ports on and after March 3rd are directed to be slaughtered in consequence of recent discovery of plouro-pneumonia amongst animals landed from the States. The United States Minister sent a protest from his Government against scheduling American ports as an uncalled for interference with legitimate ...

... Five Patlians Killed. A correspondent telegraphing from Candahar on February Gth, says:—Five Pathan fanatics dashed into our camp here this afternoon, wounding four Europeans and three natives. In the confusion one soldier of the 59th was killed and two were wounded by shots from their comrades. The five Pathans were killed. ...

... It appears from the last number of the news- paper Cyprus, published in the island, that Sir Garnet Wolseley has just enacted an ordinance, with the advice of the Legislative Council, to amend the laws affecting customs and excise duties. Some extensive alterations have been made in many of the import duties. Several articles may now be imported free, and all goods are exempt from export duty ...