... Cardinal Manning is at the Hotel Windsor, en routefor xr Rome. Y The death is announced in Munich of the well-known d historical antl fresco paiter, Milisael E.chter. 0 Plesiro-pneunnonisn exists oln a farm at W iganthorpe, near o J Malton. So far the outbreak has been localised. iW I Prince Robert Lichnowlsyv, Prelate of thle Pope's house- if hold, has bequeathed his inimense fortune to the ...

... 'iti -T, 'II f.4 so lorn % uLL - - The will (dated October 18, 186), with a codficl (dated December 17 1878), of 'Mr. John Wyld- Brown, formerly of ko. 7, UDer Hyde Pa:k. gardens, bat late of No. 11, Glomoeater.squan, who died on the 7th nlt., was proved on the 25th ult. by the Rev. Claad Brown and James Wylt Brown, the Iona, the gating ezeautors, the pr- aonal estate beiw sworu under £25,000. ...

... TEJII AFGHAN WARG . OFFICIAL INTELUGENOA / GENERAL KAUFFMANN ON TUE SITUATION. The Central Neon has received the following from the India Office. [From the Vicery, February 12.] Cavagnari reports that Mirzi MaomeOa~ Hassam, the Afghan Envoy to Tsshkond, has returned to Cabul. ler rts the Asneer of Bokhara, not Uhere AU, ; that the Rusai I s wi not ierferie4 and that Shere All is preparing ...

... EDITRICT NAEWSo - . I CARDIFF. RIUNrUICelf oP Loz, Bur.£-f rs. 2! spouse to an sppe1l Made b7 Mr. P. J. Beavan, coal agedt, BUte 1oc, the Marque. or' Bate ba most onerously ooftributed tn guineas, to. wards the fund on beis of tfie idjovr and family of the late Danie Wliliams satjion. master; Ely, who ws killed W I 0O a short E time ago. Tn Fwz A^T Exw ?? pro. ne ceediigs on Wedswday at te ...

... DISTRICT NEWS . - .1- 0Cc St. OAZDI'Fp. Fuzz zuzia Oonr'x..A general meetirg of ith free libw a _h on~ii on Tuss= j evening, under the, pre praetde o Ah e,, W ?? M reort o-the librarian (NkMt. AlBiAas)'Tb Mes ot nig Jannary Si, showed that the total n nwaber of issues dzi~ the mmuth 'had. Thi ben 3,992, astiP in the C - nespoeding manth of: las -Jeoh isues wer eaufied S follow V ?? 4th 267; - ...

... 41 I . I Co wa :RAIAI? SOS,, ?? * A- g ; _ F; E -. - . . A lh~~t A~~NtTAL1 lfETINO. i ?? annual meeting of this society ws 'held on Tuesday~ afternoon, at the Toawn Hall. IThe Mayor (Alderman R~. 860Wailer) presided, and amongsttoepeen eeM H. Wilson, M.P., the Rev. J. McCorrmick, the iEev.. Ca onon Page~t, the Rev. john Deck, the Rev. J.,Lister' the Rev. H. W7. HQ11and,. Dean. Randerson, the ...

... Count Schouvaloff had a long audience with Lord is40bury at the Foreign Office yesterday. 1he Hon. R. E. 8. Piunkett, ?? for West ti (,ticacestershire.villbeprevented from attendiogto ! his parliaineiitary duties for a sbort time by an aeci- d dent in the Beaufort huntirng field yesterday, when he was thrown and kicked in the ancle. The liquidators of the Wost of England Bank g inte rud to ...

... LT i: LETTERS TO THE EDITORS, CHAMBER OF COMIf MERCE MEETING. (+entlemen,-Would you kindly correct your re- port of my opening remarks at the Chamber of Commerce by the substitution of Ar. Forwood's 51an1e for that of Mr. Rathbone, as it was the pre- sident of the chamber who was the armed cham- pion of free trade against whom the modern David projected his pebble of retaliation from the brook ...

... ' THE WAR INAAFGHANISTAN. i I -- _ _ ?? - ?? As :s 1- AI12t WoI.AINy 1 J NDTA rX`, ICE TF[,FF,3R&j[la? TVCaY JAN. 12 1 1 Cavaguari reports that Mirza Mallomed Hassan, i f t ?? envoytoTaahkendhasreturkedtoCarnul, j* lie reports tbe Ameer of Bokhara, not Shere Ali, j dead; that the Russian8s will not iuterfere: and llat Shere, All is preparing to go to Herat. VWalI IT labo aed is on his way to ...

... ej TLe Central Xews special correspondent at Leeds :e ?? will was drawn by Deputy. S theriff Ford, who is a member of a local firma ef e solicitors. It extends to but four or five lines, and s devises his property to Hannah Ward or Peace, his LS wife, the mention of her first name obviating the .e Uecesity of legal proof of marriage. The te~t is uot to be published until the day of his ...

... ;C0RiRSp NDENCE, THE TEACHING OF AGRICULTTJURAL CHEMIISTRY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ABERDEEN JOURNAL SIR,-The euclosed letter from Professor Jam.ie de son, Aberdeen, tin the mDeans of providing the teach- to lng of agricultural chemistry, although referring an specially to the Arbroath district, is of s rnuch te general interest that you will perhaps be good enough ac to find space for its ...

... THE OrxNIc OF TvIE i ESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL.-On Tuesday evening a social meeting was held in the Seafieid Street Hall In connection with the opening ceremony of the new Wesleyan Methodist Chapel-Provost Couttg presidinr. There waS a large . attendance, nearly 400 being pesent. After tea, which was served on tables decorated uith beautiful flowers, and presided over by a nukber of l dies, 31 ...