... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ?? INTE AltINTGFMlFNTS OF T freejRMY Ir AFGl-NISTAN; F oULO SrE()IAL CORIRESPONDENT.) LAHORE, JsN. 9. ,eft loosted in saoderate comfort on the. plain 1 I;,ls&abxd. and with slowly accuhulating Bip- dta, headquarters of the 1st Division, and of r, ortwvo brigades of infantry, two batteries iattflerv aud a fragmentary brigade of cavalry. t i aphersol has here his brigade intact, Bof the 4th ...

... PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT OF THE SOMERSET COUNSTY LIUNATIC ASYLUM. At the meeting of the Axbridge guardians on Taesday, Mr. E. H. Llewellyn (chairman) called the attention of the board to a subject which had got into tle public newspapers, and was being discussed by the various boards of guardians in the county, with regard to the t proposal for providing additional accommodation for the i pauper ...

... THE DISTRESS IN THE COUNTRY a meeting Committee on ‘luesday éveming—Provest Watt were befere the Relief expended by the committee was £13 158 6d. A distribation of by the Joint Relief Committees from the December te the February in provisions was £50 7s 6d. tons of coals have Potmapm.—This district is bas not, in = for the relief of the unem- Se oly pleyéd ; butafew ef the themselves into ...

... PRESENTATION.—Miis H.u rios. the daughter of the superintendent of the Ely School-, has been presented with a very handsome copy of Dr Farrar's Life of Christ, as a recognition of her services in playing the harmonium at the Wesleyan Chapel, Ely. LECTURE.—On Wednesday evening the Rev James Birch, of Bristol, delivered an eloquent lecture on Albert the Good, or lessons from Royalty, in the ...

... HYN A'R LLUL. iad Byddaf yn meddwl weithiau mai gorchwyl liy ymwyaf y bobl hyny nad oes ganddynt ddim ilw Iyff- wneyd ond lladd amser, ydyw dyfail y modd a yr effeithiolaf i wneyd hyny, -yn enwedig y rhai ster hyny ag y mae Ilygad y cyboedd ar eu hysgog. I iadau. Onid oes rhywbeth yn arwyddocal iaw0 lod- pan weiwvn grybwylliad fod y y Frenhines a'r aisio Dywysoges Beatrice wedi cerdded allan ...

... Y CY-LCHi WYTRNOSOL GAN MERLLYN. Bu dirprwyaeth ?? y Trysor- lys yn ddiweddar, er erfyn ei ystyriaeth at bwnc y myglys. Addawodd Syr S. Northcote edrych i'r peth. Ond or holl gwynion a thyst- iolaethau y Meistri Cope, Wills, &C., ofnaf na fuont yn ddigon cryf i ddwyn y Canghellydd i'w canlyn. Odofynai y gwneuthurwyr hyn am ostyngiad yn nhreth y myglys ar ran ac elw y gweithiwr. Tybed fod ...