... The following has been received from-thii, New York Herald Office:- TASHKEND, March 8th (10 p.m.) The Afghan Ambassadors have received from Mazari Cheriff an official letter stating that tranquillity is established there. Yakoob Khan had been proclaimed Ameer, and his brother, the son of Shere Ali, aged eleven, had been presented to the people and the soldiers as GovemoT of Mazari Cheriff, and ...

... Yesterday was witnessed an event of national in- terest, viz., the marriage of his Royal Highness Arthur William Patriek Albert, Duke of Connaugh and Strathearne, Earl of Sussex, Duke of Saxony Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, third son of her Majesty Queen Victoria, and of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Duke of Saxony, and Prince of Saxe ...

... It seems that Signor Armellini, a young arclisnologist at Rome, has found out the farroua Jewish cemetery, already discovered by Antonio Bosio about 1(300, but forgotten since. The Saturday performances or operas in Eng- lish were resumed at the Alexandra Palace on Saturday evening, with Balfe's Satauella, tbe chief characters being sustained bv Madame TenDCihe Cole' Mrs A- Cook. MissGeale, ...

... Mr. Montague Cookson, Q.C., writing to the Standard, says:—Will you allow me to state that I have withdrawn my candidature for the repre- sentation of Chichester at the next general elec- tion, my main reason being that on such questions of foreign politics as still remain open I find my- self but little at variance with the sitting member (Lord H. Lennox), while on the inexpediency of ex- ...

... The Correspondent of The Times writing from Rome ays Great pleasure is expressed by the Roman Press in anticipation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's intended visit to Italy. Although travelling strictly incognita, under the title of the Countess of Kent, Her Mujeaty will be received at the frontier by the Duke of Aosta. who will escort her to Baveno, on the Lago, Maggiore, and King Humbert will ...

... A Brazilian correspondent of the Hew York Herald gives an appalling account of a aeries of terrible visi- tations which have afflicted a large tract of Brazil since March, 1877. The scene of these disasters is the region known as the Sertao, which stretches away inland towards the south, behind the coast ranges, as far down as the latitude of Rio. It comes down to the sea in the neighbourhood ...

... The Times Majùr :— Sir,—We found to b How was t bayonet t almost eve jd the chang ...

... AN inquest was held here, on Monday, into the cir- cumstances attending the death of a weman named Sarah Tapley, sixty years of age. The deceased lived with her husband, a draper's assistant, in Theodora-st., Cardiff, but as it'appeared, was dreadfully neglected, and died from want of nourishment. When the neighbours were at length called in by the husband, the woman was found to be dying, and ...

... ENTERTAINMENT.—On Monday last, an entertain- ment was given in the British Schoolroom, Upper Cwmbran, by an amateur Glee Party, conducted by Mr J. Cocker. The chair was taken by Mr Geo. Williams, Pontnewyr Maslin, Llantarnam, presided at the pianoforte, i. Morgan, Pontypool, at the harmonium, A i,ry good programme was efficiedtly gone through. ...

... To the Editor of the Free Press, Dear Sir,—A perusal of the list of persons nominated members of the above Board quite bears me out in my belief of last week, and I certainly have failed to find in the names of the new candidates anyone possessing business qualities or a stake in the district superior to the retiring members—if, indeed, equal to them-and as our representative ratepayers at ...

... MARK LANK.—MOKPAT. Business at Mark-lane generally is quiet. The attendance was not large, and there was not much disposition to operate. The tine weather had a tendency to eheck Bteadli.e«&. The supply 01 English wheat was only mod.era;e, Millon pur- chased quietly, but on the other band factors were not eager to press sales. lhe bWoi¡,e88 d..ne was mostly at the rates previously current, ...

... ON NATALITY IN FRANCE AND GERMANY. In a recent interesting paper on this subject, M. Bertillon comments on the fact that all the effort of the French agricultural population, the thrifty bourgeoisie, is applied to forming and amassing capital. Germany, on the other hand, seems to have more aptitude for producing men, a race of warriors apt to seize with strong hand capital already formed. The ...