... I DESTRUMTIDE FrIRE IN MANCHESTER. On Wednecduy morniner .h rsly befoie live o'olock, a Jire broke out i ttbe upper puir o1 hiarket-strcat, which provea to be ono uft thei Inoet deatrcuodivi irhich h5as talien place in lanahestor for suome years. T The Gre broke out in the luwer portion of bueildings, btv.eea! \uniiitain-street and Weoa Mosley-atreat, and exacsly OpyOiite the Augel fHotel, ...

... - - iPER, IA, L -.-1 HOUSII OF OOMMONS.-.FBID~f The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. THN flRRLIN ThRITy. Lord% M.~ONTAGU gave notice that ?? four weeka ho would bring forward his, motion in reference to the Berlin Treaty, and call attention' to Lord- Salisbury's despatch of the 26th of January,~ i879, an move an Wadress. ENGLAND AIND AFGH1ANiSTIN. Mr. FORSTER: A statement appears in one ...

... I THE DEATH OF SHERE ALI. We have received the following from the Lod ofce of tbhe No Yorl Eerald: TAannEN, WZDXRHSDAY, 5 40 P.m. The Armeer Shere Ali died on the 2l1t, after two days of agony, mitigated as far an wa in bhi power by the Russisa doctor, Javoraky, who ,&a sent for at the last moment. Then massaores were at once ?? by the three rival arties-that of Yakoob Khan, that of hio ...

... FOREIGN NBWI. THE, ZULU WAR.' Thle mail Steanmer Balral Castle, Which left Cape Town ou Febrary25th and Madeira last Sanday even- ing, 5ruiedinbltymoath angudetg3Opim. onThuraday, find landed her wags andp 5 gpa0 at 1O 30. She brings several military ,5sagers and invalids, and the wevewalof 22 of ti's Pen who have been killed in the widowsrrrot Ant abstract of her news has been tele- capognR. ...

... - I\ I I T - - . - fLOCA~L; 'NOT:ES.; : Tnou *W r , IM.. Aj&,erai 1Willeri has removed a famnil.r aud ?? fignre froov onr xnidat Hb' lid icng passed the ?? term of lifci Anvd befor e ome of ns were born might with good reasolh have retired from tnbllo. life; but Mr. Willert had been toD Iobive a Dan to pend his. deoliuing yoara ia idleness, and Up to the very Iat he 68r engaged upon those ...

... I LOCAL X A friend of mine who wxas in the lake diro end of last week siggeets that Thirlir n &e supply the city with water but with i*re no0't mons quantities might have been 300e Y this winter had there been an icehouse j'O t that the Corporation have the POwer to b a 4 s in iee, but at all events they might 5eekre° a the Mayor's offioial otodgee, or the little 8 refreshers of the various ...

... - H TEE XZiL WAU . V In adfition to the partioulars given in aother parb of this paper, we subjoin the following - . THE FIGHT, AT ISANDULA. , i The following account of the light at Isaudula ii given by Lieutenant Davis, who esoaped the ,mauuaore :- At between thre and four anm. that morning the Genteral left the oamp with a large force, but, before doing so, he wrte a' note to Colonel ...

... THE WEEKLY TIMES.j I SUMMA1Y 01 THE WEEK. I I FOREIGN. The Calcutta correspondent of the. Times reports that there is no longer any cauee for anxiety as to the crops iu'the North-West Pro. vinces and the Punjab, rain having fallen in suffioient quantity to ward of disaster. The , harvest, he adds, will perhaps be short, but it will be well above the famine point. The King oof BUM3wAR is ...

... INTE MASWRE IN BURMAH. The Calcutta - oorr~esnpaden of the Times, telegraphi iigon aunday, oays :- The Government makes no secret of the anxiety with which it'ia watchiu1g the strange eventit passing in Men~- daisy. Besides the precautionarh mieasures known. in Eag ?? embark at Calcutta to-day and to-morrow-for Rangoon. i The whole reinforoenbth Bodere'd are inearly double the ordinary ...

... t TUEWEF' STORY OF IPARLIAMENT1 I LONDON. MONDLY EvlaNIN0. - Thie evenivg, in aniwer to Mr. ONSLOW, the O han- cellor of the ExOhequer stated that the Government have no iinformation ?? enables them to say whether YAXOOn KNAN had been a1cepted by the people Of Afghanistan as the successor to SEREa ALI. The right hen. gentleman added, in reply nob only to a question put by Mr. ONSLOW but in ...

... I THE OBARGE A.AIN TE FEW: 4!6.h'a R ;o_ .! At theE~a~ At th Birmingham Polio5 Court M~r. K~ynneresley, stipendiary mgh' against the Mayor (Alderman C Deskin, Major Bond, Mr. J. S. Wri1 Williams, for assaulting persons meeting on the Afghan queation Mr. Young, for the defendants, sugg to raise the question as to the powe case should be, taken in which it tha~t perons went to the meeting ...

... I On Wednesday a meeting was held at the Memorial lall, Albert Square, under the auspices of the Man ester and Salord Sanitary Association, for the purpose e hearing a paper by Dr. John Watts on The loss Of te31th by the lose or health. Dr. A. Rainsome pre- ided, and there was a good attendaneo.-Dr. WATTS aid th At ins ?? *1o1i AUIaUtOn to the money value .t health he was doubtless ...