... 12th iust. Dr. W. W. Hunter, Di- oener&lof the Statistical Department of Goverum-n. ot nuia, delivered an address Biimiii«;'iam exchange, at the invitation of amber of Commerce. He declared that a einave system was becoming a necessity i.ia, anil contended that public opinion in could not act sa aly for India so long as m i'ii-h nation remained in contented igno- owt India. ...

... An extraordinary and disgusting case of cruelty to a cat was heard before the Brighton magi- strates on Monday, defendant being an Irishman named Fielding, a marine-store dearler. The animal was found with one of its eyes knocked out and hanging to the socket by an integument, its other e) e closed by a contusion, and its skull smashed into seven or eight pieces. It was then still alive, but ...

... A serious accident occurred at Messrs. Hill's wire works, on the 10th inst. situate on the Marshes, Middlesbro'. Fortunately, although a groat deal of damage was done to machinery, no person was hurt. The engines at the works had performed their functions satisfactorily the previous night and appeared to be all right in the morning. Suddenly there was a loud report, and a huge piece of metal ...

... THE CHARGE OF MURDER AT LLANWERN. THE PRISONER BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. On Saturday, Henry Waters was again brought up before the Newport county magistrates* at the Court- room, Victoria-hall, on a charge of murdering his wife, Eliza. Waters, at Llanwern. The magistrates present were-W. S. Cartwright, Esq., in the chair F. J. Hall, T. Gratrex, L. A. Homfray, T. LI. Brewer, R. W. Hamilton, and J ...

... A COUNTRYMAN AND THE GAS.—When a man who has lost the sense of smell and is abnormally sus- picious of robbers so that he has carefully armed him- self against them, blows out his gas at midnight in his hotel, what in the world is the bravest porter to do with him. Mr. Gressilman, recently arrived on a visit to this city, from Texas, is such a man. He registered in one of the biggest hotels ...

... A correspondent, who sent to the Princo of Wales the report of a discussion on this subject, has received the following reply:— Marlborough House, Pall Mall, S.W., 10th December, 1879.— Sir,—The Prince of Wales desires me to acknow- ledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th, contain- ing an account of debate which has lately taken place at a meeting of the Camden Town Debating Society, with ...

... The British Medical Journal states that during next summer a students garden will be thrown open in the Royal Gardens, Kew, when students will be permitted, under certain regulations which will be drawn up hereaftef, to piocure botanical Specimens for scientific study and obserVatwo- ...

... Ever busy, Death has carried off another lolrrity. Ciilcruft is clead—Calcraft the oiily liiiDgiuan whose name became as much a proverb iia that of Jack Ketch. He who sent so many to the land of silence has now himself gone into i he silent land. He was hardly 80 years of age, being born in the last year of the last celitill. 'I.. For more than half his life he was executioner at the Old ...

... A Telegram from Berlin on Wednesday night states that the cold is intense there. In Upper Silesia on Wednesday morning 45 degrees of frost were registered. A famine prevails in that district. ...

... AN EISTEDDFOD was held at the Town Hall on Thursday evening. The programme consisted of solo, duet, quartette, and glee singing, recitations, and an impromptu speech. A report will appear in our next. DISEASED MEAT.—On Saturday last, several car- cases of mutton and also a beast's head were seized by the authorities in Pontypool and Pontnewyn- ydd, and a large quantity was condemned by the ...

... Considerable importance is attached to the rumour that General Ignatieff is to be the new Russian Ambassador at Rome. A telegram from Vienna states that this step has been resolved upon as a counter demonstration to the Austro- German alliance. Russia, elbowed out of being only indifferently viewed by France, con- templates taking to her bosom the Italian Kingdom. Mr. Sergeant Cox has left an ...

... the time of family gatherings and of thdly greetings is at hand. The rapid flight ^eeks and months of 1879 has borne Ifteet 8' day w^en friends long severed ^Wo ^en home-hearth is radiant with an glow, when a merry and, we would J d^eHi°Pe> a thankful spirit reigns in many their f*^8' an^ w^en loving hearts poor forth distant f^68t utterances into ears erewhile too Voices cat°h the tones of ...