... The Times correspondent at Candahar, under date of December 6, sends the folio vin^ There is nothing new to record this week, except that a rumour is current in the city that Ayub Khan, with 12 regiments of infantry and three of cavalry, has marched from Herat with a view to drawing us out of Candabar. Such a movement is not unlikely, but it is to be feared that Ayub's troops will never come ...

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-On Saturday morning, Mrs Derrett, of Usk,while going to the railway station, slipped on the ice and broke her right leg in two places. She was conveyed home and attended by Dr. Shepard, and is now going on as favourably as can be expected. ...

... ^§»l°ttpSers°of7IT^ ?heriff received the Kov*W candidates on Mondav Mr. f^6' Qeens gate London, ES hn D* M'Corkell, Strand House 8«4^iQatedn8e5LatlVe,iTere4thvf °nly candi: colling takes place on the guard, were I/111 818ienal' „ n?e sustaining fractured ribs t>Utnbarf!fmo °°Uiding with a passenger Station on Saturday. The smashed, and a first-class carriage ...

... There is nothing more nourishing and warming. weather than a cup of really good Cocoa, but the has been to obtain it pure. This may be secured »t of one halpenny for a large breakfast cap by usi0*?$0 bury's Cocoa Essence, which goes three times as ibe adulterated and starchy compounds ordinarily 8? gtf smallest packet making fourteen breakfast caps Cocoa. j ...

... WEST AND SOUTH YORKSHIRE COALOWNERS.— On Dec. 5, a representative meeting of the coal- owners of West and South Yorkshire was hold at Wakefield with a view to arriving at a mutual arrangement as to the basis of a sliding scale for the regulation of wages. The result is not an- nounced. CURIOUS POINT IN A MINERS' STRIKE.—A curious point has arisen in connection with the strike of Warwickshire ...

... Speaking on Tuesday at a Conservative dinner at Beeston, Lord Galway said he should like to express the feeling of regret, as representing that constituency, which must have come over them all upon hearing of the loss they had sustained by the death of that eminent nobleman the Duke of Portland. Though the Duke lived a great deal, owing to ill health, out of the world, those who had dealings ...

... The Marquis of Salisbury presided on Tuesday over the annual dinner of the West Herts Agricultural Society, held in the Corn Exchange, Watford, and in proposing the toast Prosperity to the West Herts Agricultural Society, said: It is the misfortune of an interest like the agricultural interest, that it is so powerful; that it has many friends, and its many friends take the opportunity of its ...

... BREAD RIOTS AT RAVENNA. A Telegram from Rome on Wednesday night states that, in consequence of the distress prevail- ing, bread riots have occured in the district of Ravenna. ...

... A NEWPORT SOLICITOR IMPRISONED.—On Tues- day, at the Middlesex Sessions, before Mr Prentice, Q.C., Charles Blake, 33, a solicitor, was indicted for obtaining by false pretences, one valuable se- curity, value €100, the property of Eugene Wasson, with intent to defraud. Mr Masterman prosecuted. ME Gill defended the prisoner.—Mr Gill made a long address on behalf of the prisoner at the close of ...

... MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Saturday, Thomas Lewis and a man named Nicholas Rimron were employed at the bottom of the shaft at Cymmer Colliery, and were in the act of pushing a tram loaded with pitwood across the cage, when the en. gine driver had a signal for the cage to ascend. Rimron was taken up, and Lewis suspended to it. The machinery was not stopped until the cage had ascended about 150 yards ...

... The card room hands in the employ of Messrs. Qrmerod Brothers' mill at Todmorton have accepted a further 5 per cent, wages reduction. It iastated that Dr. Seaton, who not long since succeeded Dr. Simon as medical officer of the Local Government Board, has resigned his appointment. The captain and six hands of the Norwegian barque Clara, lost at Hasborough Sands have been landed at Harwicy the ...

... TWENTY-TWO HOURS IN OPEN BOATS. On Monday seven of the crew of the Swansea brig Ottawa were landed at Liverpool by the steamer Marahense, from Para, their vessel having been wrecked off the Brazilian coast, 180 miles from Para, on Oct. 31. The vessel struck a bank, and became a wreck. The crew of eight hands took to the boats, and, after beating about for 22 hours, were fallen in with by a ...