... All accounts speak of the gale of Sunday night as one of the most terrible ever experienced within memory of Dundee. The captain of one of the steamers which ply to and from Newport states that the spray on the river was flying to the height of a hundred feet, and that the gusts of wind were at times so terrible as to render it ?? for a person tostand inths face of it. It was in a gale of even ...

... rJ.±U.XUJ i.JIINMI¶JL M.L VALIJL W-. I The constables of the Lawford's gate Division yeater. day had their annual dinner, the expenses of the gather. ing being, as in previous years, kindly defrayed by the magistrates of the division, whose generosity was much nppreciated. The repast was provided in the spacious dormitory attached to the station, and the room was pleasingly decorated, ...

... PMLFEBRINGS FROM PUNOU. A LEAP -IN Tlnl DARa I-1880! Amuunr AT FAULT-A severe winter is conmmonly said to be betokened by flooes of fieldfares and redwings. Ornithological observers report that they have not seen any. Perhaps the severe summer killed them all. Trip CIMABUR Bnowas (TRAIN UP A CHcTD, ?? Antiquated Grandpapa (fresh from Ceylon)~ Now, my darlings, we're going to miae a regular ...

... ISIHILISal IN RUSSIA, ATTACK ON COUNT SCI-IOUVA.LOFF'S mag' CASTLE, appr V1IENA, TIUrSIAY NIoeI'r-The Nihilists are now Pleas tryinginew eneainsto urge on their revolutionary move. Pleas iwenit to the utmost. They are circulating among the clacm Iteasanits a story to thle effect that the Czar had issued a wt decree ordering leanded proprietors to divide their estates an a, amrong the peasants. ...

... ?? 5R-i'v ?Jl IN F. ?? ?? i 1) - I ? 1. :3, Y. ~,I~ur ~ialip~Lcl~'l'~Ii ' IJ b tv ?? ;:0 ?? lta ;;rt i 1 ofl ?? or..l; iw . AJ;f)tifi ?? :*l tu Ch'. I StateH, :..til hd g. Il ?? ?? l .W MissiaBippi, whichl I . ;VI:S I ?? r. 1t. i ?? amonagpassengersbysteambola' ;r. 1 is becoming a regular trade, emplosing (jodw a ?? army of hunters and collectors, SoLme enterprising pe re Eons have ...

... Alstflo ?? BATH, B3LU COAT Scesoom.-The annual distribution of prizes to the boys and girls of this school was held on Tuesday afternoon. The Mayor occupied the chair, and was snported by the Rev. Canon Brooke, the Rev. F, Sheum, Lieut..Colonel Buckle, Mr. -, Barningham, and a number of ladies, In his opening opeech the Mayor referred with regret to the death of Mr. David Johnston, a former ...

... TEE SUPPOSED ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF THE DIAMOND. Mr. Nevill Story Maskelyne, of the Mineral Depart- ment of the British Museum, writes as follows on this ?? ten days ago I had heard nothing what- ever of the claim of Mr. MoTear, of the St llollax Worka, Glasgow, to the artificial production of the dia mond. My name, however, was already in several news. ac papers asthatof a person inwhose ...

... LATEST GE NERAL NE\W8, [BY TELEGRAPIH.1 ALLEGED HlOMICIDE. At the Leeds Police-court, yesterday, RliM' arlr rodger, a coin miller's aesistatif, was colnlrnittedl for trial for having caujred the death of his wife by til ijdsa tile stemn of a tobacco pipe up her nostril flurig, a 1loa ...

... Segal o4im The Rev, S, P, Myles thanikfully acknowledges £5 on, s. from the Rev, Canon Mather, 5s, in stamps from , Tm i1,d. from M.W., Cotiram, per M;iss Hunt, for the ho is poor of St. Alatthins-on-thle.VWeir, Bristol,. te- it Mr. and irs, Terrett thankfully acknowledge tire i1 . following contributions for the poor of Bedininster not of connected with any piece of worship -Mr. H. Dniel, ...

... itw =OF The Re0-venuo accountts for the year wvhlich expired yesterday ate published. The figures slhow a total gross yield for the year of £82,607,017, which, as conmpared wvithlast year, is a net increase of £ 2,1 i82,978 S There is, however, a decreaso on theI nine Illollthls since M:arch of ti-L tS,05, aud on theo quarter just euded of £453zlI,005. A Manchester contemporary says that a ...

... ATAIne EOR GIDIRLTAR AND MA A.-On the 1st of February next the weekly mail service by direct packet between Southampton and Gibraltar and Malta will cese; and thenceforward the mails for Gibraltar and Malta will be sent exclusively Ad France. Letters for soldiers and seamen in her Majesty's service, posted under the prescribed conditions, will be seat in thees mails for the usual rate of one ...

... (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] we Si. FRETESDUR~iG, WEDntaSuAt-A telegram published twi lerer to-day reports the arrival at Tashiksnd, on the 23rd set ,Nevember, of the Afghan Sirdar Neik Mahomet Khan, rot brother of the late Shere Ali, and hlis cousin, Ulearns psi Vunseec Ifalea, accompanied by eight persons. They fi Is lef Gbtl shortly before General Roberta's entry.cr TylE AFGHAN ATTACK ON SHERPUR, ...