... THURSDAY, January Ist, 1880. ; H STimm is little additional news with respect t to the attempt on the life of the King and Queen of a Spain on Tuesday. Their Majestics attended the Opera subsequent to the attenmpt, and were received t with great enthusiasnm On quitting the theatre they were accompanied to the Palace by a crowvd bearin c torches. The preliminary examination of the prisoner s ...

... Tftid - Obtuingld VeWd. THE COMTE DE ST. VALLIER'S RESIGNATION. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) IERLIN, Tuesday.-Efforts are still being made to induce the Comte de St. Valuer to retain his post as Ambassador, but there seems to be little prospect of success. It is understood to be the German Emperor's intention to mnark his appreciation of the retiring Ambassador's excellent services in the cause of ...

... TIHE IEW _Y:t4A. idig ?? To a severely mathematical mind pro- ,S thne babiv there is no difference botiwieen the day vwhich uhers in a new year and any other day. Scientihcally, time itself is but as an expression-a convenient method. of marking off atomic sections of eternity for - mortal uses. Day succeads day and year year, but the tide of human affairs sweeps pDLU3 on in unbroken ...

... WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The marked iron firms to-day advanced bars, sheets, and plates £1. Bars are now and Earl Dudley's JE9 12s 6d, sheets have become to £11. and plates £10 to £11. Buyers on Monday placed speculative orders at a rise of 30s. Hot blast all- mine pigs are £4 js. an increase of £1 on the quarter. Barrow hematites aad Tredegar pigs are 108 to £6. ...

... MONEY IARKET, LONDON, WEDNESDAY. The Exchanges have again been half deserted to-day. The Old Year is dying. and the uni- versal chant seems to be Let him die. We are promised all sort* of good things in 1880, and the question of questioua just now is—Shall we really yet them The probabilities are all in favour of the new coiner, and we 1 ope he I', il n t prove o thorough a fraud as his tin ...

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... ALMANACKS, DIARIES, &C., FOR 1.880. (1) The Gas Engineer's Diary and Tcxt Book [Birming- namm WYright and Co,, 71, Broad Streeti, a handsome quarto, the diary giving good spnce for each day of the yeOr, nnd interleaved with blotting-paper; the literary matter extending to about 100 double-coluinned pages of such information as is most indispensable for gas en- ginecrs. (2) 'The Joweller and ?? ...

... DYDD IAU, IONAWIL laf, 1SSO. .Y ?? 1879. Mor btelled agey-mae a fyno y deyrnas 'hon 'r flwyddynu-sydd newydd derfynu, yr .ei 6oedd yn un 6.r blynyddbedd mwyaf di- Las lewyrch a dikgoniant o fewn y ganrif. Daeth i mewn yn nghanol oerfel na bu ei o. gyffelyb ekoas ao. leiaf; ddeugain mlynedd. yn Canlynwyd yr oerfel mawr a maith gan. Yu wlybaniaeth na bu ei debyg o fewn yr oes. clh Ac achosodd ...

... SERMON AT MERTBYR. Last Sunday evening, the Rev. Nestor R. Wil- liams, of Merthyr, in delivering: his sermon to his congregation, which was a review of the year now closed, remarked, in noticing the wars in which our country has played so unfortunate a part, viz. On the political aspect of these horrid wars I shall not attempt to dwell. This is not the platform on which party politics should ...

... FIRE.—A hayrick, belonging to Mr Pathson. of Castle Pill Farm, was burnt down on Tuesday night. Rnv the rick took tire is unknown. ...

... F,~Ysatesiy the gurio ?? ~otfh mns~ik-pteet, f Mesr WStne, 1;5 I ut 3DenJ P E WhIa t e, Snd &. Bitre~ qddid srged during 21-numiuber reieved, a,1. tha tr~~tliw w a iialanciit ?? di that! ?? lteo 'whchendsld on the ~i)tis of S~teme, .79 he j. expenditure ~~of teuinto- h'anuto di o ucharge a eiinglsieni Ta fmani) congratuclatedl theta upon It. Mt'Mrscne-ad-eyacspinsto t h T-he ChbrY1ttntnteted ...

... VOIZTEEB BALL.-The members of the 7th 203 B*R.V. held their annual ball in the new ball on Tuesday evening. There were over a hundred Cit couples present. Captain Cowie, Lieutenants Find- da later, Cantlie, and Quartermaster Grant were present rei during the evening. Corporal Legg was floormaster t ha and conductor of ceremonies. In one of the side ln( rooms refreshments were liberally ...