... ITTIE RUSSIAN. EXPEDITION TO MERV. II The correspondent of the Dailgy Chro/'isflc at Sb, Peters. burg states that the preliminary operations in connection with the renewed attomnit this year to reduce the oaSIS of Marv to a Russian dependency wili coummence as early as the weather will permit. Fie says: Altering theplsn of last year, tlco casin oxaedition %eiil be from the north nud north ...

... THE EuPrncATzs.-ler Majesty's Indianr troopship | Euphrates arrived 'at ]PorbtSaid lestelday. TuEr PFiNCE oF WALs.-lTfi Rkoyal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived yesterday evening at Windsor, and proceeded to Cumnberland Lodge, on a visit to the Prince and Princess Christian. To-day he will shoot in the Great Park ovdr Adhe 0aI/cov i. Oh: 'esirsday Le -will. hunt with the Windsor GArrison ...

... ILONDON, MONDAY EVE IX.;. Every fresh aeoouut whbiv COUIs tO ?? erutainly tends to hbow how very eomplete it he victory wvhich Generai Roberts has olaiivad aI C4bul, bat there ie sti1llan anxicty ae to the ltutlea, which is hardly cc ?? 'ith th.' f1s ty, a3prer on the pnfavo. p;vf r L.ota Lv .!n a 1eile if os e S!\ %:q5:6rs; N. to) bo -V,11 > : n F j,:kl Iquesftiou w Sbie ry -; %remain wrhen ...

... A1NjTUM IN PARVO. nI Shortly before, midnight on Taesd!* an engiae- i`1P teriter named Samnll Eyre, who had !:ezn winding I two men out of the Grimneethorpe Colliery, neatr h Sheffield, fell down, t.he shaft and was, smasbed to fa pieces. H While three mess, named Richarfi Sutton, Wendle Wisiker, and Pobert Crome, were engaged in collcctirg ice on1 BEctydon Waiter, near Great T. Yarmouth, on ...

... CYMDELTIIAS Y CERDDOMION- CYNHADLEDD YN NGHAERNARFOXN. A Prydnawn ddydd ?? diweddaf, cynhaliwyd , cynbadledd o gerddoriou Oymreig yn y Guild b Hall, Caernarfon, i'r dyben vo flurfio cymdeithas is gerddorol, yn Nghymra. Yr. oedd yn bresenol yn r y cy!arfod oyntaf y Parch E. Stephen (Tany. r roaria), Dr Joseph. Parry. (Pencerdd America), Afeistri D. Jenkins, Ias. Bae.; W. Jarrett Ro. e berts ...

... SHARESFEARI; LODGE I.O.G.T.-Tlie inernbers of tr, this lodge held their ailcual New Yefsr's soiree oi d TIcarsday evoning in Dr Bell's School, kindly granteA by lit the purpose. The company numribered tibout 80. ilb 'l'he Chairanicii, Brother Smith, andi Brother Russell ohl ;,cIve short addresses; appropritite to the ocqasion, and Hi vafioutl of the mcem bers of the Order. contributed th ...

... RAILWAY TRAFFIC INTERRUPTED. i land The river Irwell, which divides Manchester from prin Salford, has overflewed its banks on both sides to sigh such an extent as to cause great damage to property, to si and to cause serious apprehension in the minds of the the people living in the lower parts of the two towns, Inc particularly as rain is still falling heavily. At ten spir o'clock on Wednesday ...

... TWO VERSIONS IN IAMBIC METRE OF J wuus Vwsar, Act iii., Scene i. Antony. O mighty C-sar ! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well. I know not, gentlemen, what you intend, Who else must be let blood, who clse is rank. If I myself, there is no hour so fit As Cesar's death's hour; nor no instrument Of half that worth as ...

... HAPRVARD .UNIVERSITY. The extent to which indigent students are pecuni- arily helped at Harvard'is not generally known to the public. There are, in the first place (says the New York Times), 112 scholarships (of which, how- ever, four or five are not yet available), varying in their annual income from 40 dols. to 350 dols. The' whole amount yearly realised from this source and distributed ...

... t' lit 2afx Xfrual.T ABERDEEEN, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7, 1880. INTELLIGENCE has been received from the Viceroy of India intimating the receipt of news from General Roberts at Cabul up to Sunday. Quietness is said to prevail at Cabul, where our troops have reoccupied the Bala Hissar, but in other parts of Afghanistan disturbances are believed to be impending. The troops at Pei war have been warned ...

... at present unknown, who was found drowned in tho Thames on the inst.—Johu Frederick Gouity, lighterman, of Winchester-street, Piiulico, said that at on Saturday morning he was proceeding up the river on raft, and when about IUO yar ...

... AFGH-FfSNNST-AN, TELEGRAM FROM THE VICEROY. TituuiSIAY,-NGw5 from Roberts to the 30tb reports Laker returmring from Kohiistan, having reached aisid destroyed Mir ihitclha'a feot without opposition. Several headreen of Kuhictau atld Logar have sent to aik if they may come in, Enenmys losses estiniated at nearly 3000, Seh Baba and Latabsind being re-oceupied, Weather fine, but very cold. ...