... FOUR DAYS ON A CAPSTZED VESSEL. Tim Pncifio Steam Navlgation Company's royal v maU steamer Sorats arrived in the Mernsy on ( Thursday from South America, and landed the } otptain and four of the crew of the brig Emnorald, It appears that the Emerald left Shields for Anocna with a cargo of coal on the 23th of November Inet, t under command of CApt-dn P. inool, For the first i few dams ...

... IRON RAILWAY BRlIDGES. 5 ?? the Ljaiy Acts.) The disastrous end of the sh'ort-lived Tay Bridge h as t apparently given rise to a, largce amount 0f niiioufl'i1, aiapprehension in this and Other countries. btruleteros I which have- been crossed Without he'sitation (luring9 :l - winds and weather for several years past maynew be ?? f to be, for the fir-st time., under saspiesou. Ue-c~li- ...

... th WC tiii he ~ THE DIVING OPERATIONS. te lieth Oil (Byr TELEOG5APU FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) V ?? ~~~DuNDEE, Thursday Night. no in, In syimpathy with the saddened feelings excited by the so ayrecent disaster, it was with a muffled chime that the belle be ,Id of the old steeple of Dundee announuced the advent of the lal New' Year. For live minutes befoiro twelve o'cloeck last to of nig-ht ...

... SOI:ENCE IN 1879. Tar past year has not been marked by any very, startling discovery in the region of science, though it would be a great mistake to infer from this that the army of scientific workers all over the world have been idle. It would be simply impossible in the space at our disposal to give any idea of the amount of work accomplished in science during the year, and equally ...

... Many of the metropolitan charities have just received some large sums as donations which will go a long way to enable them to balance, their accounts at the Christmas quarter. A maiden lady, Miss Harriet Hurst, late of Stamford and Chester terrace, Regent's Park, died a few months ago, leaving a large sum of money, invested in Three per Cent. Consols, at the absolute discretion of her ...

... A clerk named George Heard, living at Round- greet, who with his wife and two children has been reported starving, although they refuse to enter the workhouse, came before the Luton Board of Guardians on Monday. He has an idea that his father rendered great scientific services to the country, and says he spent £14,000 in perfect- ing the purification of coal gas. This he has pressed on both ...

... The North Wales express, which leaves Holyhead for London at two a.m., came into collision on Saturday morning with a goods train between Llanfair and Meoai-bridge stations, on the North Western Railway. A goods train left Holyhead about midnight, passing Llanfair station about two a.m., when, between that station, in Anglesey, and the Menai-bridge station, in Carnarvonshire, the passenger ...

... Another survivor who has arrived in Liverpool de- scribes the prompt efforts made te stop the leak in the steamer Borussia, when it was discovered. The steam pumps were set to work, and for a time it was hoped that the efforts would be successful, but the water flowed in ao rapidly that it washed the coal out of the bunkers, and the pumps were choked. They were cleared several times and again ...

... MR CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., ON THE SLIDING-SCALE. The meeting of the Mill and Forge Wages ird was held at Birmingham on Monday, er the presidency of Mr Chamberlain, M.P., dirator. The men asked for an advance of )d per ton on puddling, and 25 per cent on wages. The president suggested whether time had not coiae when the re-adjustment of mierht be dealt with on a broader principle, something like a ...

... THE GERMAN ARMY. It is expected that very shortly a change will take place in several of the principal commands in the German army. Some of the leading generals have petitioned forretiretnentcnaccountof old age. ...

... FLOODS iTluSTRIA. ELEVEN PERSONS DROWNED. Ice has been flowing by Vienna in large quantities. The ice accnmnlated in the river is two* metres higher than in the canal. The river flowed off to its old Danube-bed and inundated the country, leaving masses of ice behind. Near Fischamond, 10 kilometres below Vienna, the ice had accumulated, forming an embankment four feet higher than the river ...

... SWANS ETWATOTCOMM ITTEE. The Mayor (Alderman John Jo: es Jenkins) presided over a meetin of the Swansea Watch Committee, held at the Guild-hall, on Tuesday morning. There we:e present Aldermen Brown, Powell, Rogers, and Brown, and Councillors Jones, Freeman, Lewis, Davies, W. F. Richards, Daniel, Rees, Rogers (ex-mayor), W. Richards, and L. Tulloch. A letter was read by the town cleric, ...