... LONDON, FRTDAY~ It has been fated for several years past that the week following Christmas, which ought to bring us little else to think about than our social arrangements and our plans for the New Year, should be marked by some calamity which has cast a gloom over the closing days of the twelve months. We have this year to mourn the greatest of them all. Without a moment's warain, more than ...

... | ATAL BOILER EXPtOSION AT ROCHDALM. On Wednesday morning, at 4, the boiler , tie chamnworkS of -Mri. -Tomas B Dodeonstreet, i.Bkchdale- exploedd, killing -Mr. Thomas Baker and his son . James' Baker, and injuring a workman nanmed John Butterworthl The works aro two storeys. high, about 20- feet in length afid 20 feet- in. width. A small Cornish boiler was under a wooden shed sp againesthe ...

... The Boer meeting dispersed quietly after adopting a resolution to meet on April 6. Mr. Kruger has been elected president by the Boers, and has been instructed to summon the Volksraad; Sir Garnet Wolseley, at a dinner at Pretoria, has announced that henceforward the Transvaal would be iegsrded as a Crown colony. THE FIGHTING WITH THE NAG-AS. ,Details have reached the Times of India of the ...

... A1 Mi GLADSTORM$5Rp t ,O: rss3I -m i:~ t . II 1 'p~NTA~ION'AT AWARDEN. el The70t anivesey of Mr. Gladstone'S birthday T ?? and,-5 inn -kf ly Btiif wege where he aund all thirenmebers ofhis f ?? ths g the Liberals. of Liverpool the place aSE ''of - his - birth,.:~ con~eeivedthe 7oftheirdistibn- d quet an the birthday annvesflyof ithr distho-e a -guished townsmaot wio o asind it -was hlopedi ...

... - -P. ;- T'lE AFGJIAN ._CAMPAIG. BRITJITh a . .s: THE. TRIBES.,: PbANATICAL OUTBURST AT OA1'DAHAR. General Roberto was exposed to desultory attacks on the 22nd December. During the day information was received that a; general attack- would be made at day. break on the 23rd, the signal being a Jiro lighted on' Asmi 'heigitsi Large numbers ' f .the enemy wore seen occupying the more distant ...

... I CONSECRATION OFT I RTON'PHARES . - C. O URCH.' ' . ' I - .. . ~ ~ ~ . . I I - . - . 1 ?? - .. - | ?? the nx'w iar~isl hurch of St. John the Baptist Atherton, was consecreted b the -Bishop of Mauhester. The ortion of the ohuret now built eon- i eists of-a lnave 28ft. wide and 38ft. long, with aisles on the north. ind': iouh side5 1Sft. wide divided Crain the' iiaveby lofty arcades; a ...

... THE WEEKLY TIMES. FOREIGN. A Vienna journal bears from Tiflis that General KAUrFMAN has been singled out for the command of the expedition which is to be led next spring from the Amu-Darya to co-operate with that starting from the Caspian against Merv. The French Ministry has been definitely con- stituted, With M. DE FREYCINi3T as President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs. M. ...

... I - . .. The election of six members of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board tookplace on Thursclay. The Chairman, Mr. T. D. Hornby, presided, and there was a large attendance of members of the mercantile community. The retiring members were Messrs. Brocklebank, Graon, Turner, Bralcker, Gardner, and Glynn, and these gentlemen haying been proposed for nomination, and seconded, a number of ...

... 4 I . . .Local Emb M.5trict. Mr. Aid. William Hesketh, of Bolton, died somewhat suddenly, at his residence, Linwood, Astley Bridge, on Tnesday morning. CRILDREN'S SERVICE AUT THE cATRDRAI.- A special service for ccildren was held atthe Manchester Cathedral on Sunday afternoon, and it attracted , large congregation. The Rev. Canon Crane gave an address, I1 and instead of the usnal anthem ...

... Ilioallamm- . I . 11 'The Chajcellor of the Exchequer iu expected to attend a C servative banquiet at Nottingham P Thursday, January 2. f A memorial will be presented to the Govern- I ment by a deputation of ladies soon after Parliament G opens praying that they may be enfranchised before the general election. 0 The bicycle contest at Hull terminated at eleven pm. on Saturday, as follows: ...

... I ?? THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN. THE STATE OF CABIJUL. FIGHTING IN THE KIYBER VALLEY. LBY PRIVATE TELEGRAPH.] We have received the following from the India Office for publication:- From Viceroy, 2d January, 1880. Roberts reports, 31st, Headmen of Kohistan villages and districts revisited by General Baker have come in. Squadron 12th Bengal Cavalry reached Lataband 29th. Country quiet. Commnu- ...

... THE EATR. oN THE MANCHESTER SHEFFIELD, VLO. .. AND LIXICOLNSHIRE RAtLWAY. . Ieleven soil twelve on Wednesday forenoon Betve .ehter Sheffield, and Lincolushir6 Railwayim jhe-5 neittler side of ?? tinoel, whtih is fist ~~seraudflheffield wasthesoene S ~ltrsning flood. Near either end of the tu.ine'1 a of 0n fle stlrleam ranl beneath the line, the one on the 5jfl0n iegiiltimately disohargedinto ...