... 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, ...

... MUSICALFES'l'IYALAT OSWESTRY MR H. LESLIE ON THE ORIGIN OF EISTEDDFODAU. A successful literary and musical festival was held on Monday at Oswestry. Viscount Newport, M.P., presided, and w-ns su; ported by Lord Har- tech. Mr Joseph Barnby, of the Royal Albert Rail, was the musical adjudicator, and awarded a prize of four guineas, for the best choral singing of Lord, for Thy tender n.ercy's ...

... A NEW PANSLAVIST MOVEMENT. BERLIN, Friday.—The Slavonian Charitable Society t Moscow, which is in reality a purely political body, and the centre of the Pauslavist movement, lias resolved to afford assistance to the sufferers by the distress in Upper Silesia so far as they are Slavs. There can be little doubt that in this instance the proposed charity is intended merely as a c.oak for ...

... NEWS FROM SPAIN. MADR u, Thursday.-The senators and deputies for Cuba were yesterday heard by the Com unite; of the Chamber upon the Bill for the Abolition of Slavery in that colony. King Alfonso will this evening receive the con- gratulations of the Foreign Diplomatic Body on His Majesty's recent escape from assas.-ination. The examining magistrate in the case of Otero visited the Palace ...

... EISTEDDFOD AT LLANGADOCK. An eisteddfod was held at Llangadock, on Thursday, when the chairman was the lie v. Aaron Roberts, vicar conductor, the Rev. T. Thorna*, Llandovery; adjudicators (music), Eos Dyftd', Ystalyfera poetry, Wa.cyn Wyn and the Rev. r';oiDas, Pontacdulais porse, recitations, &c., the Rev. W. Thomas, Gwynfe, and Mr Williams, B.A., Grammar Schodl, Llangadock. Address by the ...

... THE EMPERTH OF GErUIANY AND 1'HE JEWS. The Empeter aid Empress of 'Jerinany, with se\ evai rn mbers .f the Royal Family, assisted at a. charity conferfgiveil in the Jewi h Synagogue, arranged for t' J benevolent 1 urpose of aiding the poor in TJpperSilesia. The representatives of the Jewish comuunlty received their Majesties 0:1 their a; rival Profes-or .j ...

... A CALL TO CHRISTIAN ENGLAND. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.] Lpon Mr Gladstone's late campaign, and the political situation, Mr Spurgeon writes from Aientone The grand blasts from Mr Glad- stone s war horn should arouse our nation. The one note is a call to lr.Jr righteousness an I pcace the guides of th*, mat ioiifinstead of St'lfisimesR ai1\.1 blu«toj;a r. Will men hear the call ? Alas it is to be ...

... Several actions are pending against members of the Sheerness Pier Commission for .acting as Com- missioners whmv it is nlleged, tbey haa beoome dUiimliflsd. The plaintiff is tUe BurToyor to the ...

... MR CYRIL FLOWER, tiie Liberal candidate for the borough, has supplemented his donation jMOby widespread action in the effort to stem the existing and impending distress over a large areS of the adiacent uistrict. As far as Brecon is con- oerned the steps taken by Mr Flower to provide the poor with the necessaries of life have already had a palpable effect in raising tne necessitous of the town ...