... I - enO- W ~Ir ts__~ I.3].° ON-m IRISH DISTREss.--In 1862 the appeal on behalf of the sufferers by the Lancashire Cotton Famine met with a hearty and enthusiastic response. In 188o the appeal of the D ...

... I RURAL J'OTES _ ?? . SNOW.-The recent snowfall, which in the Eastern and Home counties was very light, and which soon disappeared, was much heavier in all places to the west of Oxford. From six to ni ...

... ?? ?? ..E TitiE author of Erchomenon ; or, the Republic of Materialism (Sampson Low and Co.) differs widely from Miss Bevington on the value of Materialism as a basis of morals. That lady, replyin ...

... MWM? T , , it -ME -: ?? - I-,,j I , ? %, u ii?!?11 -. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S SERVICES.-Considering the extreme gloominess of the weather on Christmas Day, the metro- politan churches were well atten ...

... ! I (From our Special Sunday edition of last week). In accordance with a custom which has obtained in re- cent years, Innocents' Day wee commemorated by a spe- cial service for children ?? abbey on Saturday afternoon. Ordinarily this service takes place on the day of the festival, but owing to Itiocents' Day, falling this year on Sunday, it was decided, for obvious reasons. that the ...

... | NAVY STATIONS FOP, JANUARY, 18SO. , | Acbillcsh. hiucl .u.irelil oitd W C. ofA. ON-telioe m c Iucilrou ?? xi Ii T ?? y f Airica Owell. C or 1. conid AciuioL rt;Sl1;ai. slidf ]irc (e01 1 eortsmn ilihce leL c Alhbcolc.BermIllda lti'iilot-er tol~ud l)slilcV, Ia AlI.Ii1 - lic-eagc to IIidWpeit PO.si. iln:i ' 0101lL l'uniiiugo, N. A. and u'elrlat. lacific Allierta. Portsmnouth 'l . lisio PourS ...

... POVERT-Y AOWTE :- JR&TIVE. I . - - - --Ws 11 TO 'THEBEDITOn AF REYROLDS'5 ?? 1 Slmr--Within 'the last few days the metro- ?? has ?? !several monste- imxass; .meetings :of unemployed workmen. These' meetings, I .noticed, sir, were Somewhat eon- temptuously treafed sby the -author~ties both at: the Mansion House and by the Metropolitan. Board -of Works, until a vigorous protest had' appeared in ...

... I UMDAZ, JANUARY 11, 1880. SUNDAY'S EDITION. LEGISLATWIOX POU 1X0. - The seventh representation of the farce of representative government is about to com- mence. The principal actors are meeting in Downing-street, and have rehearsed the words of their parts, provided that these are not cut out by the prompter. It is said that each Minister struggles for the principal part, and points out that ...

... SBVIAT, ANUVAUT 4, 1880. SUNDAY'S EDITION. - T-- E TAT RB3DGE. An event, unique in its character, has ended in a catastrophe so horrible as to enable-us to realize how to sup full of horrors. A train crossing, on Sunday evening, the Tay bridge, on its way to Dundee, suddenly disappeared, with its freight of some ninety or a hundred human beings, into the. waters below.. There was a hur- ...

... WOkD9 r~ot- Txz WORZN01I- -- TO TER NDITOE OYiRnhoLs S'HW5?AFEB i.SXa,-Oi this, the fret wetk like, in the new year, MO andrmymates, ?? the yard after the Christ-. was holidays, found that one of our mates who works in the carpenters' shop had pasted up two significant and curious paragraphs cut from newspapers. The firstt was a paragraph out of an Old World paper; the second was one froma New ...

... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m. (PL'EC[AL TELECRAM.) ,1,SE iT,, Friday.- Tbe new Army Bill prepared by the Imperial Govern- rreri t is to be submitted to the German Parliament in its next session. As the Corsec vativcs are in a majority, the passage of the bill is considered assured vithout material mcdifications. The new bill again, like the last law passed, f :es the strength of the army for a ...

... The fall of newly erected buildings in London is now becoming so common an occurrence that it attracts but little attention beyond the neighbourhood in which it happens, unless several lives are lost. Yester- day one of these accidents took place in the Seven Sisters-road, Finsbury Park; and although no lives seem to have been lost, the result might have been serious enough. The story is ...