... Tftid - Obtuingld VeWd. THE COMTE DE ST. VALLIER'S RESIGNATION. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) IERLIN, Tuesday.-Efforts are still being made to induce the Comte de St. Valuer to retain his post as Ambassador, but there seems to be little prospect of success. It is understood to be the German Emperor's intention to mnark his appreciation of the retiring Ambassador's excellent services in the cause of ...

... CHRONICLE OF EVENTS IN THE YEAR I879. JANUARY. 2. A thirty-eight-ton gun bursts on board the TlstsnScrer at Ismid, killing twelve men and wounding thirty-five. 2, General Grant presented. with the freedom of the city of Dublin. The resumption Of specie payments begins in the United States. 4. The Cornish Bank at Truro stops payment, with liabilities of Monrcas executed at Madrid for attempting ...

... THE NE W THREE-YEAR-OLDS. IF the lamented death of General Peel had not voided the nomination of his colt Peter for the Two Thousand Guineas, the Derby, and the St. Leger,,it is fair to presume that the two first of these races at all events would have fallen to his share; for though he does not appear to be gifted with the stamina which might have been expected from a colt-of his breeding, he ...

... ?? at the close of the eventful year 1879 official relations between England and Turkey were suspended. It is not impro- bable that before the first day of the new year has come to an end those relations will be resumed. Meanwhile, however, there is the fact of suspension ; and the further fact that the causes of it, though they seem to have been in operation for many weeks, are imperfectly ...

... THE AMERICAN STA TE ELECTIONS AND THE PRESIDENCY. THIS year the citizens of the United States are to choose a new President. The framers of the Constitution, unwilling that the chief magistrate should be the creature of a plebiscitum, ordained that he should be named by electors appointed, in varying numbers, in each State for the purpose. But as in practice these electors receive a mandat im ...

... - I It is announced from Constrantinople that Sir Henry Layard, having received no reply to the note presented by him to the Porte in reference to the measures taken by the Turkish Government against .. Koeller and Ahmed Tewfik, the Theussuiman priest, suspended official relations ith the Porte on Tuesday. The Biitish Embassy nevertheless, it is added, maintains semi-official intercourse with ...

... I EPITOME OF OPINION IN THE MORNING TOURNALS.., THE FRENCH MIINISTRY. The' Slazdaid observes that an increased familiarity with the corm?. sition of the new French Cabinet will have led the public to discern that it presents a greater contrast to that of its predecessor than was at first sup- posed. It, is a genuine Cabinet of the Left, including in that term the pure Left and the advanced ...

... INCREASED USE OF SILVER AS A REMEDY FOR THE DETERIORATION OF GOLD. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Permit me to invite attention to a suggestion contained in a letter published in this day's Statist for the partial remedy of the deterio- ration from which our gold coinage is now suffering. In a leading article of the 18th inst., the Ti7mes proposed as a remedy for this evil that ...

... OCCAISIONAL NOTES. The terrible depression which has prevailed in this country in corn- mercial matters during the past year could not be more impressvl hw than it is by a short note printed in the Times this morning. It app ~ars that the number of bills of sale registered in the Queen's Bench for the twelve months ended yesterday exceeded 50,000. This is more than four times the number ...

... FURST EDITION, 2.30 p.ma (RELTER'S TELEGRAM.) CAI CCITA, Janm r.-A despatch from General Roberts of December 30 zrnounces that General Baker, who was despatched with a force to Kohistan, has co..pletely destroyed the chief, Mir Batcha's, fort, which was found deserted. Several Kohistan headmen are anxious to come in and make their sub- General Bright on the 3oth of December completely ...

... FIRST EDITION, 2,30 p.fm A NEW PANSLAVIST MOVEMENTL (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) BErXLIN, Friday.-The Slavonian Charitable Society at Moscow, which is in reality a puiely political body, and the centre of the Panslavist movement, has resolved to aflord 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 ...

... IN any attempt to represent the condition of Spain it is necessary to take into consideration the profound differences of character and interests which separate one part of the country from another. The existence of a national Government and the use of a common name for all the inhabitants of the Peninsula mislead us into supposing it to be far more thoroughly united than it really is. One of ...