... MONsQUBI Tr'r.-On Hogmanay night Mrs Fairbairn. I Manse of Monquhitter, entertained the teachers and pupils from Balthaine, Greeness, and Cuminestown Sabbath Schools, together with the choir of the Parish Chuliuh, numbering in all about 250. After a liberal supply of tea and buns, there followed an exhibition' with the magic lantern, including, besides illustrations of several Scriptural ...

... THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUcrIoN OF TVE DIAMAOND. Mr N. S. Ilaskelyne, of dte Siiueral Department of the British Museum, writes is followm to the Timei:- I should be obliged if you would accord mespace ia the Tines in order that I aluy anaswer a great number of letters and applic tions which have pursued me during the past few days ol a subject of somehttle public interest, that subject being the ...

... DFSP.VTCHl OF FOREIGN 'MAILS FROM LONDON8 Despatch of next Mails from Next DeIthvations. London. Malil due t- mne Australia (S. &W.)jLlia S'thampt'n JJan. 8 Mg. Jan. 19 the TsenaicittVictc'cI 1via Brindisi. Jan. 2 Evg. Jan. 12 bea Berniida via New York .. . .Jan. I.v g. Brazil, Afloct.~- I VIZ. Video, Iod . via Liverpool Jan. 13 Evg. Jan. 12 Mr Videov, ;aild (11l ...

... I I SUCCESS OF? THlE KOHISTAN EXPEDITION. THE LATE FIGHTING. 3000 INSURGENTS KILLED. T THE REIGN OF TERROR IN CABUL. hasI .SHOCKING OUTRAGES. Jpio From Viceroy, January l tari News from Roberts to 30th. Reports Balker re- Aro turning -from Kohistan, having destroyed Mir Nov, B1alcha's Fort without opposition. Several headm11en of Kohistari and Logur have Ti sent to ask if they may caine in. a ...

... Clever asiare many of the books of Mr Clemens, st and fhil of pleasantry and sarcastic humour, his at speeches are no less admirable. They are valuable, too, as showing the varied mind of one who does 'not believe that a humorist should always wear en the motley, but should have the privilege of a clear-headed and. sensible man, at times to utter a thing straightforward without the stalking. z ...

... THE ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE I KING OF SPAIN. I [SmTANDAR TEiLERAMS.J VIENNA, Wedne~day nighit. hd The telegram announcing the dastardly attemipt on J the yaung Royal couple at Madrid bas made a deep child Sensation here. Tfhe news arrived this moriting and C( spread rapidly. The Queen's mother, the Archduchess Po IElizabeth, was greatly affected. The Emperor and allI Dc the members of the ...

... ENGLISH AG1ICULTUPRE IN 1o~'. T'1' following letter appealrs i the Tiices:-bi,- B The y-ar 1S79 vill be long remenmbered as the culaiiua.- tion of agriGultnrIl disaster -unxtiamiled during the I , eleet goanration. Tbe causes are well known, and. *;cd not here be slecifie~d The threshing ma;icthies ite. giving the nainful results. The late tlrt .John I cc Efudioa, of Castle Acre, Norfolk (one ...

... THE DFFlCUTLTY WITH TURKEY. im- Tim difference between Sir Henry Layard and too the Porte has assumed a serious aspect ; the ich British Ambassador having deemed it his duty ver to suspend official relations with the Turkish the Government. The facts of the case have already i cry been narrated. It will be remembered, by those nt, of our readers who have given the matter any ion attention, ...

... T H El TAY BRIDGE DISASTER. THE SEARCH FOR THE DEAD. BOISTEROUS WEATHER. OPERATIONS SUSPENDED. THE ASPECT OF THE WRECK. DUNDEE, Thursday. The diving operations to-day were continued and conducted on a more extensive scale than has yet been done, no less than eight or nine being engaged. Of these four were below at one time. The weather in the morning was exceedingly unpropitious. At an early ...

... SAD SHIPPING DISASTERS. TWO VESSELS MISSING. SUPPOSIED LOSS OF THE CREWS. QUEENSTOWN, Thursday. A terrible disaster, involving, it is feared, the loss of many lives, has occurred off the Wexford coast. The facts are that the tug Brother Jonathan, which was towing to London the barque Kate Kearney, which had put into Queenstown damavee and been temporarily repaired, had broken down 45 miles off ...

... The Panama Star and Beerafd of the 4th of Decem- bar publishes the following details of the violent storm at Aspinwall, which commenced on the 11th of Novern- ber anid continued for several (lays :- The Norther was maintained for as longer period, with greater force and wiore widespread and destructive influence than ever 'before known. At the villagcs along the line where the residents could ...

... -.-I, 1; (Intel ON ,??kr , 111411 al. Nn-w YEAu's DA.Y in Dundee was rendered dull yesterday by the melancholy history of the past week, and even the town bells, which have from time immemorial rung 4cout the old and in the new, were silent in consonance with the general feeling. The operations on the live~r were the all-absorbing theme, and these, unhappily, were retarded by a renewal of ...