... ITTIE RUSSIAN. EXPEDITION TO MERV. II The correspondent of the Dailgy Chro/'isflc at Sb, Peters. burg states that the preliminary operations in connection with the renewed attomnit this year to reduce the oaSIS of Marv to a Russian dependency wili coummence as early as the weather will permit. Fie says: Altering theplsn of last year, tlco casin oxaedition %eiil be from the north nud north ...

... ILONDON, MONDAY EVE IX.;. Every fresh aeoouut whbiv COUIs tO ?? erutainly tends to hbow how very eomplete it he victory wvhich Generai Roberts has olaiivad aI C4bul, bat there ie sti1llan anxicty ae to the ltutlea, which is hardly cc ?? 'ith th.' f1s ty, a3prer on the pnfavo. p;vf r L.ota Lv .!n a 1eile if os e S!\ %:q5:6rs; N. to) bo -V,11 > : n F j,:kl Iquesftiou w Sbie ry -; %remain wrhen ...

... TWO VERSIONS IN IAMBIC METRE OF J wuus Vwsar, Act iii., Scene i. Antony. O mighty C-sar ! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well. I know not, gentlemen, what you intend, Who else must be let blood, who clse is rank. If I myself, there is no hour so fit As Cesar's death's hour; nor no instrument Of half that worth as ...

... 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 ...

... The Berlin correspondent of the Dailly News says that he las received the following communication from i.t. Petcrsbarg :- You will remember that aboattwo months since, in connection with the expedition that bad been. pronosed by General Kauffman for Northern Afghanistan, and to the information subsequently received, that it was considered better perhaps not to proceed with the neces- sary ...

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... A fire occurred on Monday night on the pre- mises occupied by Mr ÎIneB, coachbuilaer Mr Richardson, builder and contractor and Mr Chas. Griliiths, cab proprietor, situated in the Talbot Arms Yard, off St. Mary-street, and burnt the building to the ground. The cause of the fire is unknown. At the time that the brigade arrived the fire was burning very brightly, and alarmed the inhabitants of ...

... THE WONDERS OF SOUND. Friday IIight tile first of two lectures for children was given by Mr W. H. Preece under the an pices of the Society of Art- There was a crow led audience. In a chatty and tumorol8 manner Mr Preece, whose main object was to ill. duce boys and giria to use their hands and eyes to get information from nature, showed that sound is vibration of the air acting on the drum of ...

... The Mark Lane Express says We publish our annual crop returns for 1879, as contributed by 441 correspondents, representing every county in England and 10 counties in Wales. They fully confirm the worst accounts that have appeal ed from time to time as to the serious failure of the crops, b-ing ti.e most discouraging we have ever published. It is astonishing that out of the 429 district from ...

... the Akthell Journal,. OrNE or two items in our intelligence this morning relating to Afghanistan are of some im- portance. Telegrams from the occupied dis- tricts of the country contain nothing new ; but the movements of Abdul Rahmaa Khan are watched in many quarters with close attention. A . ...