... THE EuPrncATzs.-ler Majesty's Indianr troopship | Euphrates arrived 'at ]PorbtSaid lestelday. TuEr PFiNCE oF WALs.-lTfi Rkoyal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived yesterday evening at Windsor, and proceeded to Cumnberland Lodge, on a visit to the Prince and Princess Christian. To-day he will shoot in the Great Park ovdr Adhe 0aI/cov i. Oh: 'esirsday Le -will. hunt with the Windsor GArrison ...

... HAPRVARD .UNIVERSITY. The extent to which indigent students are pecuni- arily helped at Harvard'is not generally known to the public. There are, in the first place (says the New York Times), 112 scholarships (of which, how- ever, four or five are not yet available), varying in their annual income from 40 dols. to 350 dols. The' whole amount yearly realised from this source and distributed ...

... t' lit 2afx Xfrual.T ABERDEEEN, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7, 1880. INTELLIGENCE has been received from the Viceroy of India intimating the receipt of news from General Roberts at Cabul up to Sunday. Quietness is said to prevail at Cabul, where our troops have reoccupied the Bala Hissar, but in other parts of Afghanistan disturbances are believed to be impending. The troops at Pei war have been warned ...

... at present unknown, who was found drowned in tho Thames on the inst.—Johu Frederick Gouity, lighterman, of Winchester-street, Piiulico, said that at on Saturday morning he was proceeding up the river on raft, and when about IUO yar ...

... p ?? -t IMUNI, tDI)DD SADWDN, Rhag 27ain, 1879. y ?? h tcyefarlod Cystadleuol. CAFrWVD prawf adnewyddol yn y cyfarfod uchod, a gynnaliwvyd nos Wener, sef boxling night, fel ei gel- wir yma, fod Undeb Ysgolion Sabbothol y Method- I istiaid Calfinaidd yn myned rhagddo. Yr oedd y n cynnulliad yn n tra lliosog, a'r cystadin bron ar n bob testyn yn anarferol o lwyddiannus. Y llywydd D eleni ydoedd ...

... 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 ...

... O R LONDON rODENCE. II LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING. MS COFRKE AND MB G LADSTONE—LOKD 3ALISBTJRT ASP THE TURKISH BONDHOLDER & FOUBUMF POLITICS ASTD- STOCK EICHAN6K TRANSACTIONS — POSTAGE STAMPS-NATIONAL OPERA-THE BLECTBIC LXOHT-—BBHBVOIIKJFEFII ASI) HSG18- THA-TION-DEATH AMOXGST THE FORTY. Mr Bourke has done himself more injury by his letter to Mr Gladstone than lie will wipe off by a dozen such ...

... FOREIGN MISOELLANT. ?? ISOVAl rufg-l~DXzNM 6 Cetewayo is learning to read and write. Bar & eherp sbock of earthquake warn felt in Bwitcirland on pow B December 30. ,nei General Count Paul Ignatieff died on Thursday, at two ?? p'r.at the age of eighty-oae. Ret On November 6th a fire occurred at Hakodadi, by which plot t twenty streets and 2,S00 bouses were deetroyed. ver. , Floods have ...

... ri Er. I TO-DAY'S LONDON PAPERS. MERCURY-OFFICE, Tedinesday, 5 a.m. THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN. (D-ULY -NE.5S TEL.EILCU.S.) LnIon, mTuoediay.-.A new ilyvi eolumna, ceisisting- of 1,000 ?? of the three atneD ulnder Colonel ltobtrts, has been forlmetd tor the RhyecT. CL.Dua, Snturday.-Ju'gdetulnC wvas ?? on the 29th by Asiuatullatk lilan and all tile Luilunnan. chiefs. The eniemy was beaten oef at ...

... ' i RfAILWAY COMd-MUNICATION . BETWEEN HALIFAX AND HARROGATE, vid KEICTHLEY. TO THE EDITOIRS OF THE LEEDSM2KERCL-RY. GrxN-TLEz3E. - Withj the prospect of all early cuor- pletion of Irailvay ?? b etw1eenll Haliftll and Keighley by the Great Northern om-al pany, which wiil ir-ove equally remunerative with mary other braneires made by this eniterprising company. itermit me to sutggest another ...

... KINTORfE. NATIONAL SECURITY SAViNGS BANK. - The forty- third aunnual general meeting of the Kintore National Security Savings Bank trustees and managers was held in their office here on Monday evening. The Rev. John Galloway, F.C., occupied the chair, the other trustees and managers present being A. G. Burnett, Esq. of Kemnay William Tait, Esq., Broomend ; Rev. Jomh Craig Smith, E.O,, Kintore; ...