... 1 880. ANNUAL COMIEUCIAL RETROSPECT. Tmq time last year we said that we had passed ever L most disastrous and unnatural twelve mouths of bad trado, not only in corneution with cur own manufactures, but throughout the whole -world. )AWe spoke of several reasons for this de- preciation in vaho and demand for our special frbrics, and we also muentioned strilkes. We have now to say that, so far ...

... . . , MEETING OF THE BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The Board met on Thurelday, Mr T. G. Dixon in the chair. There were also present:-Rev. J. Pugh, Messrs W. Price Jones, R. J. Sisson, Dr. Davies, John Price, William Bell, William, Littler, John VaughaH, John Knowles, E. Angel, Edwin Morgan, Rev. W. E. Jones, John Davies (Lodge), John Roberts (Geinas), E. Wind-' ser Davies, T. Sleight, T. HowatioD, and ...

... cgRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. )atdIni Pcestofl this ea Cfisluss Day WAN 0c100ru- ?? II lie- h-or; i ae thnordinary rejoiai1198. In thoofei moaste l nthabg npleso entertainment P 9aratOns ofnraste 'ibalrbe, in t o had been made, and people :mt th ,higl, festive scaleint th peer repoonsadrne Oa er were ret ,sre oetrwith zesf notegnrlrjlig n agm ,,igwhich prevailed. Despite the untowerd tiaie thrf~ ...

... ?? THE CHRONICLE. PRESTO3 , SATURDAY. JANUARY 1, 1881. A -1. .. HA_ - I fA - - '4wn'a I The old year is dead. 1880 is gone into lime i ever-rising, ever-receding sea. A dispassionate l review, therefore, becomes apposite, if it be not a a necessity, which we think it is, at this period. The old year which last night expired, dawned when Lord Beaconsfield was still in office, but P 6hardtly in ...

... I I THE newspapers of New York, Baltimore, and other leading cities of the United Statee, have for some time past contained accounts of the doings of an accomplished English swindler, who, after passing himself off under several aristocratic English names, and succeeding thereby in introducing himself into the most fashionable society, where he became the lion of the day, has now been ...

... 51sT WsEK, 1880. In the week ending Saturday, 25th alt., 4214 birth, is and 2668 deaths were registered in twenty of the largest ?? towns, estimated by the Registrar-General to ag ;ontain a population of about seven and a-half millions If persons in the middle of the year. The births were 97i, and the deaths no less than 607, below the average weekly numbers during 1879; these low numbers were ...

... I -IT I MILnITARY.- Colonel Barry Drew, C.L., commanding the troops at Parkhurst, and Colonel G. Maude, Cal, dined with the Queen and the Royal Family ou Monday. Mr. Childers's Army reform proposals will, the Shef ?? Telegraph understands, change the present system of six years' service in the ranks and aix years' in the reserve to seven in the ranks and five in the reserve. No man is to be ...

... - . .11 On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday the Primitive ts Wesleyan Methodists held a bazaar of fancy and useful i articles at their school-room, Upper Pyle-street, which was liberally supported. The bazaar was opened by the i Mayor on Monday in the presence of the Mayoreos an if other ladies, and of the Revs. A. Jones. F. Trestrail, D.D., it and others. d DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE-The Junior ...

... I The disteibutitof of prices and tho Certificates awardedI btule Science and Art Department to the boys of thle e~sleyan Schnoo took itlite on Thursdlay, Decenriber '23rdI in thle Town Hail. The President Of Trinity occupied th~' chair, and there wore also oil the platform the Rev. Ij, I Floydj, Councillor Buckell, Mr. Joseph ltichatdson (Head i master). Miss Smith, &o. thexe was it large ...

... I FOREIGN INThILLIGLNCE. FRANCE.. The French ironclad Richelieu has been destroyed by fire at Toulon, and sunk. Fortunately no lfe was lost, nor was any serious injury sustained by any person. The origin of the fire has not been made known. TURKEY. It is reported that the Porte has not yet come to any decision in reference to the proposal for Arbitration on the Greek Frontier question, which ...

... AGRICULTURBE AT MfiNNESOTA MANT M1ANAITOBA. an~d II doa The followi ng extracts from a letter from tlhe L0s North-west of America wtill be read wvith interest:- coo°ls in asetoyr St. Paul, Dec. 11, 1880. vhile, nase ovu inquiries about farming in the en-t prairie country, I may state that it is by no means ,iiiecl ! comuplex affair, but a matter easily understood g all ' and practised by ...

... The following report was issiaed from the la iteorologiotl Department at 8 p.mD. yesterday:- D1STIUOTS. FORsEOASTS. 0. Scotland, N Northerly anl north-westerly breezes, light 1. Scotland, E. .. ( or moderate; cloudy, cold, some snowr. North-westerly breezes, light to voriable 2. England* ( nvieds ; line and cold to dull. S. England, E.. (North-wastsrly winds, light or moderate 3. England, ...