... FOREBIQN NEWS. :[REUTEB'S TlELEoGtMES.1I :[EASTER~N AP'FMRS. ST. PEFTEPtSBURO, DEC. 31. F The QJournafl die .91. Peiera %u01ry says it is informed I that the Porte has not remained indlifferent to the ...

... CAIET COUNCI, iR'3 wit slim e to nest yes .sed ten. itis- Ire- tci tire ,ivc eray cer- I or acts 'ln nat lost tell Mr. air Mr. for the anc ght. Mr. the Md, the the .bat m.1 the, the pIe. for- file ac- ...

... (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY). PARIS, DEC. 30. The first detachment of engineers and workmen will set out on January 5th to make the necessary preparations for the commencement of the Panama Canal works. ...

... MINERS AND ARBITRATION. The Hoyland Silkitone miners, to the namber of some hundreds, have come oat on strike against a reduction. The men referred their dispute to arbitration, and will not now accept the umpire's award. THE YELLOW FEVER INf ST. LOUIS.-HEAVY MORTALITY. From further information received respecting the ont- breat of yellow fever at St, Louis, Senegal, it appears that seventeen ...

... One of the most extraordinary misadventures in the records of railway accidents occurred at the New Passage Pier of the South Wales Union Railway, at the mouth of the River Severn, late on Monday night. By the late train from Bristol there were amongst the passengers two seafaring men named Bates and Diamond or Hall, who had booked to Cardiff. The line, on reaching New Passage at the Severn ...

... i (6u1tua. DYDD SADWRN, IONA WR 1, 1881. Y MAE bellach ddeng mlynedd Ilawn er pan y a mae y Ddeddf Addysg mewn grym yn Lloegr a e Chymru. Y mae tymor ei gweitbrediad wedi r bod eisees yn ddigon maith i ddangoe Ilawer o'i E heffaitbiau, ond nid yn ddigon maith i ddwyn r i'r golwg ei holl ffrwythau daionus. Llafurio e y tir a han yr had gydag addysg elfenol y bu- t wyd ya ben&E yn y blynyddoedd ...

... j~twbbion QTpffrtbimoI. T - e Ymddiswyddodd Mr. Arthur Wellesley Peel, A.S. Idros Warwick, o'r swydd o is-yogrifenydd y Swyddfs IGartrefol, oberwydd aflechyd. Achoswyd difrod a cholledion mawrion gan lifogydd . mewn gwahanol ranau o Belgium, yr wythnoo ddi. s weddaf. Yn Huy, yr oedd y dwfr wedi gorchuddio ] rhanau helaeth o'r dref, a gorfodwyd i gyhoeddwyr un I o'r neowyddiadaron pmysicaf ...

... SOUTH WALES NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD FPU 1881. An adjourned meeting of the general committee for the carrying out of the South Wales National Eisteddfod of 1881 was held at the Temperance Hall, Merthyr, on Thursday afternoon, under the chairmanship of Mr David Rosser, president. There was a fair attendance. At the last meeting notice was given by Mr Lleweliyn Williams that he would move the ...

... THE FAIR MAID OF YSTRAD TYWI, A TALE OF THE TUDOR ACCESSION. BEING THE FIRST PRIZE TALE AT THE SOUTH WALES NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD, 1880, BY BERIAH GWYNFE EVANS. Author of Bi'onwen, Roundhead d; Cavalier, Owen Grlyndior, &c„ &e, (All rights reserved by the Author.) CHAPTER XXVIII.-A NEW ACTOR, Arthur and Sir Francis returned to Abermarlaiu, deeming themselves fortunate in having escaped. ...

... Effid obtniaql? otwd. TIlE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE TURKOMANS-SEVERE FIGHTING. The special correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs from Derguez on December 20 :-A courier from Askabad brings news of severe fighting near Geok Tepe. The losses were heavy on both sides. The Russians withdrew a ,hoit distance. Decisive fighting is expected soon. The Standard publishes a telegram from St. ...

... THE DISPUTE AT BWTIO!N I MINES. The Executive Committee of the Cleveland and Forth Xorkshire Miners' Association met at the oflces, Ruby-street, Saltburn, yesterday, for the purpose of considering the objections of the man to abide by the aw ard of Mr Forster in connec. tiou with the dispute at Brotton Miaes.-The matter was discussed at considerable length, but in consequence of Mr J. Toyn ...

... T'le mystery vhich surrounded the disap- eran e of I\liss Sarah Crow, who some kveelvs ago left nton Station fur Ludlow, has been c'.eared up. The unfortunate girl has been diacovaed in tho Richmond Dis- trict Lunatic Asyium, at Dublin, to which ill- stitution she had been committed, on magistrates' as a dangerous Itiiiat I C. She passed fro;* Holyhead to Dublin by steamer, and her demeanour ...