... I Affairs in Afghanistan are approaching a | crisis, and a battle is imminent between the two rivals who are contending for the throne ?? of the country. Ayoon Khan, advancing with all his troops, has reached the bank of s' the Helmund, at the same point where he tic crossed the river last year, and he will now by either march upon Girislik and Candahar, or, aN adopting a bolder course of ...

... NK-- , -U- MARY l tt hvnng ?? hukut: tf-'av.l ta 1 -7'tI'I Oai aid abtdtlianitl ofr ii~t ' t ?? tll Mira in' ?? C ~ ~ tkl tort' to it ~,Z IZC ThO ~t.x t~n tlktl;} xi h VaxO~i'a: at, a 0, 2rh id Li'cii quat.-; * ?? N '101 S'(l the a * ' 'Vsit t''itlat Qalditlt r 'F 'me p, 17'14xi:' to the ( nt ?? aT tihe iii ?? ehlC C * . , V ?? ?? I\ ?? Iva t ?? t I` * -, 't t:'J Na~ lS ?? VO PI Bultt' * ?? ...

... ?? ?? N't 3; N LETTFIL i 'N IN il (cAL EllY) ' Zs?1it. 'iu 'd 'i' xi IT T ?? b io T thi ni'tonrxoolt'. sittiag'' lc * -, .xi'b' of Cj'x't.ixnll there Aivs i~ttle, to detc xi i- xi . I n i-S . to NV ifl pit1' t ?? 'xv'd'trlad fi Iiti itxt i ?? Si~tffo'ti _Noxthco~e Lt .2 1 i'lit-it t. s nid lx 'r al o ?? te 'a I a~-ntrxoatth, tot it I'1 ' Thti x. b h'n iour, hox; ert * t'W -i. ' 'noi-'axaren ...

... LORD BEACON.SEIELD AND WALES. .h HIS VISIT TO GIOlEN MIEADOW. is We~E; COAV AND SNUF2ERSi EPISODEC. to1 re TALE OF AN OLD MAN. s la I.- - Y5 (Y OuR NWANDEFRING COllRYS0Nl;DNHlT.) O 3. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity. And sO it ci 7 senemed to mO upon visiting a few days since the T it poor and tumble-down home of ait old mar, living ri ir in Llandeff Yard, whose father and brother in the )f ...

... ANNUAL REPORT. th The thirteenth annual report has just been SC issued. Thle following are extracts:-' The society a ay firly be considered to be in a satisfactory T Istate. Duing the year 1880 33 new members in joined the society, eight left the neighbourhood, th and 33 resigned. The committee have much plea- of sure in calling attention to tim fact that no mem- In hers have been lost by ...

... REVIEW O THE YEAR. Hott PARLIAMENT. The political activity of the year 1881 began the tree. unusually early. The Christmas holidays were not over when the Parliamentaxy session was opened. ton Its labours, which began on the 6th of January, the did not terminate until the 27th of August, yet two n practically the session was engrossed in one Bill. of The political history of the year might ...

... LETTrERS 'D THE EDITOR. '.Al Ieoccespondenttalniustwrlitteon ONE SLIDE Of Lb. PROiA tel pa pr*iIIIV. or rtirir letters w~ill be rejected. We cannotapublish anly lelsee unlessilthe writer senlds hisl REAL NAME AND AIJDRESS, not nteccssrily f~r pab- licatiutli, but an a Guarmntee Of good fitihlli ThI ?? rarestunidertake to return rejected 001- Libtra ?? iongundsir a'0circul~lStflhctOis~. Moritt ...

... I | I I LI (FROM OUR OWN COURRSPONDENT.) LONDON, THu-RSDAY.L If Mr. G ladstone's retirement, to which theL - Stuiidad clings with such persistency, is shortly to helan accomplished faet, two con- siderations present them~nselves. The first is, pr [Iow Nvill the Eirmin 'ham 'School reconcile an *theii's-iv's to I ord t ,raniicg ats a leader an ~ eid th c \ld 1Will the Liberal patty's chance, of ...

... CARI)IFF. THiE ROMAN WA.LL.-On Thursday everaing a lecture was givell in the '[-uin-Ihall by nt Dr. J. Cvcllingwood Bruce, of NeAcasiLe-upon- n Tvnesunderthe auspicesofthe( Carliff Natur:tY ?? he S.scietv-su!)ject, The Roman Wall:' Th? m~ %sV: a a nunierous attendance, and the lecture, whuicl ct wvas illustrated with large coloured diagrams, was Id Much enljoyed. The lecturor's description ...

... On Monday 3,000 people assembled on Mr. Butler's estate, near Clonmell, and killed twenty deer, besides hares, rabbits, and other game. On Monday the Boyle harriers were prevented es( from hunting by a large body of men, armed with Ba sticks, who afterwards scoured the district and reM ' 1 ' thl destroyed all the game they could find. On Tues- ye day morning the postponed meeting of the hunt ...

... I I I CLERGYMAN\ S-N-T TO0 PRI.SON. in At the Westminster police-court on Thursday elK Jeremiah Murphy, egtl 33, clerk in holy ordeis C , and M.A., Dublin. living ut 27, Queeii's-terr ice, c *-e 'echllniwa A cliagi an e ioand witi stealing C clv t our books, at' ip x'clltie of 5s., thl pr opurty of WV. I H. Smcith and Son, at Victolria MSttio.n. Mr. Olive1r| r pciSecluted. On SAccdW I ...

... ITHE STUDENTS OF PONTY-- | POOL COLLEGE. I ItSTAMTEENT BY THE EXPELLED' is SENIOR STUDENTS. iij ?? Mvocetsns.) I The high-handed conduct of the central ?? m nitee of the above college in expelling siahteon la - I n students preparing for the Christian ministry in Id Wales and Monnmouthishiro has stirred up the 's country wonderfully. Such a thing was, it is Lt believed, never bef.ore heard of ...