... . -- . t e J UtJD HAtTINGTON ON .THE AGRT- C . i -iUURAL SIi'UATION..: : Lord H~arlington was present yesterlay oh bbs enuirpl. shlow talld dinner of the Yeovil Agricultural Associetiol)e In the Oorinxe ect the dayibe received a depntotion and address from the Tauntorn Liberal Associration. In the coarse of his relply, , Lord Hertirgtoea said his 'visit woudso hi h Vabeial lesdeii'i were not ...

... 0)c At the Leeds Assizes thic week, an action was heard GBIs, nll Which the Rev, DMvid Evans, the Vicoar of St Mlark's, Lane South Shields, sought to tecover damnages for slander Stoi, from Henry Ililton, of Wastoe, near South Shields. It , p0)p1)11l reloea con nso) opellnig statetllett that up to Ot O the eold of 1878 the defendi tt woaR n member of the folio ! cogngregation of St Mark's, ...

... [Feom PUtNCH.] To PURCHASERS OF SLEDGES.- One snowstorm doec not make a winter. S ENCOURAGEMENT.- Jones (who lias just Added the list finishing touch to his piCtule)- Well? Smith- We ll, you've just gut it inlto a capital state to begin working upon ! 3 STEAY !-Citizen (who had been dining with his Comp tmy)- Heie, CaOma', le' me drive!-I'll uld'take to make him go ! Cabby-' No, ...

... SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT a I f I ~ WrEsTrcsxsve, Thursday night. I Thle IThe ceremony with which . the session of 1880 first eV was usheredl in to-day 'wes of thle miost teare and wore 1 insipid character, Nor did the gilded chamber berlche of the Peers, which lends itselif so greatly to spirits. ceremonial, much enliven the scene. It would that t indeed have been ucore dull had., not the sunl, ...

... A -GIRL SENTENCED TO DFMH. TOUCHING SCENE IN COURT. At the Cumberland Winter Assizes on Wedneslay. before Mr Justice May, Margaret Messenger, aged fourteen years, domestic servant, was charged with the wilful murder of a child amued Mary Elizabeth Pallister, six months of age, at Spiunston, near Car- lisle, il July last. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner was engaged in Juiie last ...

... TTHE AFGtIHAN SITUATION, T1 THE EVGACUATION OF CANDAUIVR f' ALTRJIN THE DIST;I:CT. asj CANDAHAC :tn. 30. The various rumours that have been flyI about by for the last thrce weeks regarding the evacuation have now been crystallised into the solid belief,both among tite troops and the townspeople, that Candabar will *en be abandoned in the spring. To what extent the :al belief is justified it is ...

... I IMPRI.AL PARLIAMIENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY.c ~~ The. Speaker took the chair in the Hueo on *ty Wae ECorn_ mono to-day at 12 30. ccessor ,SCOTCH PETITIONS. vgdtsire Petitioso! ewre 'prosentei by lar J. B. Balfour from l :subie- the Parochial Board of Tillicoultry Against the Poor eciejon, Law Offloers Susperannusation Bill; bay Mar Cochran lee die- Patrick- frotf the deacons' court of ...

... THE COMIC PAP'ERS.. lot [Faom1 INN. ICI A lBi:corio ltaeueOMN-lT-Elderly Party- ''It' se- re rlfii wiwy they is a-goin' on in Irelin-l, I hear, II:is til My husband stys, says Ito, they hainit gort ino nnpow foi er. no one; and he says, yin ernon, Miss, lie says it's the at, Britisli C'onstitnoshoen whitt must be tiphell. olit:.s I ' says, 'Brown, nevi r you mini about the British ('.ri- ...

... REGISTRAR-GENELRAL'S REPTURN. The weeklv return of births, leaths, end mali iages in thie eight Priucilpal towns of Scotland, by authority of tbe hlegistrar.Genotial, for week ending Siaturday, ,Feblruary 12, i is follows :-The death-rate in the eigbt priocil:lL towns ti uring the week ending with Saturday. ethe 12th Februaiy, 1881, wasi 243 per thonsand of c estiuliantd l1lplation. This rate ...

... h A meeting of Higlhlanders and Scotchmen in liondon cwas bield labt night at Stafford House, the residence of o the Duke of Sutherlaisd, to express entire dissiulproba- d tiost of alny change in the tartans as at present worn by the Digliland regimtents. The Mackintosh of .Mackintosh presitdcd, end therLe wis . very large attendutnce. 'the proceedings weor com. S omenced by a selection Upon ...

... - it - [BY SPECIAL WIRE FRO3I OUR OWN T' CORRESPONDENTS.] *worc t - this 47 FarEr STEE6'r, Friday night. luxt I hear that Transvaal atiairs have become ous - further complicated by a discovery made by |high 3Government that lhe annexation of the Boer case. I Repnblic lvas informal, that' legally the State give has not been anncxed at all; and that this fact is t -which nuost conie te the ...

... - n .! %er .S. A.;~ 1i , -L-..; 20GLESIAM C.L.- , IFawn PawanywSutny-o >NOABrlM2,;OQ'~f ...