... [From Our oltwns £7'rCrspoacllt.j Nnvw Yoltic, January i4, 1881. Jr is about three yea1rs since Mr. Secretary Evarts sued from tho Departiueiit of State a circular letter to all diplomatic and consular oficers of the ?? States, in8structing them to investigato into iloe best inealis of increasing the commerco of the ?? States With the foreign countries to wiich t WeY -ere SeovrnIlly appoinlted ...

... g. '?t4 ? 4 ¶ ¶ ?? 1 e s, veste r vtoa , t-io X l .- o A I ?? r'>i~ni ,?o a cjuestion o eit'ot. Sid -, Liov-rnamcLt had a - ''onz eias to the C --s :.i . :.S int' tc -rusj Woud 01 ?? -re X ?? a.i arl rrccrln ;. - * . reaD (Cl the 1ivers o n*er ia- t anl lroo 1s Preveltion till b ?? t isourfoad-to i -:oolsO to fa4i'tate a ,pj cO; rc.eior the ztorage . -; w ...

... MULTUMI 1N PARVO. Eight public meetings are to be held in various c d districts in London on Wednesday evening, to pro- t y test against the Goverumnut policy of corerion in C Ireland. Each meeting is to be addressed by two t e. Irish members of Parliament. The iron viaduct across the Solway was seriously damaged on Sunday by drifting ice. Many pillars l have been carried away. Fortunately the ...

... 7 - v - . - - BIUTOL TEMPCRANCIU SOClEtY. p .&~NN'UAL MAEETflG. - The forty-fifth annual xaeotlng,of the, Briskg Teiper. ante Society was held at the Tempoianoe-balll Broad- street. 0At evenink, Ur. F, V. Jacqjues prestdonll ari there was amoderate atteudanc4. The proceci~'gA [urfifd., t the evening wct lvnd~yacor hd sang a 0 Dh DOf ai~tlcn The, Rev. 0. Wxrcrcwylbaig'~offeried prayer, - Mr. ...

... CATTLE DISEASES, I IMPORTATION, AND REGULATION. In the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr. Chaplin gave notice that on Tuesday, the 22nd of February, be would call attention to the following faots in connection with the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in England:- That up till October last the country had been for many months perfectly free from that disease. That during that month a ...

... THE SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT I ASSOCIATION. I~ ~ ~~ _ Vestertlay the seventeenth annual meeting Of this society was held in the offices. Four Coors. Tue chair wats occupied by dir. WILLTcAc ROCHU. The followirg members were present:- Riuhect C Lee, Henry A Dillon, Vin'J Cieper, Arch. baldl 'Iisiall, Hen'y S Macredy, Wini D'Aitn, Peter Lautrbert. Alth~i' ?? Bat ei,.. Samiuel Hetripitill, WVin ...

... BIRMrINGHAM LIBERAL ASSOCIATION. I . .. .. MARKET HALL WARD. Thle ainnual public meceting of Liberals of Market Hall Wirdl was held last eveninig, at the Grand Hotel, Colmore R~ow, to elect officersA and representatives oin the Liberal Association. Mr. S. Timmsins presided and there wasq a *large attenidasnee. Among these presesit were Cossiscillor Dl. Davis, Messrs. W. Hiolliday, F. ...

... 4'2OLIERY EXPLOSION S. The conflicting theories put forward to je Pr account for the disastrous explosion at 1 PenygraigColliery have had this beneficial an effect: they have stimulated inquiry and en experimental investigation . they have PC quickened the active inquiries of msen, to II whom the subiect is of absorbing interest. and si, incited inquisitiveness in others. One of E the most ...

... I G A W c'sport tidegram states that the stess alt] drf M'rI. s!itr-e!l Henrv brat been fired at on hirs k ry t-,, V. 1vil72Ke Citsime. but ecscaped wituhur. r cck there were 34 Britieli and foreign wrecks, *,i which twevity were Briti si, and ?? approximaim - aki- ui prlipepif lost wi £5200 003. inclndiw 03 Iritii;ii tS200,000. A ?? id mneeting wiais held yisterdl;s at ciloghatr ji lie King ...

... SINGULAR ACTION FOR LIBEL. Messrs S. J. Amos aud T. C. Amos, proprietors of the Rhyl Advertiser, have been indicted at the Flintshire assizes for publishing a defamatory libel upon Mr J. M. Stanley, engineer, of Rhyl. Mr Stanley, in a letter to the Rhyl Journal, took except'011 to the action of Mr John Roberts, M.P. for the Flintshire boroughs, in voting for the admission of Mr Bnidlaugh to ...

... RETURN OF A IlAD LEAGCER. The only candidate nominated on Monday for New Koss was Jolin Bdward Redmond of 40, Cha. lewood-street. Pek-rave-road, London, medi- cat student, lie « as proposed by ti-c Lev P. M. Purlun U.O., wecoudel by Mr Hutchinson, shopkeei'wr. Mr Ifedu.ond's politics is that of the txireme Home lt«le party. He is also a member of the Irish Natio-ial Land Lea^U. ...

... Mr LEAlY gave notice that to-morrow he would ask the Postmaster-General whether he is all are that a grave and continual inconvenience is caused in the South of Ireland by the practice of making up at au early hour in the afternoon the Irish post bags at Cardiff and other towns in South Waies, although those bags are only sent on by the night mail train from London whether he is a are that ...