... AFFAIRS IN TURKEY. It appears,says the Constantinople representative of the Daily News,to be definitely decided that the ser- vices of the gendarmerie officers who have not left Turkey will be dispensed with next January, notwith- standing the repeated pledges to Sir H. Layard and Mr. Goschen that they should be actively employed. Osman Pasha has given an intimation to this effect to Colonel ...

... A NEW ATLANTIC STEAMER. On Thursday the Alaska, the latest addition to the Guion Mail fleet, arrived in the Mersey from the Clyde, where she wm constructed by Messrs. Elder and Co. This vessel will probably fulfil a prediction made two or three years ago by the builders of the Arizona, a sister ship in some lesser degree to the Alaska, that Liverpool and New York could be reached in seven days ...

... LORD BEACONSFIELD Viewed Psychologic- ally, is the tempting title of a paper in the new number of Dr. Forbes Winslow's Journal of Mental Pathology. A good deal has been said and written already about Lord Beaconstield, but psychologically has an imposing sound, and suggests that the writer has something new and interesting to tell us about the evolution of the statesman's mind. We confess ...

... GALES AND LOSS OF LIFE. Since November 21st violent gales have been re- ported from different parts of the United Kingdom. A storm the severity of which has not been equalled since the Sunday when the Tay Bridge fell, swept over Scotland on the night of the 22nd and the follow- ing morning, causing great destruction of property, and alao unfortunately the loss of several lives. -At Millerston, ...

... MURDERS IN IRELAND. A young farmer named Peter Doherty, residing at Rahassane, near Athenry, was about to retire to bed, when his mother told him she heard the horse loose in the yard. He went out to fasten it up, when three shots were fired at him. Two missed him, but the third struck on the right temple and killed him instantly. His murderers then went to the house of his cousin, another ...

... RELIGIOUS CENSUS. The Wolverhampton Evening Star publishes figious census of that town, which shews a remarkab falling off in attendance at religious worship cotf pared with a census taken in 1851, when about M the sitting accommodation in the churchesa* chapels was occupied. According to the census till population of the borough was 75,738; and the** are 13 Established churches, with six ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I (CARDIFF.- L AaraGEn Fsur~kuaslQv ?? pur-I sual(e Of an order nerds bv the County Courta 'Judge, Alfred Pomphroy, formerly greengrocer, cariguabusiness in Jh-stroest,n as appre- boddin Canton by Inspector Price and Polioe- constable Oxley, charged on a warrart with being a bankrupt within ltse meaning of the Debtors' n Act, 18C9. and within four months next before being adjudged a bankrupt, ...