... THE SLA YE TRADE OF THE PACIFIC. TIIE decision of the Government to appoint a Commission to inquire into the Polynesian labour traffic is eminently wise and just. If it be true that the Commission will include both Sir A. GORDON and Admiral WILSON, we may rest assured that its inquiries will be searching, for the inquirers will bring to the investigation a thorough acquaintance with *the ...

... EMNOXY AT THE WRONG END. ,Xo, T1EF BDIOR OF 3EYOLDS'S NEWSPAP&pR. ssu,-Taking. a review this Christmas-time of the realm at large, one is constrained to say 4 that this is really a wonderful nation. The 3 more a man knows about it, the longer he E resides within its sea-girt walls, and the more ( deeply he acquaints himself with the motives of I its rulers, the more loat must he be in amazed i ...

... 'TO TEE EDITOR OF RBEYEOLDS'8 NEWSPAPER. Sir.,-Notwitbstanding all our extravagant jubilation at the success of our arms in Egypt, im our having vanquished an army that took to its heels almost at the first approach of its enemy, there is so much difficulty sarrounding this conquest as to render it certain very dis. agreeable complications are arising therefrom. N9ot only in Europe, but ...

... I TEnnIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER IN - SCOTLAND. The moat appalling accident that has happened on the Great North of Scotland Railway since it was opened occurred on Monday~eveningon the MacDnff and Tnrriff branch of that line. The accident occurred at a point on the line two miles from Auchterless Station and about the same distance from Fyvie. The custom of this line is to run mixed trains of ...

... ARMY STA1ZO3TN AND DEPOTS oea 3G3B/xBL lit Life Guards, Hyde-park. let'bat. It. Hzghrs. (42nd), Sod ditto, Windsor. Itgvpt ;.Perth. ItoyallirseGrds, Regont's-uirk lath bt. Oaf. Li. (43rd), Ban.- let DgGds, Meal-nt; Uantsrbry g raor andllrrms~h; Oxfrd: 2nd, Manchester, 1st -ht, Esse It. (44th), Fort 3rd, Edinburgh- St. George and Burnah; 4th, lBriahtun; York. Warley. .5th, yert et hat. Derby It ...

... THE PU13L10 HEALTH. THEZ PUBLIO HOALTH. I From the lt.ecistrar-zeneral'S return We learn that ?? the week ending Decetn. her 9 the anith'al rate of mortslity in 28 great tovn5j of Etglnd mud Wales averaged' . 23 4 pet 1,000 of their ?? popula- tion, whioh was egtiinated at 8,469.571 per- sons in the middle 6f this year. The rates of mortality 5D the ?? towns, ranged in order from the lowest, ...

... y IN a private letter a lady gives the following description of the collision whicls took place in October last between the P. and 0. steamer Peshaeur and the ship Geknroy, a few days after the fonner vessel left Colomabo in October last. We spent two days at Colombo, and left there on Saturday about 4.30. It was very fresh and rough at sea, so we all felt rather queer. Sunday was rough too, ...

... ON Wednesday afternoon, December 6, the planet Venus transited over the sun's disc. The sky was overcast at Greenwich Obser- vatory and in Paris, but in South-Western England, in South Wales, at Fort William, and in South Africa the Transit was successfully observed. These phenomena are of rare occurrence, the number of years between consecutive Transits being 8, los, 8, 122 years. These ...

... TOPICS OF THE AWEEK. THE condition of M1. Ci.easaEYFTA' has beess the topic of thle week in Paris, for, altloigli tflat statesmall has not been for some time so pronjisllently before tbe public as he was a year or two back, it is a question whether his influence ?? thle fortunes of the Ilprublic aild as a leader of public opiniosi is not as great as ever. 'lse state of his hseislei las been ...

... OEMAND. LEGAL APPOflTIMN. (s3r TELEORAPH e u3om OnB own CORonDNTIS.) a DlJBLIN. TanaSSDx M;enEs. C It is announced that Mr. Naish, Q.C., Law t Adviser has been appointed Solieitor-General in room c of Mr. iorter, M.P., who becomes Attorney-General consequent on the elevation of M1r. Johnson, Attorney E General, to the Bench. Several names are mentonedI for the office of Law Adviser, the more ...

... EGYPL . DEGRADATION OF THE EXILES. (BY EASTERN T GRAPH) (FROM OUR SPECIL COnRESPONDMz)sT. CAIRO, MXoDAY NorGR. The prisoners had a great fright this after- noon in consequence of an order to dress quickly and proceed under guard to a place unknown. Toulba trembled; Arabi looked more obsti- nate and calm than ever. They were taken to the Kasr-al-Nil, where the sentence of degradation was read ...

... FRM,1CE AND MADAGASCA. (BY SUBMA h TEERAPH.) B0toUR OWE? OORBXSPONDENT)J : PARIS, TmmsxrA Nmerr. 1 The Tgi~graphe, which is said to be the direct organ of the fluaclero Ministry, contains the fol- lowing article, which I translate textually be-1 cause , albeit perhaps imrp or tanlt. I cannot mys elf understanl it :- While carefully avoiding to r the express any opinion on the part played by ...