... ORAL ISTRUCTION OF THE DESAD | I I ~~DUMB. An examination of the children who are being taught upon the oral system at the Asylum for the e: Deaf and omb in the Old Kent-road was held last f evening before several members of the committee of a that institution. The system hitherto adopted in this GM country is the French, which is teaching by signs nd thefinger alphabet. Though this s tem has ...

... -4- Westminster Abbey-Lecture on Book of Job, by the Dean, 3.50. Concerts-Crystal Palace, 3; St. James's Hall, 3; Messiah, 8; Royal Academyof Music (New Com- positions by Musical Artists' Society), 8. Todmorden Liberal Club's soiree. Volunteer Prize Distributious-Cannon-street Hotel (15th Middlesex), 6; Guildhall (2nd Loudon), 6.45; Westminster Hall (London Scottish), 6: Grosvenor Hall, ...

... JI.E lPIIILO-TIJESPIAN.S AT OXFOtll). This amna teil inecictv ?? memulfrs of ?? Utti'csity, whteh Il ais ui etiigu tlii i feel f o22i s rae i ?? oCCicasiOniS by its perforiii;ltca'; 0 oiil an'I elsewhere, acl which iti the neafil~ ra ljirifl 'It see Ivs to teae bri'ige A. 1). , gave enter- ta imentiutS inl {lie Unill. lo ' 'll tile aftertiois altii titi of F^'ril day sil SatIurday ]a t w'eek ...

... THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AND MARSEILLES. (EXCHANGE TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S TELEGRAM.) PARIS, Wednesday.-The Empress Eugenie has generously made a present to the city of Marseilles of the Pharo Chateau and Park, her right to which was recently upheld by law. The property is said to be worth 3,ooo,ooof THE TONQUIN EXPEDITION. (REUTERS S TELEGRAM,) PARIS, Dec. 2o.-The Jozinzal des De'bals to-day publishes ...

... rfrid (#bejjijyq#d gewdo THE SULTAN'S ALARMS. The situation at Constantinople is, according to news which comes from, different quarters, considered to be critical. The Standard's corresp. Aent says:- Although the excitement at Yildiz attendant upon the discovery of the so-called con- spiracy to dethrone Abdul Hamid has somewhat subsided since the disbandment of the Circassian body-guard and ...

... SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17. SATURDAY'S EDITION. I1NIST:E AL CHANGES. Mr. Gladstone has resigned the Chancellor. ship of the Exchequer, a post which will be taken by Mr. Obilders, who will be succeeded it the War-office by Lord Hartington. The Aear vacancy being at last reached, we are told that Lord Derby is to be Secretary for India. -We are not aware of any reason why Lord Derby should be selected ...

... SPANISH POLITICS.-A CHANGE OF FRONT. The Times publishes the following telegram from its correspondent at Madrid MADRID, Dec. 14.-To-day's session of the Congress has been one of much excitement, and fruitful of surprises. Linares Rivas, one of the leading dissentients of the Constitutional party, and a supporter of Marshal Serrano, in the course of a long speech in favour of the policy of the ...

... CITY. Early on Friday morning last a fire broke out in the City, and it is believed that the damage done is greater than has been caused by any single conflagration since the great Tooley-street fire twenty years ago. The scene of the conflagration is within a few hundards yards of that which took place on Messrs. Foster's premises in Cheapside, causing extensive destruction of valuable ...

... THE TONQUIN EXPEDITION. -4- to (BY SUBMARBDME TELEGRAPH.) G (MnoM OUR OVW CORRESPODMa.) fit PAWUS, SEDnaLr XIGE=. 0 hec. partisans of a Frenech expedition to Ton- I> quin are jubilant on the news, not officially contirmed, that a Chinese army of 10,000 men, which wads marching against the French corn- snandant Bividre, waS surprised it a defile by is some mountsineers, its earguard cut to ...

... THE DEBATE ON THE BUDGET, (BY SUBW&ERE TELEGRAPH.) (viox OR OWN 0R3 5PONDENT.4 PARIS, TarsMsAu NaIme. In the Chamber to-day M. Germain, a deputy with some financial reputation, continued the debate on the Extraordinary Budget, and, not having the responsibility of office, offered some brilliant theoretical suggestions. He thought the present situation essentially more prosperous than in ...

... GENERALS TIHEIR OW[AN 3UDGES. TI-IE article of Sir EDWARD HAMLEY published in the Niaeteellth Century has raised a discussion in the service clubs, in mess-rooms in the offices, and elsewhere, the tone and temper of which are deplorable. It is simply impossible for one divisional general fairly to judge the doings of the others. Yet this is what Sir EDWARD HAMLEY has taken upon himself to do. ...

... arflid obeninald joeb3d. FRANCE AND THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION, The Temjps publishes a telegram from London announcing that the English Cabinet has received the official reply from the French Government rejecting the English propositions in regard to Egypt. The despatch says The friendly observations lately exchanged between the London and Paris Cabinets had made the latter hope that the British ...