... RUSSIATAND HER NEIGH- BOURS. A SENSATION ON THE CONTINENT. GREAT CHANGES IN THE MAP OF EUROPE. A great sensation was caused in European capitals yesterday by the publication of an article which appeared in the official military organ of Russia, the Invalide Eusse, cjncerning the military position of Russia and that of her neighbours anher Western frontier. We published a portion of the article ...

... The Crofter Difficulty. It ia artnoTMeed that Mr Alexander Morrison, of Stornoway, a leader in the Laud Law Reform move- ment in the island of Lewis, has been asked by the Government to proceed to British Columbia to report upon its suitability as a colony for the settlement of a portion of the crofter population of Lewis. The Central News has reason to believe that this is one of the outcomes ...

... During the visit of her Royal High- ness Princess Louise to the Recreative Evening Classes Exhibition, at Nottingham, on Tues day an interesting incident took place. Francis Downing Jones, a working young man of Rhyl, who is a member of Mrs Elderton's Gordon Memorial Night School, took the journey to Nottingham in order to present to the Princess a pair of bellows in mounted brass work, made ...

... M1U, JR .VAJTN (r.oM o R conaEsroaNDEXT.) PARhIS, Fp.r.nAY. r, Biaiue Pn'ld iMr. MAorteu. Vh'J h;.ve bseeinz each otber 1i g~od &e.Zl since tbe ~j~rlva ot she lltter iu Earope, arc ?? on to nes on Satturcey. Mtr. ?? e Las been jergoina Io~r~r ^tof niassage trwstiulit. He to udert.;ik, so Americans tell me, a jor cusupasgn :gaiust Mr. Cleveland. I a; short time ago n conversation With him. 1aR ...

... MLITARY SERVICE IN GERMANY. (TEMOUG31 RZUTrIWS AGEN(Y.) 5 ' ?? PrO. 16.: In to-day's sitting of the' aicbstag, the ar- rangement prolonging the commercia treaty between Germny and Austria-H1ungary was read athfird time, apd passed almrA without debate. Thea Iouse subsequently proceeded to the first reading of the Dill for the reorganisa- tion of the present systom of military service. General ...

... I I B~E&T'S T=FLA~e I THE SITUATION LN E0OPF. 5 ~ ?? . S. Pmwn, Dw. 16. Tme explanation of ?? . the military situation on the R-ssian frontier have produced a universally goow imipressio ...

... ?? ..II (~tiiSTONE is about to pay a winter-visit to Italy, and will iI iii idei for Venice the day after Christmas Day. psi il * r k ITF Mq.for the first time since his acceptance of the 1 l et rship ...

... 6-viebigarthau, i9riabnau, &r, Ig ei DAvIEs-JaNxiNs. Hydref 20fed, yn Bethlehem, capel y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, Castellnedd, gan y Parch. ,, M. Thomas, Resolven, yn mhresenoldeb y cofrestrydd, Mr. T. Davies, fJun.. Boot Manufacturer, Resolven, a af Miss. J. Jenkins, merch Mr. T. Jenkins, Penhydd, :h (gynt o Penrhys) Pontrhydyfen. Ld MKARWOLAETHIAU. JENDiss.-Ar yr 21ain o Hydref, yn 63. ...

... GENERAL FORTGN ' NEWS. *i+IIE (REE'S' TxnAyas.), w `THIE;G:E1R.MA CROPWN PRINCE. ! nc Ssx Rro, Friday.-Sir Morell' Mackenzie was in sO attendance on the Crown Prince uirtil eleven o'cloci this morning, when he accompanied His Imperial Highness and c the Crown Princess on a' walk- through the town. The w 'Prince looked very well and walked briskly, stopping now t and then to converse with ...

... Samuel on Volapuk, Well met I'good sooth and by my halidame, well met Good morrow, fair sir; i' faith, I greet ye right gladly. Such, sir, I believe, is the way a person would welcome a friend in the England of the olden time. In the England of the future two friendly Britishers on meeting will probably rub noses and remark, Ab bok sic dab eb nopp hi cockee 1 I won't vouch for the accu. ...

... EXPERIENCES OF A DETECTIVE. By James McGovan. No, 55.-FORCING A ROGUE TO DIS- GORGE, principal. And yet it is the bait that is every day used to snare fools, and with a success that is astonishing. Every paper we lift bristles with offers in glaring black figures which one would think no possessor of money could pass over with indifference. It is the old story of the world divided into two ...

... THE ARTISANS' TECHNICAL AND ART ASSOCIATION. IT is satisfactory to find that the scheme to establish in Cardiff an Artisans' Technical and Art Association has not been allowed to drop through. At,a general committee meeting held the other night, the basis of the association was more clasrly defined and discussed. The fee for membership was placed at a minimum subscription of la per annum, in ...