... THE UARDEN.-By WA. BARLET. SEASONABLE GARtDENINGFOR THEBWEE i ENDING JAN. 7. Bouvardias are admirable wlnter-bloominl plants, suitable for all warm greenhouses. &a.' they are easily kept throughout the winter, evet in colder greenhouses, from which frosts areaes eluded, though they cannot be expected fe bloom at this season of the year in the latter Mostly of Mexican origin, they require a ...

... -r MR. GLADSTONE ABROAD. LORD R. CHURCHILL IN RUSSIA. IMPRISONMENT OF AN ENG- LISHMAN IN MADAGASCOA Tamatave, Dec. 14. General Willoughby, recently cbmmanding the native army, has been imprisoned by the Hova Prime Minister on a charge connected with his recent mission to Europe. The British consul remonstrated against the step, hut lie was met by claims on the part of the Premier that the Hova ...

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... TOWN AND QOUNTRY TALK. This week Mr. Spurgeon publishes his 2,000th consecutive weekly sermon. T she honorary freedom and livery of the Fishmongers' company will be conferred on Mr. Gosehen on Feb. 7. Sir Robert Montgomery, ?? ?? LL.D., menmber of the Council of the. India office, died on Wednesday, aged 78. The Newport, Caerphilly, and Pontypridd railway was opened for passenger traffic on ...

... The Grand Old Man's Dover deliverance ,ij jl) read by thousands-nay, millions-of ?? at this season of peace and goodwill nuth genuine satisfaction. Now is the timefor 0vergreenS, anmxr. W~ladstone is, intellectually, u evergreen of the rnost marvellous descrip- tica. Statesmen there have been at rare in- trval who '3have not put off their harness even at r. Gladatone'z age; but it would be ...

... c-yj~ EGO AP2SA~A n 0 oOX A Inconnectionvwiththe Ssmith-Itilraln prize-fight on MAIonday week a very inysteri us disappearance is ye- ported. Mr. Archibali 11`Neil, of the Spoft.,iexn, after witnessing the coltcst proceeded to Pariiis. On the following day (Tuiesday) he keit Par's for BoIulogue and Folkestoue. and (luily arrived at the first-mentionled towin, and placed his hlggage on1 board ...

... SUMMARY OF LATEST ROAQ NEWS. Yesterday, Henry Harding, aged thirty-two, of S Martin'e6ians, fell off a wall and badly injured head. He wa.s taken to West.rminster Hospit1l Li Yesterday, James Rnyrer, sqed thirty - seven, c George-strcet, Vauxhall. fell down some steps and brot his knee-cap. Hie was attended to at the Westmirzs Hostpital.te Yesterday, Mary Stiely, aged tbirty-sixyear0 l'irl, at ...

... SE111OUS COLILIERY ?? - Early on Sunday morning a serious fire broke out at the flenalby Alain Coliely, Lear Dotocastel, w here 1.500 men are employed. The alarm was given at one o'clock by William Gouglh, the night engineman, who was standing at the door of the engine-house listening to a party of carol singers. Sudtidenly lie detected aL smell &f burning, and, looking towards the big engine. ...

... PATAL ICE ACOnDED7S. On Tuesday morning .a nusmber of boys ventured on an ice-covered pond near Icdonkton-road, Jarrow, when the ice gave way, and two of them fell into the water and were drowned. Their nalues were John Merrils, ten years of age, son of Sergeant Merrils, of the J arrow police, aid Jaicces Gordon, about the same age. A collmpanion of tie two bors plunged into the pond to rescue ...

... TI-m. Walter Pollard, esecribed as a clutter, of 1, Copper- rill-il-nlo, WltiblmalAmtow, wits suimilmoned yesterday at StaUtiord by busanl 1-chardsou, a single ivoman, of ]xu's~t`et, Walttarestow, to show cause wety be sh'tald not be called upon to contribute towards the support ot her illegitimatto male child, of which she I ?? lain to be ttue ftdher. t ;r. I. J. Brown, barrister; instructed ...

... SPECIAK NOTES. TgE year Eighteen Hundred and Eiglhty-eight, which Is iahered in to-day, has a trouble3ome and terrible ., 'a from its prdecessor. 'The old problem of exist- ence sceemis more complicated thati ever ; and the duties 1 Goverameflt, and peoples in the presence of poverty 5ad its costant attentdants, creme and death, are per- piecing and distressing in their unnatural antagonism ...

... (JAPTU= OX MURMAR3S. On Tuesd iy Thoneas TIawes, 37, who saih he had no occupathon of Dorinda street, Ieverpool-road, Isling. ton. and Jaumes l awes, his brother, a labourer, of the same address, and John Jones, 39, bricklILTCr, of ICharles-stroet, 2Kentish-town, were brought uP in cU5- jtody at Riglhiate Police-court charged with loitering 'at Nowv Southga.to for tloe supposed purpose of coin ...