... Tbe Indian Iciw TAd send-off, as an AmedIs would call it, to Sir WMWXLLW W3DD=B UN yester&y wnaI every way, an interesi1g a, event It took place at thfe Xati='alrS Clab in the form of a ?? given by Mr YsLs, who presided last year over the la Congress, to ,ir WTn.LT WEDDnu&EfRy wbo is going out to Bombay to preside over the nezt meeting. Although the Isanobeon was given 4l the National ...

... I GRES BRITAIN & PORTUGAL. INTERVIEW WITH TUE PORTU- GUESE FORiEIGN MINISTER. THE INCIDENT OF THE FLAGS.- (FSOM Om' SPROUL CORRUSPONDWT.) 4 USBON, MONDcr Nsowr. I have ?? enough to be able in a conversation on what is the topic of the day here-the radations between England and Por- tngal in Afica-to obtain from Senhor Bsurros Gomes, thjn Minister for Foreign Affairs, an authorit&ive account of ...

... METEOROOGICAL BePORT. - by PAZ: SWb OOFFlrXC RMADINGS TM$ ORMG EU NEGBM'TI AND ZAMBRA'S BAROCKTEP. & S J. 7. l SUq. MON. . U10, l Sl SW. S.W. 31 sil- 31 - 31_ L i tL . A- ?? so 30 _ 0_3 1! I~~~F -. C,-rrefecL to ar1eet ard ~rduced to 32 . F. £F tebleekluSS ahow the heisht of the barometer at I o'lock on thisand heereelo5 mrnigs. he tte line.jdlete the _ ~ ~o _ S The TElel P1E5Tt E inth h apex ...

... A Calumny I Refuted. Is there any one who at this r momeunt is sufferiug from the sup- posed ill-effects of plum-pudding P We fear there may be; but let him learn to be just, and acknowledge that, after all, it was not thepudding's fault. Mr. MATTIEU WILLIES has been lecturing to a Christmas Holiday audience at the Birmingham and Midland In-! stitute, on the Chemistry and Natural History of ...

... ''HE E.X-E.MP.EROR OF BRA7.IL; ARRIAL AT ST. VIGCENT.: (1301 0a coRsPwoNDEITi.) MAnRRE, Suwa ~S ew Telegrams fronm Portugal say that the ap- proaching arrival of the Emperor of Brazil escites great interest in. all classes of society,! anld evenl Republicans speiak ill friendly terS of Domn Pedro, The Government aiad the Royal Family intend to give him a very warm wel- come with a~ll Imperial ...

... Ssin?. WI? never linow how primit?ve?we are. If there Feaciv3lizedconntry ir? the world it ja Franeo,.and yet, |if wec may Judge by a recent essay on popular IFrench saints and French religious practices, many peasants are still in anu almost paganU co1- dition. Just as the Ronians of old bad a god or a goddess of everything in life, down to-the mildewv in wh~eat, so the Fzrench rusties have ...

... HOUSEBR.EAKERS IN D)ALSTON. At Dalston Police-court ycsterday, before Mr. Slade, James Cameron, James Cox, and Eliza Sher- lock were chaiged wn.th boeig concerneodinb roaking aud eteriug thu dwelling house of Mr. Edward Salaula, of 140, Queen's-road, Dalstou, and stealing therefrom paroperty to the value of 501.-Mr. Domain, solicitor, defeuded Camerou.-Caurceou and Sherlock have previously ...

... NTATIURIE, I'D SCZ A.N CE. | 711e PXP2d,1tcfion Of 1-v.07y'. There are annually hllcid in Africa, a ?? Is irbla of 65,009 elcphant a. yiwdinig i p.-tilitition oi a, and (fUalitity of lait ivory. thue sexlling ;ri~ce oT which rv (read ii sinile zOO,85000. lTit1 quiltuitiv ia )~'iwnA?i to t iet ho Various parts of the wtorld-, to tile Aainuritcanil, the t wi o f n~aopedn, 101.1 the Azianll ...

... THE 1st 1f3talijon South Wales Borclerer ss arrived at Alderahot on Wednesdlay from Ireland. OwiI;N to the continued Dravajenco of typhoid fever in Dublin the despatch of trained recruits :h from the regimental depots to the battalions :r quartered in the city has agaiu bee i counter. inauded by the War Office. le ROYAL MIARINES.-The following proillotiono have talken place in, the Royal ...

... 1 - WINTER. After a remarkable spell of genial Mildness the Pdi autumn suddenly closed with a, snap-a cold snap. TI Winter set in last week with all its rigours, and pr sharp frosts have been the noder of the day and night. It is a fair indication of the season that g Whereas in London last year there was a sharp ski frost on Oct. 3, and in 1887 on Oct. 18, the first on noticeable frost this ...

... I OXFORD:.CITY COUNCIL An ordinary monthly meeting Of the City Council wae heol on Wednlesday morning, in the Council Chambor, the Mlayor (Aid. Hughes) presidiug; there were also present the Deputy-Mayor (Aid. Gray), Aldermien Carr, Seary, E3aglestooe uckell, Woodward, Wilson, the Provost of Queen's, the Warden of Merton, Deazeley, H. S. Under- hill, Goold, and Green; and Coulcillors Turner, ...

... -I ?? the b'fesdordj -oThe kindly custom of remtinding our friends, by the zodeepotche of a Christmias card, that, though they, are out of ai sight, they are nes out of mmnd at the festdlseasonl of thle I- rear, i~s one agatnet which we have no desire to say a word er z of dej'rednknoz. No noaht, those who hiave ainsost no it spare time to dispesae of, and yet have ince good fortiune to to be ...