... U^IENNA, Wednesday Afternoon.—Details of »5e terrible tornado which swept through v °Hhern Italy yesterday are reaching this city ..6ry slowly. From Vienna direct communica- 0l> with the devastated towns has not yet been j .Established, and news is arriving by the most *ndab°ut roads. The tornado did not leave a j building at Voghera undamaged, and a ge number of houses were levelled with the ...

... Amanda D. Toomer, of Augusta, a' 1S, reJiute ...

... THE OPEN COUNCIL. The above is the Lion of St. Mark, Venice. Opposite the Doge's Chamber In the Palace was a head of this Lion, with mouth open, into which persons secretly threw whatever was to meet the eye of the Doge. We placo it at the head of this column to indicate that public letters are received by us, and also letters requiring answers on legal and general topics. ADMINISTRATION ...

... Nadolig l1on! mae'th nefol drem Yn llawn gogoniant Duw, Da.w Genedigaeth Bethlehem I mi yn adgof byw. Fendigol ddydd rhyw dori gwawr Yn banes enaid dyn Wyt ti, yn llawn goleuni mawr— Goleuni Gras ei hun. Myneg-fys wyt, O! ddydd-gwyl pur, I lwybrau'r cariad rhad, Pan o awyrgylch sanctaidd, glir, Daeth rbodd ddeheulaw'r Tad, Hoeanna moliant, megys ton, Ddyfera dros bob niin, A theyrn lioll ...

... MORRISTON. SUCCESSFUL EISTEDDFOD AT THE TABERNACLE. —A very successful eisteddfod was held at the labernacle on Christinas Day. President, the Alayor of Swansea (Alderman Pike). The adjudi- cators were—for u usic, Mr John Thomas, Llan- wrtyd, and Mr Mddwyn Humphreys, London in the literary department, Rev. G. Griffiths, 1 enan Pentre Estyll, Swansea. The con- ductor was the Rev. Emlyn Jones, ...

... POOR France Her grave troubles never end, and the stilling of one seething fer- ment only makes way for another. How the nation has been harried by those who professed to be, and should have been, her best friends Her Royal House and a profligate Court and nobility drained her resources and enslaved her people the Paris mob. in the name of Liberty, spilled some of the best blood of France and ...

... The Prince of WAles'sj.ew jacht is to be ...

... Moscow, Sunday.—J.. horriblf discovery point- ing to the perpetration of on-j of the crimes of murder and mutilation popularly known as of the Of Jack the Ripper class was tnado is this city yesterday. A sack, without any apparent ownur, was found leaning against the wall near tha entrance cf a church in Piatnitskaia-straufc. No one claiming the pro- perty, it was taken possession of by the ...

... THE CHURCHES, Mr Albert Whittingham, of Brecon Memorial College, has received a unanimous invitation to the pastorate of Dovaston and Wilcofct Chinches, Salop. Mr Noah Be van, TonypanJy, late student cf.i Bangor Congregational College, has been invited to the pastorate of the English Congregational Church at Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. The Rev Pedr Williams, who has been invited to succeed ...

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... Madiud, Monday.—Yesterday serious rioting in the bull ring and subsequently in the S»K! at Zaragoza. The manager of the bull \»ii was taking place refused to replace a which seemed disinclined to tight by another /tin?a'v and the spectators became enraged to rfT? a Pitch that they tore up the seats and doors .1 he building and burned them. The crowd attempted to burn the building, and pence ...

... An American Tornado. FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE. Towns and Villages in Ruins. NEW York, Tuesday.—Details have just been received here of a terrible hurricane, which has done immense destruction, in the States or Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Vir- ginia. Whole districts have been well nigh de- vastated, and forty persons are reported to have been kilted. In Savannah numbers cf buildings have ...