... BALL OF THE ELECT AT : PONTYPRIDD.:- 1. list BY BEAU NASH'S' GHOST.] eta I have noticed, says the ?? of the ag! celebrated Mr. B. Nash, the late kng of a Bath, that Morien' has - been lately co acribbling about ghosts, amd I have ventured to suppose a few lines from ghostland mnight I aot be unacceptable to your many readers. sho & was once an M.C., and by the force of long the Labit, ...

... - y I d got, d we d We cannot publish any letter unless the writer Put Sesnds hisas NlA. osatiand Aooaaers, not necessarily for ron; j dcuens it tei lttrs W dclneto be re. this sponsible fothmina any way. din ..W d o racwt Qerrvi'epeidenfe throagin the brol 'Servltue,-(i)The present brocce colnege cameth lislto cisoulation DCcenbee-, 1860; (2) Palnm Sutideiy in VAt 1M2 tOlLS oi5 Misre 29. ...

... CVMINES- ¢ f W k -. , rb- NT OfX. S.t^,a Lq uk The Reav. N. Macdonald, rocvi - . - D comductd Bpec.1 services it, tb~e clhttre , bt day. The building was decta'ted with oadly evergreens, &c. I ?? Els WOOD. The annual Christmars treat to tnc se'ebt ?? Stoe'YWCo)d Church ScCLIY V was given in the church last nsght. t 3Lsee fl the scholars, who uumbercl 300, therc S large number of friends ...

... THE DEER DISTRICT CHAIBMAiVSH7P. Tin Deer District Committee of the Aber- deen County Council at the meeting at ?? on Saturday had a very important and re- sponsible duty to perform in the election of a chairman in room of Mr Ferguson of Kin- mundy, who at the recent election did not -again ask the suffrages of the electorate in the division of Old Deer parish with which he and his family have ...

... A CURIOUJ' SkAhJ!2 OF EVEONTS.I A cURIOUS series of events of diverse character, but all relating to Ireland and the Irish question, is reported to-day. These are the renewed ?? riots at Sligo, with sensational developments, speeches at Cork and Limerick by Mr Red- mond and Mr John H. Parnell, MP., and the death of two foreigners who at different times were promiinently identiied with phases ...

... | GIM.SBY AND-ABEDEN. I THE RIVAL FISHING PORTS. GROWTH OF THE INDUSTRY ATi ABERDEEN. THh: NEED FOP EXTENDED ACCOM NMODATION. The report in yesberday's Aberdeen Journal of the resolution of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Compary to extend and imnrove the fish dock and fish market at GerImsby, at a cost of £20D,000, has naturally excited a considerable amount of interest ...

... THE ELLON FREE CHURCH DISPUTE. Sis,-In your issue of yesterday a private correspondenve was published between myself and Mr George Riddocb, recently clerk of mry deacons' court, along with other documents re- lating rhereto. I wish just to say that I have nothing whatsoever to do with this, and that those documents were sent to the papers entirely without my knowledge or approval. Those who ...

... rL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, 1 REV, MRFRASEE AND THE EPICOPFAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND. Sr,-I have read with. much astonishment the lecttre of Rev, J. Frazer, Bauchory,:as re- ported in to-day' Jourml. If thes opinicns are not, at once repudiated by authority, and Mr Fraser censlared, a material dimination in the 'subscriptions of laymen to the Clergy Fuand of the Episcopal Church CoancI may be ...

... THEI^ THE ITALIAN DISASTER IN ABYSSINIAO - DETAILS OF THE FIGHTING.. THE DESPATOH OF REINFORCE- MENTS. PROMPT PREPARATIONS. (RzTrmts TELicGRAM.) Ronx, Tuesday. An official telegram regarding the 1talian reverse in Eastern Africa, says that the fight at Amba Alagi, continued with intensity for six hours. The Italianr wings offered a desperate resistance, but beingz overwhelmed by vastly ...

... THE LAST S'iANiD OF MAJOR WILSON. I~~ ?? ._ A NEW 1ICTUlOTU1 TY A SCOITISH AR£IS1 Mr Allan Steewart, whose historical and military pictures have been favourably received at recent exhibitions of the rmoyd Scottish Academy, had recently the high honour, for so young an artist, to receive a commission from the F lue Art Saciety of London to paint a pinture for rnproduction in black and white in ...

... CITY AND DISTRICT GOSS'PI thz osit~hlsweoatse igt id, er idr^n . They Fay that the new Uruden railway will be epened' on June Ist. It will be next spring before the Salvation Army premises in Castle Street are finished. By that time, too, General Booth will have returned fromn his foreign tour. The record of Sergeant John Bafllie reeeiving a long-service medal as r, Fraaerburgh volunteer, ...

... LOMI~GN AN) COLONIAL MAILS. DIEPATO1 OF MAILS. ?? DESNArleONS. '-ROL LoNDiON. MAIL. DUNft Ascension ?? via .'ontliamptoll ?? Dec 28 X Dec 1I Ausirnlia, viz,: Victoria, New Soulith Wales, Queensland, S. and W. Australia, ?? TamN ani'a, via ItalyDec 6 B Dec 10 Alstresia (Parcel ,ai ?? Dec 11 Nov- Qneensla'vd (Parcel 3Mail) ?? Dec - NE Nov - Blallamaa ?? Nov -11 Nov - ielizc ?? Dcc 20 B Nov ...