On December 14th There Was A Sudden Outburst Of Volcanic

fires in Nicaragua, about ten miles from Leon, near the foot of an extinct volcano called Rota. The first eruption sounded like the booming of heavy artillery to the people of......

The Rev. J. J. Hornby, An Eton Man, A Tutor

of Brasenose College, Oxford, sometime head of a ball in, the University of Durham, and latterly second master at Winchester, has been elected to the Headmastership of Eton,......

The Victoria Cross Has Been Granted To Major W. S.

Trevor and Lieutenant J. Douglas, for a very gallant deed in Bhootan. The Bhooteas, 180 strong, had barricaded themselves in a block- louse, to enter which " we had to climb up......

A Dreadful Explosion Occurred On Saturday In The Powder Mill

at Faversham, by which 11 lives were lost. The cause is still un- Icnown, and the coroner's jury have expressly exempted the manager • of the powder mill from any blame for......

There Is A Konigsberg Cheesemonger Who Appears To Have...

the constitutional laws of Prussia, or rather the standing orders of its Parliament, with especial view to their applicability to the art of puffing. He has sent a petition to......

Friday. Dec. 27. Friday, Jan. 3 Great Eastern... 311 801 Great Northern ... 107 107 Great Western 441 44/ Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 122 1221 London and Brighton 50 411 London......

The Revenue Returns For The Last Quarter Look Rather Bad,

and really are not remarkably good, but they are not so bad as they seem. The deficiency on the corresponding quarter of last year is about 800,000/., but this is made up of a......

Mr. Cardwell And Mr. Neate Addressed Some Of Their Con-

stituents at Oxford on New Year's Day at a Druids' dinner, but they do not seem to have addressed anything particular to them. Mr. Cardwell commented, of course, on the Tory......

There Is A Mania For Mr. Dickens's Readings In The

United States-of such force and magnitude that the day breaks,—we hope not so cold a day as we have had recently in England, —on hundreds of persons waiting in file at the box......

Do Educated Englishmen Really Not Know Where Archangel Is ?

The British Consul at that place appeals to the public for aid for the starving peasantry, and the letter is headed in the Times, 4 ' Famine in Southern Russia." A correspondent......

Friday, Dec. 27. Friday, Jan. 3. Mexican 151 ... 151 Spanish New ... 35f ... 34 Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858 ... 591 ... 5J1 1862 611 ... 611 United States 5.20's 72 ... 721......

All National Stocks Have Continued Very Inactive...

In prices, however, very few changes have taken plaCe, the fall having been confined to 4 1 - per cent. Yesterday Consols, for money, closed at 92 exactly, and for the account,......

The Times Put Out A Curious Feeler Yesterday. It Published

a letter by " A Briton " stating that certain " unspoken words" have come to the lips of hundreds of Englishmen with relation to Ireland, which they have been deterred from......