... LATEST WS T E COUR, &C. . O So 1tsAy. e The Qdit wett out this mornug attended by the DowI e isdy Cur Cous't arcssvsr. NEW YEAR HONOUI . r The Querin bas Wen plesed tb approo of the Iom etmt of Sit' John (brt tw'be a embr of her Majt-Mos Bonorble P v CounciL The Que~en hat conlurrd baronetcies of the ?? :Kingdomn upon Mr. J. T. Davies Mackenzie, of G~lennoiclr; nd Mr. Willa mf Scoell Sufry, ...

... ASTRON-OiCtl, INOTES FOR I .jANLARMY. ! Tbe S ea i'e,.r cor.~n in wista moonlight nights, Thise New f 1fl0' ti*Q the iitbrng of the oth - i ns ietd all advantage in any way v astronomerust for th1e t huies of full moon are not j I for their wvfwrk: bitt the vast majority ofi ew eD, loonli-ht l~ri:-ghts when they are full I tOP g, ?? tbe b Sinning of a new year. a resoii tionu~ t thie being ...

... 1THEB Ia. - e, ACL-- 18Sot -: ?? *BQN rqf OBDR8X . - .Tohn Roberts Stantyj Ulxddlesbwongb, builder. Frederick Omr3n BeecXi~ds l5-xOW A sh'v ick, Scenirset. 1ljire, bege , iatier, and tihrvdealer. ChaidAWWI Crs ook, 8toweli, zsueersetsblre, 15ctnged victualler. Vipiara Ntemith Tasky, near aridgnor h, .Salop, ro. odin~ S~xytreet3&idgortN, favrmer. WI III M ?? ngoconortlr, Edwin llBeavtn, St. ...

... BIRTHS & DEATHS IN TWENTY- EIGHT ENGLISH TOWNS. 52a-D WEEK, 1889. In the week ending Saturday, 28th December, 4248 births and 4007 deaths were registered in 28 of the largest English towns, estimated by the1 Hegistrar-Geierml to contain a population of. M555,406 persons in the middle. of this year. The births were 376 below, while the deaths ex- ceeded by 548, the average weekly numbers during ...

... 1 STRANGE DILEMMA. At the fortnightly meeting of the Itoncoen Board of Guardians, held at Dutton Woikhouse yesterday, Colonel Ashton in the chair, the as- -istant seoretary to the Local Government Board iv wrow with ref erenuo to the re-appeintment of or. Thomas Stubbing as schoolmaster of the workboise, and stated that, havint rogard to the circurnstancoi inder which Mr. Stubbing resigned his ...

... LEGISLATION FORP THE YEAR . 1889.. (52 A'N g Vial.) Though the public statutes for the year 1889 amount to 76, with the exception of -Mr. Goschen's scheme for the extinction of the National Debt, the Succession Dnties, and the Scotch Local Govertnent Bill, there is nothing in them of paramount importance. A large section of these statutes consist of trifling rectification of existing laws. A ...

... Of all the interesting gatherings which from g time to time have occurred in St. George's BalI a perhaps none are more interesting than that a which took place yesterday. The affair will be i remembered. with pleasure by many an ancient Liverpool dame during the rest of the year, as also will the kind and -genial manner of the bost, Mr. Thomas Hughes 3,va.or of Liverpool, 1Vlj JO to his 1000 ...

... UmVEnSn COLLEGE OF NORTH WALTES, BANGOn. - GanyBExjzT APPOtUnMrrS. -The Lord President of the Council (Viscount Cran- brook) has appointed Sir Owen Roberts, Sir Hugh Gwen, K.C.B. and Dr. Isanmbard Owen to be governors of tbe University College of North Wales for five years from the 31st Docember, 1889. Hislordship has also been pleased to reappoint Mr. J. Lloyd Griffith,. Mr. P. P. Pennaut, ...

... NEW TEA''S EVE. The sharp Efost, 'with an agreeable crispand bracing air, whvich- has prevailed in Liverpool during the closing days of the Old Year dis- appeared yesterday, and the eve of the New Year was marked by a heavy and continuous downpour of rain, Slight showeni fell in the afternoon, but at about seven o'clock a perfect deluge of rain came on-- It eatggested a sort of gralmnltical ?? ...

... LIFEBOAT SER._-ICES IN 1889. Tbeo l:-yoats of the 11oyal \National Lifeboat. tc-.: urion baxe done excellent worlk during the d as-vear. resulting in the rescue from the peril of d drowniitr-and in the majority of e in-taaices from dtaih itself-of as many as 408 3 errs. 'The details of the services are as -s.La licthesine, of Snuderlalid. 1S P itres sated: bri6 Stancecath von Brook, of Ros- e ...

... At Bangor Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Pierc ard Dr. Richards, Thomas Owen, joiner, Mndai Bridge, appeared to answer three sum- monses for drunkenness, assaultingi Robert Jeffer- soni, Is toil collector at the Menni Suspension Bridge. and for inteiruptiug the same in the.l discharge of his duty. Mr. Thornton Joncs. who prosecuted, pressed lor the inflction of a substantial penalty, the ...

... SALUS POPl'LI tEX So1'7ELA. ] 0- Lord Salisbury is reported to be suffering fror, a verv sevcre cold, and was, yesterday, *norred to his room at Hatfield. The quarterly returns issued by- the lreasurv last night show that the gross produce of the revenue of the concluding quarter of last vear was £21,577,798, which -W4s an incrense on the return for the corre- SpU;fi(W(g 11p'riud ol 1888 of ...