... AccoRDING .to the France, says a Paris corre- gpondent grave events have taken place at Madrid. The government has declared open war against the Congress, and struck the first blow. The Queen, it would app;ear, having determined to dissolve the Legislature, the President of the Senate, Senor Rios y Rosas, and the bureau ?? the vice presidents and secretaries-drew up an address to her Majesty ...

... ROUGH WEATHER IN THE MEDITER. RIANEAN. Ws .read in the Malta Tnes,'of the 20th ult. During the last few days we haveihad violent gales from the northward and westwards which on Monday night shifted to the northward and eastward, and on Tuesday occasioned a very heavy sea to set into the harbour. A fisherman,: on Monday evening, was washed off the quay of the Marina and downed. His cap and ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE FRANCE At the reception held on Tuesday at the Tulleri stke Emperor addressed the following speech to the i)iplo matic Body. The opening of the new year furnished me an opportunity of expressing my wishes for the stability of thrones and the prosperity of naious. I hope that we are entering upon a new year of peace and conciliation and that the uuive sal exhibitioa will ...

... _hI ?? r. . .s _ In its review of the past year the Record ?? Ritualistic conspiracy to crush the eminent leading Counsel in the Teignmouth prosecution recoiled on the heads of its unmanly promoters. But the attempt serves to show what is the measure of their moral sen. sibilities. The Barletta outrages in the Neapolitan district of Italy, constituted an un rovoked attack upon Protestantism ...

... ?? lott4atiutt AND EAST PIDING; TIMES. REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE FOR TRANsmissION ABROAD. FRIDAY, JANUARY 4- THE meeting of the Hull Town Council began yesterday at about 2.20. After dis- charging a little minor business the meeting proceeded to discuss a supposed irregularity of Mr. DALE, with respect to his having, on his own authority, made various repairs in. the waterworks' ...

... IWATERFORD ELECTION. - DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS. The Parliamentary election for Waterford was decided on Monday in favour of the Liberal candidate, Mr. De La Poer; who received 1,481 votes; Captain Talbot, the Conservative candidate, receiving 984. The election appears to have been. carried in a most dis- graceful manner. Numerous cases of brutal assaults upon voters occurred. For the ...

... - . k .t : . . Tim Standard correspondent at Buenos Ayres writes :-Distaut as. is the seat of war from this eCapital, several. incidents have lately cccurred to bring the horrors of it' before the eyes of a. people 'hitherto unaccustomedd to any' but the bloodless revolutionary campaigns, wbich, it' is hoped, were terminated on the held 'of Pavon in 186il. With the blundering policy ~that ...

... HE i'ATAL KITCHEN BOILER EXPLOSION. I iNQUEST LAST NIGHT Last night the inquest touching the death of Harriet Jane Barlow, a charwoman at the house of Mr. Constable, Coltman-street, commenced at the Hessle Road Inn, before J. J. Thorney, Esq., coroner. The following gentlemen formed the jury: -Messrs. J T Kitching, James Rea, Thomas Car- Thomas Charnpney (foreman), William SimpsoD, ohn Booth, ...

... r, IOn Tuesday afternoon the annual dinner of the n 1 Barton-on-Humber New Friendly Society, was held n I at the Red Lion Inn. The spread did ample-credit d to the cuisine abilities of Mr and Mrs Frank Lr Nicholson; about fifty sat down to dinner. On the e I removal of the cloth Mr Henry Gibson, a noted d whip of the old coaching days, presided. Speeches, h toasts, and sentiments were the ...

... THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF TrAtkDE UNIONS. The PaU Attll Gazette of Monday has a note- worthy article on this important subject. It says: the two groat parties into which England is divided are not Liberal and Conservative) but those whose livelihood is assured and those whose ?? bread is more or less uncertain. It is quite consistent, therefore, that the agitation for the franchise should be ...

... THE{ POPE'S CHRISTMAS DAY ADDRESS. Om Christmsas day the Pope officiated in the b Paiica 8of St. Peter at the High Mass solemnized with all the pomp and ceremony usual on this grand occasion. He chanted the mass in magnificunt style, v his voice revealing no trace of the weakness of age * el and during the service he blessed the sword formied h like a cross, and the red hat, edged with ermine ...

... I THE severe weather that has set in has put an end to the Manchester meeting for the present, and is likely to interfere with several racing fixtures. So there is little or nothing to write about, and 1 pen these few lines chiefly to show that VEDETTE is alive and on the look out as his name implies. At present, however, all that he can see is snow, snow, snow, and that pretty deep on the ...