... * .. POLITICAL AFFAIRS. --The opening of Parliament on Thursday is dealt with in another column. Lord Derby was not expected to be able to attend, having been unwell for some days. Mr. Mitchell Henry was to move the Home Rule Amend- ment to the Address to the T hrone. On Wednesday evening the usual Parliamentary dinners were given by the leaders of the Government and the Opposition. ...

... . C Q- fl RRAL J'~OTES W.I THE YEAR'S FOREIGN FOOD. -The recently-publlished Board of Trade Returns show that last year we expended upol agricultural commodities from abroad the enormous sum b 96,879,737?., which is the largest outlay there has been for many years, and nearly ten millions more than last. The increase was chiefly-indeed, we may say entirely--upon wheat, for which we paid 33 ...

... TIHE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. The Eurl.. of Boaconsficid, as Prime Minijfe'r.j and consequently Ministerial leader in the Honse of' Lords, gives his fash-dress Parliamentary dinner, ihis'. evenl~ing at tile Forei~n.omico to his politicall friends -anui Sulporters in the I-ouse of Lords. The Dlobe of Cam-' bridge end thle following peers have aceepted invitations :; Tue Laurl of Wharucliffes and ...

... v-r M1-7 D TME XONE RULE OONPEREiE. DEATH OF 011 OF TIEE REXAfl li 'on6*i owa miONDRt>' DUJBLIN, T Tmu.y ~ The Homne :lsulo Cnference resumed itq-p is ceedings to-day. The ?? iv6 lsrgei thI n on tl groeedring iday there being betweoe three and fo tundred preseun The proqeedings were alo muth se lively and there wera oumerous senr exsciting charscetr, snd the sepoche ols rDhO,0 Biggar, and Mr. ...

... . IRFT.AI'~D ?? M A ?? : ?? Ul IceR'nlh O6uf.rtc,~ 1I ude ~i note d~ to-d. iten .lipu 'q r 4W , ot1. ,i Hor ~ hs a iofthr 'the PKbadifigso fof throudnit Aoi sex. by the iagipgcoittee0 Proep yr aop wer 'ookds po a tgbe. s meey. iout r'y~ooth the. ohv f snnhrsac oloae roe tor 'spoke~ they nteai p~kd'oas tha wih o4 . ypth thate ths9loates ?? perons RIteget ~r 4tou ofrs inba ...

... THE DISTRESS IN SOUTH WALES (BY nranGeRA) MEo= oUR OWNT cORaa5PONDMM. Te o eRTHYR, rE DnaS5JJ The meebers of the Relief Comimittee gat at the Temperance Hall last night, this mnoring, afterao on tt evening, under the presidency of the rector, and r eied reports from the gentlemen appointed to visit and rzu personal investigations in the twenty-three sab.dish* Cases of* extreme destitution were ...

... BALL ?? rFGHT1T RUSSIA F To rm mxTOU or rM DWULY NMW5. Siit,-Living amongst tho Russians I naturally hear sometthing besides the cry of 1British interests, and I venture to oiler you a tow romarks for tho considera- tioa of your readers. Tho ?? fully expeot war with England; of that you may rost aissured; and wliilo they deprecate it, aud are determined to avoid what Europe would consider a ...

... PARLIAMENTARY RE VIEW. HOUSE OF LORDS. IN the House of Lords yesterday Lord Granville called the attention of the Government to the fact that only one of two sets of papers had been laid upon the table of the House last night in reference to the Eastern Question, whereas both sets had been laid upon the table of the House of Commons, and had been published in the newspapers. He thought that ...

... UTRECIIT, TRANSVAAL, 2:. 3,. Tnr sudden change from intense excitement to comparative tran luillity i; curiously felt just now. A week ago no optimist would have veoturel to predict a peaceful termination to the crisis, and now we afc ccoparatively as free from danger as we were before the Blood Rivi conference. Such is the uncertainty of native politics. It is difficult to convey to an ...

... .XLGE:o IION ILrELLZ4E 1CEX. MARBOasOoGH.-It has bean arranged that Lord Charles Bruce shall offer himself as a caud'date for the seat rendeied vaecat by the succession to the peerage of hiis Ialfbrother, -Lord Ereest Bruce.- Lord Cbar es re- Tsresaoted North Wtilts until the fist election, when he lost his seat by the return of M; Reorge Estcourt. SALIIswuRy.-The Liberals of this city, taken ...

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... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m. I; /: U 7' s Y 'S T E E E G Ri XM f S. Al. I./ I lt it J I THE WAR. CONS IAN tlNOT'LF, Jan. 17, 9.40 P.Nt.-A report was current here this after- noon that the bulk of Suleiman Pasha's army had passed through the enemy's lines and arrived near Adrianople, but this rumour proves to have been prema- ture, nothing being at present known of the exact position of Suleiman ...