... - - ?? ?? I.- - i - Tllu??t I.. i - o F Delft if 0, I? ?? ? I . . (SPLCI.IJ; TEL~tbii,'. _- Clo~nqei! Fiidav Niht. The installation of the Mayorolf.Clonmel,.2deV,' man O'Connell Hackett, j.P., took place at the - Courthouse to-day. 'His worsbip wes a'tiredj'n his official robes. Hi was preceded by-the swoi7I- bearers and the mace-bearers, enad was Acpomrpanied* by.the members of the Coupoil ...

... TEE AFGHAN WAR. MORE FIGHTING. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) London, Thursday Evening. The Daily News publishes the following tele- grams:- Cabul, Dec. 22. The 12th Bengal Cavalry left Sherpur garrison for Butkak last night. They found Butkak held by the enemy, End proceeded to Luttaband, which place they reached in safety. Three men were wounded. The wluhle of General Gough's brigade are at Luttaband ...

... THE LORD MAYOR AND CORPORA- i TION AT THE CATHEDRAL.. , ._ - I The Right Ron, the Ltrd Mayor (Edmund Dwyer; Gray, XIP.) and the Lady Mayoress, accom- panied by the High Sheriff and the Catholic Alder- men and Councillors of the Corporation, at. teaided High Mass in state yesterday at the Marl. borough-street pro-Cathedral. The occasion was made remarkable not only by the grandeur of tle sacred ...

... I __ ~ The following letter appeared in yesterdays Times:_ SIR-The suggested relief works will onll employ men, leaving the women and children practically idle. My suggestion, if carried out, will at a small cost provide feminine employment for thousands of these duringthe coming famine, and, if properly worked, for years after the famine has ceased. The women of the West of Ireland knit ...

... STIR NV. HARCOURT, M.P. _ A., . ,. ?? (SPXOO1L TELEQ!4M5.) O-ford,ThuedA v Night. The annual dinner of the Druids waS held in this city to-night, amongst those presew.1 being- Sir W. Vernon Harcourt, Q.C., I.P., and Mr Hall, M.P., members for the city, and Mr. Chitty, the Chosen second Liberal candidate at the next elec- tims. Sir W. Harcourt, on rising to respond to the toastof The City ...

... I THE POSITION I A mG p.ISTAN. (From the Mornag Post of Yesterday.) The dispersal of Mobamned Jan's army and thti restoration' f British authority inr Cabl xitigata the military diffipultie' iii 'Afghanistan and con. front us with more serious questions relating te the political settlemient of thateountry. Supreme control'ovet the foreign 4ffairs of Afghaniitsi and the, right to ssed British ...

... ] |1 . 7_ (By Reuter's and: Ordinary Telegraph.) ENGLAND AND TURKEY. SUSPENSION OF DIPLOMATiC RELA- TIONS WITH THE PORTE. Constantinople, Wednesday. Sir Henry Layard having received no reply to the note presented by him to the Porte in reference to the measures taken by the Turkish Government against M. Koelle and Ahmed Tewfik, the Mussulman Presi- dent, yesterday suspended official relations ...

... -I - -- C OMM p . m0S0P ?? ,t- Our Tullamorno Correspondent telegraphs as fol. lows :-At the forthoming general election the Ringe$ County w e contested by Charles Daw. eon, Esq., T.C., Dblin, d Beard 0. Molloy, Fsq., B.L., London. SIR DOMINIC CORRIGAN, BART., 3LD. We learned on inquiry at an early hour this worning at the residence of Sir Dominic Corrigan that no change has taken place -u ...

... so- II-. QUESTION - Midudle Teinplem D e e. SIB-The letter of Lo tYel, published in yQtST bpU9 o$ ~e 26Xth ,st&deesrge~ attentiop for ?? c ain as e n it ilpes th ~vo~.gthat, to SnQte h ?? alt' dg. nt tkin the abolida of 4alfdied W014sl be. est Arvlxn4o j BbhoIld see no objetiao'tt tW qstion beingdlse34,if only itereopaired calmly an4 fairly. There f no one who sw1 gainsay his lordship, but ...

... i I ne. . . A _ (By Reuter's ?? Orrhsay Telegraph.) I TilE ATTEMP TO,) ASSASSINATEI THE PING OF SPAIN. Madrid. Wednesday. Fhe preliinain-ry judicial examination o Frzartis`o Otero Gonznles, the Duthor of the |nttetnt on the ing's life, has comimnenced. I Two of thie picTsOnS s-rho were arrested yester- day on ?? of complicit; have since bei)cn t at 1lert3y. Otero's roth:ler, aed 11. hicu ...

... ?? - ?? MR. PARNELL IN EWI . YORK. ?? - ,o ~ I HIS SPEECH IN MADISON HALU (BY CABLEGRAM FROM OUR SPECIAL CORP.Z SPONDENT.) New Yoak, Monday. Yesterday evening Mr. Parnell met the first great public assembly since his arrival in America. An orderly and enthusiastis assemblage of from 6,000 -to 8,000 Irishmen assembled in Madison. square Gardens. An hour' before the time fixed for the meeting ...

... I SkATE OF FTE COUTRY i T DTROW 'yn 'Tnsu Larkfield, January 1I DEus SIB-Looking over some papers relative to the state of Ireland at different periods since thoUninb, my attentiot was eol1ed to some letters of Cobbett's on the frightful state of Ireland. He says, I have seen thbs.1ninrbirg ?? thousand working persons, all the clothes upon the bodies of whom were not worth so much as the ...