... GAZETTE SEWS. (From tics London Gazette of last ntight.) ,gl BAINKRUPTS. slatt Crowder, W. MI., new or lately of thle Ro'yal Hotel, Bte'gg Wat-erloo, rear Liverpoovl, gentleman. IL e, sawkins. Charles Weatminiocr Brldgo-roast Surrey. Lintel and Weatmiorelaold-atreet, ?? cha~ir A. W manufacturer. * act.1 Perry, John By., Bread-sfreet. London, ant Augustlin- Yorke read, Bammerasltho, Middlesex, ...

... t EXPLOSION1 S OF GUNMOWDER. . I ?? TWO HOUSES AN-D SHLOPSWRECKED. THREE PERSON KILLED. A terrific explosion of gunpew.er occrtrred early on Saturday on the premises of Mr. Hanson, gua- Fnith, Exatergste, I)oncastor, doing a largeamourt cf damsge and killirg three people. Mr. Hlnson kept gunpowder stored in his bedroom and in a room beneath. The explosion occurred in the beck rozcton of the ...

... IOUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE LONDoN\, TuRSDAY EVENLNG. ?? r. Bourke has done himself more injury by this letter to Mr. Gladstone than he will wine toff by a dozen such speeches as he made at Leeds. Of course there are plenty of wild Tories who really believe that Mr. Glaestone conspired withl the Czar, though they have never been able to fix the precise sum which he received for his treason to ...

... DIRAMATIv REFORM. |Ahen such a distingaished critic of dramatic literature, ancient and modern, as Mr. Henry Morley, and such a success- ful dramatic carpenter, to use ?? phrase, as Mr. H. J. Bvron, agree upon a scheme for the elevation of the drama through the intellectual elevation of the actor, and the consequent encouragement of the genuine dramatist, we are surely on the evo of a great ...

... Unless the near approach of the session of rarliament should induce the Govern- ment to enforce a termination of the Afghan war, it may continue during the spring and summer. Our troops, though ultimately successful in beating a gallant enemy, had to fight in the neighbourhood of Cabul a long battle, which cost many lives, especially amongst the officers. The struggle was conducted with great ...

... RISING OF PEASANTRY IN CONNEcMAR. _ ?? DARING ATACK ON? A FORCE t8h OF CONSTABULARY, bi1 THE MOB FIRED ON.-A BAYONET th; doi CHARGE. It eg INTENSE POPULAR EXCITEMEN'. ca, JY4 ,I'lSS A'SOCTIAT10S T -LEGRI. . A sciouB aifray between the police end the lei pt olee of UsCrarue, county Galway, occurred on thj 1riday. About Mifty constables were protsetiog OGn a process server, when a crowd ...

... | ATAL BOILER EXPtOSION AT ROCHDALM. On Wednesday morning, at 4, the boiler , tie chamnworkS of -Mri. -Tomas B Dodeonstreet, i.Bkchdale- exploedd, killing -Mr. Thomas Baker and his son . James' Baker, and injuring a workman nanmed John Butterworthl The works aro two storeys. high, about 20- feet in length afid 20 feet- in. width. A small Cornish boiler was under a wooden shed sp againesthe ...

... Mr. Alexander Balfour, one of the coun- cillors of this borough, whose labours in I behalf of the temperance movement and license reform are well known throughout the country, has just read a paper at the National Club in London, the object of which is to stimulate inquiry regarding the ,easis on which our English license law's rest, ' in order to secure-in his ofn 'n words- that, whenever ...

... DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTa AFRICA, The ccmplction of submarine telegraphic communication between Europe, Africa, Fond India can scarcely fail to prove one of the most important events in the history of the Airican cintinent, as well as of natlions ?? England, which are closely connected with it by the ties of commerce and emigration. It gives to Sc-ufh Africa precisely what it has wianted for so ...

... r 1I1. E TAYIf BRIDGE .DIS ASTER. i! DUNDEE. MOSDnY NiGun nn The wovrk on tne wreck of the Tay Bridge was I resutucdat noon to-day, the tide net suiting for 4' an ebrlier ?? of operatiOns. Six diers ITm were en gaged, and the explorations were contueda to ths spa'e between the fourth and fifth girders. | The eivers 'evt continuously below with the usual t leoults. finding portions of cacria-e3 ...

... The Boer meeting dispersed quietly after adopting a resolution to meet on April 6. Mr. Kruger has been elected president by the Boers, and has been instructed to summon the Volksraad; Sir Garnet Wolseley, at a dinner at Pretoria, has announced that henceforward the Transvaal would be iegsrded as a Crown colony. THE FIGHTING WITH THE NAG-AS. ,Details have reached the Times of India of the ...

... AUJSTR~ALIA. - .1~ Yo1rau TowN, DE-. 2 -via San Francisco). Patiarhmert has boen cdojourned until the 16th Jaznuary. SYDNEY, DcC. 4. Te TLard Act Arondintnt Bill has bean passed IV, Ihp AscEmb'l send is now before the scuncil. Tto bill piacin- the wire on tha same footing as the tuisbnd in divorce oases has been passed by both b p ERTIH (WESTvE2N Arausan.uLa, DEC. l. 7he Eon. Sir Archibald P. ...