... I LLOYD'S WEEKLY I LONDON NEWSPAPER. _ _ ?? ETHE DIFFICULTIES OF THE SESSION The approach of an unusually active and exciting session is indicated by many signs in many quarters. The official banquets of the Ins and Outs are announced; Ministers are beginning to settle down in London; Sir Stafford 1 ortheote is in close confabu- lation with his chief the clubs are filling and exciting ...

... EDITION Po CONTINENT1 Al'D DISTANT PARTS ONLY. THE NEXT EDIiON IS PULriSHED ON FRIDAY MIOPNING. IN TIME FOR THE EkIXA' TRAINS. SEE SPECIAL NOTICE IN PAGE SIX- P OSTIS C RIPT. ELOYD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OFFICE. TIHURSDAY NIGHT. LATEST ELECTRIC NEWS, Iaf rrt (THROUGH lEUTER S AGENCY.,) - - l ENGLAND AND EGYPT. CAIRO, Jan. I2.-Sir Edward Malet, the British Consul-Glenieral, has explained to Cherif ...

... I FIRES IN THE METROPOLS. TuitJsiAY ?? 4.30 a-m- Mu overheating of the furnace in the fitters' workshonsof the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, Cold Blow-road, New-cross was the cause of a serious fire, which did considerable damage to the premises and contents- Scarcely an hour had elapsed before the brigade was called to a carman's at ERam's Fort-place, Plough-road Rotherhithe, ...

... | I . . ?? . . . . . = I 1 The public has heard of the release of Johnson and Clowes with very mingled feel- ings-pleased, as it has been, that two inno- cent men have been set free from an ignomi. nious anduninerited Dunishment; and pained at the utter impossibility of compensating the two unfortunate men for the misery they have inudec Goie. Ne have no doubt that some substantial ...

... I I Yesterday T. Creekpy, 45, an Irish tailor, whose head was bandaged up, wiasplaced at the bar of South. wark 1lolice-court for final examination, charged with maliciously wounding Ellen Crawley, his wife. Inspector Dickinson, DI division, said that between 12 and one on the morning of the 24th ultimo, he was called to 43, Snowsfields, Bermoendsey, where he found the prisoner's wife, with ...

... It has been generally remarked that the L!,escript of Jaiuary 4, ISSA, amounting to a Coup) d'e at in favour of Prince Bismarck, bears a close analogy to the famous Ordinances of I .uly 130X, which produced the French Revolu- tion of that year. Analogy there may be-but it is not a very close one. The effect of the Berlin Rescript will not, at any rate, be swift and cverwheliuiain. Bismnarek ...

... I The Gazette states that the Queen has granted the dignity of Knight -onto Mr. Charles Lilley, Chief. justice of Queensland. Mr. A. Anderson, architect, has been appointed Inspector of Baildings for the Queen at. Babsoral castle, in place of Mr. J. Beaton, retired. The Prince of Wales has become a patron of the National Skating association. The Fine Art exhibition at Ryde was visited on ...

... W. E. C.-I. The wages of a clerk, due to him by a bankrupt at the date of the adjudication, not I exceeding an arrear of four months, or 501. in amount, must be paid in full. 2. If au airvar due to n clerk of a bankrupt exceeds four lmonths, or 501., that clerk must prove and btakedijidendsupon the excess, in commlion with the trade creditors. LIFE-BOAT.-It is only the person who gives a , ?? ...

... EPITOME OF FO1tE1IGN AND GENERAL NEWVS. THE Vienna International Skating contest has. been postponed until the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd inst. THE United States on Monday adopted a resolu- tion for the anpointment of a special committee on female suffrage. THE boats of H.M.S. London, lately commanded by Captain Brownrigg, who recently lost his life while overhauling a slave dhow, have captured ...

... EPITOME OF FOREIM(ffAND GENERAL NEWS. THE Empress of Art'tNa starts for England on February 2, travellink hit' Calais and Dover. ACCORDING to intelligetire received in New York, the seven armed men who-abducted the governor of the town of Aux Cayes, in HLayti, have been captured and executed. The governor has been recovered, TRE authorities in the province of lUfa, Russia,- have discovered a ...

... 2HE GARDEN-By Wx. EARMLY. SEAbO'ABLE3 GARDENING FOR THE WVtfbli ENDINtC FEB. 4. Nvr As te sovedat showys, the season Isvr Asthenabove t vet sre luatly otusatlir ?? Ildvylcln, it wlbere, for winter and the ?? iVS wlvitints 1 .henl they anticipate to >~se tn to follow, i t, e aruest. It ?? rammleno gardening ii r^.er that the date is not be forgotten, iao should be taken of arniv~ed, whenu ...

... Many seasons have Icome and gone sine we have had to write the brief chroniel ng of an uneventful year. The rate at whic] t the world is spinning down the ringim grooves of change leaves the chronicler n; i5 rest. We crowd into one circling of th, seasons the events which, in the humdrun but easy-going days of our fathers, suflicec to furnish the history of a decade. The pace ,i is so swift ...