... - - I ?? + !t'$ t0 ! tz 41 ?? SILUS POP= LZZ mimr. Sub ect to the state of public business permitting, Mr. Gladstone has consented to pre-ide on one of the four days' celebra- tion of ti e national eisteddfod to be held at Denhig-h, next August. ?? issued on saturday night show that the gross revenue for the year ended Lecembaer Z1 was £66,682,179, and for the quarter £ 26,919,560. There is a ...

... THE REV. H. T. HOWAiT ON THE I PAST YEAR. I Last night the Rev. H. T. Howate'preaohedlhs i 13th annual sermon on b, Past year in a few of a t its Moral, Social, and Religious Aspects, in the Presbyterian Church of England, Queent's-road, s selecting as his text 1 Peter, iv., 3 (last clause), c 'The time past of our life' The, spacious edirice I was crowded in etery part. After some ...

... HI'EE STATE OF IRELAND. - - 1 - - . 4 { THE MAYOR OF DaOGMoA.-A Drogheda tele- gram states that application has been made to the executive by the friends of John MIanagau, suspect, now in Dundalk gaol, who has been elected mayor of Droghede, requesting that be be liberated to allow of his investment vith the mayoralty, or that the corporate body be permitted to perform the ceremony ian prison. ...

... IN}EW YEAR'S DAY SERVICES. BISHOP RYLE AT THE LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE. The Bishop of Liverpool began the new year's ministrations by preaching to the poor in the church attached to the Liverpool Workhouse. An early celebration of the holy communion was conducted by the chaplain, the Rev. Eben Smith, and was attended by sixty communicauts. The morning service was most impressive, and the ...

... THE COURT, &c. OSBOENE, DEc. 31. The Queen and Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Victoria Baillie; and her Majesty walked this etorning with the Princess Beatrice. A Portsmouth correspondent states that the Admiralty, having decided to place the Cape station under the command of an admiral, have appointed Rear-Admiral Salmon, VC., to succeed Commodore ...

... A BENEVOLENT NECGRO CHIEF. Gentlemen,-A member of my church, Captain M'3Kee, was the chief mate of the Guiding Star. She had reached the West Coast of Africa, and, while fetching a pilot. the boat was capsised, and Mr. il.ee and four of the sailors were drowned. Ja Ja, the chief, was so touched with the sufferings of the men that he has generously sent Sf8 to Mr. de Cardi, of Tower ...

... ASRONOMMAcL OCCURENCES -I :M DURIG JANUA. (Vrom dhe illustrated London Almanc.) The Moos Iwil appear a little to the east or leftb of Mar - during the evening hours of the 3rd, the' space between tbhem iacre'asing aS the night ad- vances; they ?? be both visible -tbronghout the night. The Moon is mear Venus on the morning of the 1°th*' and near.ercury on the 20th. Duriug the evenirg-hours of ...

... LOCAL NEWI. TEZ BAsrFE To Loins DEBBY AT ra Ronus CfLuB-The arrangements for the banquet to Lord Derby at the Liverpool Reform Club, Dale-street. on Wednesday evening, are now completed, and it is expected that the gathering will be one worthy of an occasion upon which the beads of two of the leading Lancashire families will be present at the Liberal headquarters. All the tickets were disposed ...

... M AIL NEW S. torss. DFc. 31.-The British India Steam Xavxiea Comualny's steainsi:ip Goa, from Kiurrachee a:,c 1 - Persria G4ulf, lext here yesterday for Lo!don2; a:, steamship Marians. trim Lotidon, ijute for Kurrache> .. the Persian Gu(i. BELD-eSi. DEc. S3.-The Peninsular and Cne:.:_i Company's steamnship 'iaofrc arncrveua Ler at o-e p,:. to-dav, emtaried iajils, and leit at three p.m. London ...

... MUMMTtA IN PAIRVO. In Berlin there are nose 478 separate r'ls-,aetr,7 and periodical pritTs. Arthur Pedder. aged twelve years. fy1 e ' high Cliffs of Steephili Bay. Isie oJ.: Iriday, immediately in frout of the ?? - HoST~ital for Co..snmption, on to ctlr'-- I beneath. He Was 5so dreadfully b. ?? ?? recovery is considered doubtfin. ?? 22 of Marcb, 1233, beinzg t he the German 7saperur, las beeu ...

... THE WEATHERt I I SUNDAY JANUAIRY 1. i EIGHT Pas.-Thd weather over the British Islands is in a very chanugeablb condition; the winds vary in direction south-west and north-west, and the barometric oscilletitjns, though small, are frequent. in the course of last evening a depression tratelled along our north-west coasts in a north-easterly direction; and as the barometer had been rising all day ...

... IUIVD. TIlE REV. W. BINNS ON THE DEATH-ROLL OF 1SSL. Last evening, the Rev. NV. Binus delivered his annual address, in the Charing-eross Unitarian Church, Birkeuhead, on The Death-roll of the Closing Year. He -estimated the following characters:- 11. A. BLANeuIr, 75.-This remarkable French revolutionist belonged to-an exi.remeclass. of which Iwe have no-specimens in England, and even the ...