... I THE POPE'S CHRISTMIAS ADDRESS TO i THE CARDLNALS. (FROM OUl SfECIAL COORESPONDENT.) Rome, December 26, 1881. Cateesr7s-s is ushered this time into the 1 Italian political and religious world under gloomy auspices. The centennial strife between Pope and COesar, prolonged into our own age as thc Roman Question, wears at this moment a decidedly grave aspect. Better things, it will be ...

... OURI LONDON CORREFSPONDE ITC. i 0. 1 LI, ET ST AR ET, Sunliday Nigi't. oaxpootation that t!n. J ~ {ox evtaent %Tould evect,'ally a esther the praoleon of a Conztitutioi.ai Corernment hor *'apan. AfteC an activc agitationll ctl:-iQ on for upwards oi two yctrs bv relpreC ntiti'.e delegiltes frorn varius plroviucos assmlble 1 in the capital, and by otther sypnipatfiscrs wvith reforma, thie Mi ...

... GTITENE L.AtL FOREIGN1 E E WS, (FrsTE'S TELEGRAM.) TEE AN-JGLO-FRENCH TR EATY. Paris, December 31. The Commissioners clel-ia6d e1it4 the task of carryingortisenegotittbic for an Anglo-French Treaty of Conme'-co are Sir ('ha.ees Dilke, Sir -L'ivers Wiits, Mr K~ennedy, and Mr Anstin Lee for England; and N. hi. tiarnbetta, Snuller, Ass and MIlarie, and Al. Mariaui, Director of Consulates, i and ...

... SIAII'I;UILDENG NOTES. y it is alwvays plecasing to record the prosperity tie of trade, fidiowring upon as season of deilness * more or less protracted ;it is especially gratify- es I ing, to 'be able to do so in thle case of an industry -with slecir large interests iit stake as those of~ slipluinlidlg. A few days ogo.- we published ler StatLisi;S sulopliecl by Clyde sstipbuilders Whichl sit ...

... OU-59MIX, 'MONDAY J1Oi'NINL, J Ysc&i E. The chief events in the3 Irish news th;i t morning are a brutal murder and several oat- rages ?? more brutal. On Saturday s iforning a mysterious stranger entered tile house of an old woman uamed Gvroughan, 855 - ears of age. lie shot one of her daughters dead and severely wounnled another, and Mrs Crougban herself only escaped j by taking refuge under a ...

... PROFESSOR RAMSAY AND LARGE CLASSE6 IN OUR UINIVER~SITIL'S. University, St Anurlee, N.B., SraA fe ?? Sol, ISS1. Sin-A ew ?? I maclc at Is ,,t meetinig of our General CoUnicil as tic the scardal to our Scottishl ujiversity studies ~aarcri rg mm the Jar-ge numbe~rs orf 'l-rs or ?? 'vs attending, truivererty classes have g~ivenl occasionto a Curv-1 spondesce betwem ra rofesser Raincsa and ...

... TITE LT''1OA'T SMIVICu IN'£ issi tot, 'I2 lie frequno~cv, deterninastion, and gallantry of I thl lifeboat service ilurmig the storms of the year char, has jutcloscd have been unnar-ajllred in rise ainnals or the itoa Lrfeboar Instituntion, and e no one surely can peruse the following record vvithout is expenicaciog feeling~s of ?? of sotisfactiou, at the grentar aounit U` success wviich1 ...

... C!'URCH LAZ--',AlS. A bar upeldas o Ipenzedon z.turda y in the City Hall S-Uoo, in, CoUaetlau withi St Lule's ?? Cauureb, Irby orust ?? Grosshili. 'Teere si;ns a large lait~endille o- ,Ladies alld gelLtllu:r1. vos llto said if he were to take a text i.cr IIs addiress it svuold he, ' Let down your nets for a£ draught. (taun,, tea.) ite hlad snore toanu once adlvocatedI tu the mueanxs they h:ad ...

... L.AST YEA.-CS WRiECKS. Two tbons and and trirty-r.nae actual shipwwreeks Occutred thoueghout the worl last year, ana tuie ?? no prnperty lost was wa ?? sterling, this slumu including lonrish property o',ed i n tie United Kingdon taud the Colonies valued at ,'lt'0J,63,d5!i. ompa~red i -ho ;,reviou5 yeti t i!!l'ra lva.'all t!13 ?? oif .3A ill OAs Slumllner of wrecsr nud an iucrease of about isin ...

... THE SCINCE OF 1881. I THE year which has just expired has been a, year of steady progress in the advancement of scientific knowledge, although it has not I been distinguished by any especially marvel- lous achievement which has taken the world 'by surprise and has Ancome the talk of the day. The branch 0osfcience which has un- I doubtedly attracted the largest share of popular attention has ...

... TIHE GOVEIREI.-NT AND THE LAND hl~vrGuE. The Duke of Argyll Las sent the fo'lowing letter to the Til es- ' It is w ith regret thiat I feel conmpelled to notice one pci ragrich of t::e letter of the i residene of tue . Boiard or Lr.;de ?? to Ir Pa-ge ii.pps, atod 1iub.ieslicu ill your paper of tile 2Gth That sara- ,r-slih is :rs follows:-' T!,e avowved objects of tire lra Land L-ad sue-thc ...

... 3nLLrOrT.r-ESTAELI3;t1IV Ciut .og.-011 Friday eve , t!,e L:tltIl LC:l3l4geAtitoztal ,,iree of tL` } etanhebsed C ;n-.lr ?? plooc in the '19;;nS HaL'- the Rev. JnUe s. MLaclab ir the ch;air. On the platform were thu Rev. Mtr iuartiay, WestChurcb, Greenloc,.; Dr Kerr, Mr John Stuart, factor to the }Eari of GlasgoNv; r Robert Thompson, Mr J. N i i-iobvrteon, Glasgow, and ?? ,entieuten1. Lettexs ...