... AMMIXICA. A fire has occurred at a building at Providence, Rhode Island. The building contanned a number of workshops, in which numerous persons of both sexes were employed. A panic occurred among the workpeople, and some of them jumped from the windows. Two of those thus atkmpting to escape were killed, while over a dozen were injured, five fatally. Nearly all the killed and injured are ...

... AIe Divorce Bill was disposed of by the Chamber on Monday, the final majority in its favour being 336 votes to 150. Last year it was rejected by a narrow majority, M. Brisson, now President of the Chamber, being one of its most strenuous opponents; but at the general election he promisecd neutrality in future, and his eleva. tion to the chair has made it easy for him to redeem this pledge. ...

... AN ANN72TUAL SCAND1AL. When Cdeteuiayo visits the Courts of Justice, and finds them all closed, he will probably feel some surprise ,at this being the case. But when infornie; 1 that they remain so for three months., and that urinig so long a period Eng- lish justice is at a stmnclstill, and Englishrmel are unable to ohtain redress of their wrongs, in all probability the barbarian monarch will ...

... IPBRIAL PARLIAMENT. toves or G0HOXbOS.-MORD&Y, THE OCOUPAT'ION OF EGYPT.-Sir S. NORTJ COTE: I beg to give notice that I shall, on as early day as I can, call attention to the present employmec o a portion of the British forces mn Egypt, and se move- 'That this house is entitled to a fuller explan -tieu of the matue and proposed duration of suech empl ent, and- the estisated cost thereof, than ...

... SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17. SATURDAY'S EDITION. I1NIST:E AL CHANGES. Mr. Gladstone has resigned the Chancellor. ship of the Exchequer, a post which will be taken by Mr. Obilders, who will be succeeded it the War-office by Lord Hartington. The Aear vacancy being at last reached, we are told that Lord Derby is to be Secretary for India. -We are not aware of any reason why Lord Derby should be selected ...

... SUNDAY MORNING'S TELEGRAMS. THlE VERY LATEST NEWS. Reynolcls's Netspaper Office, Sunday, 4 a.m. [JEUTERaS TELEGRAMS, ETC-] THE CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT. MORE FIGHTING, YESTERDAY. RETREAT OF THE ENEMY, WITH HE&VY LOSS. Central News telegram, Port Said, Aug. 26, 2.20 p.m. Action 'was again resumed this morning, but was chiefly confined to the artillery, the British having eighteen guns. After some ...

... -- FOREIGGN TELEGRAMS. _. - 4-- THE EXPLOSION AT PARIS. EXECUTI[ON OF OBERDANX. FRANCE. Paris, Dec. 20. The JoTrnal des D~bats to.day publishes Icalgty article on the subject of the French expedition to Tog quin, which concludes as follows:- The real danger this matter is our own indecision. We must render oi protectorate over Tonquin effective, and send thither sufficient troops to destroy ...

... IRELAZZL The work of 4organizing the National League is pro. ceeding Steadily, and new branches are being formed every week. Meetings for the purpose were held at Mulliugar, Tullamore, Drogheda, and Kilrush. At Mul- lingar the Reev. J. Gaughran presided, and in his open. ing speech he exhorted the farmers to meet the labourers in a kindly spirit, remembering that to them wias due the success ...

... ElLECTTOX INTELLIGhTCM. WEsTbIINsTEi.-Under the presidency of Lient.. Colonel Sir James M' Garel-Hogg there was a meeting of the members of the London and Westminster Work- ing Men's Constitutional Association, when Lord Algernon Percy appeared as the Conservative candidate for the borough, and spoke upon the principal political questions of the day. On the motion of Mr. J. Ross, seconded by ...

... The Budget for 1882.3 may be deseribed by a simple process. To the expenditure of last year add a quarter of a million for relief to highways and to the income nearly the same amount from carriages upon two and four wheels, and you have the Budget for the year to come. There is a kind of poetical justice in relieving the farmers from highway rates, and in calling upon the country gentlemen who ...

... MM. FORSTER ON THE GOV WR- MENT POICY, AT BRADFORD. On Friday night the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, ALP. lad an enthusiastic reception at a crowdad meeting of Liberal electors, which he addressed in St. George's Hall, Bradford, in support of the candidature of Vr. Isaac Holden for the vacancy in the representation of the North-West Riding of Yorkshire. The meeting was held in St. George's Hall, ...

... S6UNDAY I.ECWVURES. [Patrtiettlars shoelld reaoh the Office not laite thus Satl urduy sneru)iejs.] N.-Alliaece Club, Shaftesbnlry-street, at 8.30 p.m., Recitals by Mls. Frank Dallas.-The Clarendon Club, 80, High-street, Ililigton, at 11.30 ?? Mr. W. Osborsie (vestryman), Irish Inlgratitme to Bnglnud (adjonroid debate); Mr. M. J. Lyons will roply; at 8:50 p.m., Musical Eatertalumeat. ...