... The interpellation in the Chamber on Madagasoer which M. Duclerc was to have answered wasadjourned. A semi-official communication to the j6rnalis says, MW. Duclere has bad along conferance with Lrd Lyons on Madagascar, and the negotiations are proceeding in the most friendly mauner. We hear that Englandis disposed to recognise the rights conferred on France. by the treaty of 1868, England ...

... 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 ...

... -- 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 ...

... AXTR SRT&IZXO A39,D DEPOTS _:-o0 *D cEUB. fat.ife Gnards,Hyde-park. 1st -bat. R. Hiihra. (42nd), 2nd ditto, Windsor. l eigypt; Perth. RoyalflrseGrds, Regentt'aprk lst-bat.Qxf. L.I. (43rd), Ban stD s, Meert; *anterbry gaiorenndBurmah, ox Znd, 0cliester. .1t bat. Essex R. (4th), Fort 3rd, Edinburgh. St. George and Burmah- 4th, Brighton; York. Warley 5th, York. (stlbat Derby (4fth), 6th, Sealcote ...

... CETXWAYO'S RETURN. A Durban despatch of Tuesday says:- The latest news from Zululand is to the effect that all is very quiet these. All the, Zulus have been informed of Cetewayo's immediate retarn, and have shown no excitement. The chiefs have been ordered by the Resident to Inhlatzatye, in order, it is supposed, to be informed of the arrange. ments made. The military escort, consisting of ...

... SPECIAL SUNDAY MORNING AD I DITION.. SUNDAY MORNING'S TELEGRAMS. THE VERY LATEST NEWS. Reynolds's Newspaper Office, Sunday, 4 a.m. L[iEUTEa'S TELEGRAMS, ETC.L DEATH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF BORDEAUX. Bordeaux, Dec. 23. Cardinal Donnet, Arobbiehop of Bordeaux, died this morning, THE RUMOURS ON THE CONTINENT. Vienna, Dec. 23. The semi-official Fremdenblatt, replying to-day to the assertion of some ...

... F 0REIGN INTELLIGENCE Th-aio ?? o'f tbe le' p says :-At ; tle critical' point which things have now reached the p ?? cannot lh ong. - It would have -been biread sedttled had not delay arisen in the preparation a tof 'the tudget. England, who wants to add to the ordi- r nr burdens of ypt a pbrtio of 1 the cost of her army T of becuifaion, tinnot expct Wnd i'an inerease of oxpends. el 'lre ...

... law LW COURTS AND OLD IN. JUSTICES. 20 TRIM EDITOR OF EYNLODS'WS NEWSPApER. SIR,-During the past week the new law courts, for the first time, have been open to the public. All who cared to stroll through them were permitted so to amuse themselves if they pleased. The great judicial palace we have just ad opened was free to the multitude, and Eng- land at large could step in and see what manner ...

... SMMARY OF LATEST HOME NEW8. Yesterday, John O'Donovan, aged twenty-seven, of bhe Barking-road, was knocked down at Plaistow, and run over, his leg being broken and his back serioeely injured, Yesterday, Michael Mackenzie, of ViCtoria-park.roaJa fell offe a scaffold on v hich he wfas a t wvork, breaking his collar bone and several ribs, besides sustaining several bad bruises. Yesterday, Alfred ...

... AN ZXPLANATXON N-XP1CTED. Last week we alluded to a circumstance of an extraordinary and, as regards British seamen in general, we rejoice to say, of an exceptional character. It was the abandonment to their fate of a shipwrecked crew of German sailors. The particulars as we stated then were in the main correct. A German bark named the Woden, bound to China, with a crew of fourteen men, got ...

... EMNOXY AT THE WRONG END. ,Xo, T1EF BDIOR OF 3EYOLDS'S NEWSPAP&pR. ssu,-Taking. a review this Christmas-time of the realm at large, one is constrained to say 4 that this is really a wonderful nation. The 3 more a man knows about it, the longer he E resides within its sea-girt walls, and the more ( deeply he acquaints himself with the motives of I its rulers, the more loat must he be in amazed i ...