... -- 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 ...

... SPANISH POLITICS.-A CHANGE OF FRONT. The Times publishes the following telegram from its correspondent at Madrid MADRID, Dec. 14.-To-day's session of the Congress has been one of much excitement, and fruitful of surprises. Linares Rivas, one of the leading dissentients of the Constitutional party, and a supporter of Marshal Serrano, in the course of a long speech in favour of the policy of the ...

... THE ST. ALBAN'S CONTROVERSY. To the EDITOR of t11e PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Permit me to offer a contribution to the controversy about St. Alban's, and that from the pen of another. Mr. Mackonochie's torttiosities in obeying and disobeying the ecclesiastical law of the land conteniporaneously with the extremest language of contempt for the authority of the State over the Church and of rebuke ...

... ALARLUMING COLLISION IN THE MERSEY. AN OCEAN STEAMER SUNIK. (LLOYD'S TELEGRAM,) Li vitroot., Dec. ;.-The Peri nvie (steamer), from Montreal, entering the Mersey at 5 ?? this morning, was in collision with a steamer, name unknown, and sustained considerable damage. She now lies sunk on Crosby beach. Her crew and passengers were saved. The Peruvian is an iron screw-steamer of 3.038 gross tons, ...

... 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 ...

... CITY. Early on Friday morning last a fire broke out in the City, and it is believed that the damage done is greater than has been caused by any single conflagration since the great Tooley-street fire twenty years ago. The scene of the conflagration is within a few hundards yards of that which took place on Messrs. Foster's premises in Cheapside, causing extensive destruction of valuable ...

... THE LOUGH MASS MURERS * THE SECOND TRAL., I CO 1TGATION OF SETENCES. (BY mT ORAPE.) (FROM OIJB oWN oonassrolsnNfS.) DUBLIN, MonA! NIGHT. Yesterdayapublie meeting atClosetoken, neat Loughrea, wassulppressed. It appears that the meet- ing was to have been presided over by the Rev. James Furlong, P.P., and other Roman Cathol clergymen were to have been amongrst the speakers. Bishop Dug- I gun ...

... ;EXECUTION AT WANDSWORTIL SHOCKING SCENE. I Charles Taylor, 89, a carpenter, was executed c yesterday morning at nine o'clock, within Wandsworth Prison, pursuant to his sentence. The prisoner was tried at the November sessions of the Central Criminal Court for the murder of his wife, Caroline Elizabeth c Taylor, a woman about his own age, by cutting her E throat almost from ear to ear. They ...

... THE TONQUIN EXPEDITION. -4- to (BY SUBMARBDME TELEGRAPH.) G (MnoM OUR OVW CORRESPODMa.) fit PAWUS, SEDnaLr XIGE=. 0 hec. partisans of a Frenech expedition to Ton- I> quin are jubilant on the news, not officially contirmed, that a Chinese army of 10,000 men, which wads marching against the French corn- snandant Bividre, waS surprised it a defile by is some mountsineers, its earguard cut to ...

... 7M A LWAYS AND TEM CUISTMA ' fLWAY& IoJss ?? have been made by the Grest * ?? In meanu of which intend- ing travellers a~inj the OhcltinssHolda!zy obtfin tickets at their eisrtr, and so voidtel lulty cdently experied in obtaining tickets at a Ticket offices have hee opened W thd c6mpany at no ?? than tei ?? in the metrpos viz.:-13 Oxford-street; 23, New Oxford- 'sI; Ho~lbott-~ circus; 38, ...