... GCZAPS MODI T-H13 COMIc pApMFS. ?? 1- L[From Pitunch I Swivellerianisn.-Froin the police renorte we hare di's covered that there io a s0ciety called 't te Social 'Thump,.' What at Saivelierianl title. 'Tho dispilute which wiade tt-c trullics Poliec-collrt Catids turned ot: a que-tion o0 su.l~ s, citia thle ma :gistraite, E1 r. Lushisgtou (coulds there hla le a otiore aigigntnivimtly ...

... THE EUBLIC HEALTH. From the Itegistrari-general'e return we learn that during the week endiug Dec. 24 the deaths registered in 28 great towvns 6f England and Wales corresponded to an annual rate of 22 8 per 1.000 of their population, which is estimated at 9,244,099 persons in the middle of 1887. The deaths registered. alphlbebicallyarranged, corre- sponded to the following annual rates per 1 ...

... THE PROVINGES. DURIAII.-Cuious RAILWAY ACCIDENT. -Early. on Friday morning a singtlar acci- dent occurred on the Jarrow and. Poutop railway, near Moukton, which is about a nfle fr6m Jarrow. An engine was engaged in -shunting some waggons, when the locomaotive's further progress was sud- denily impeded by the waggons in the rear omining into collision with a horse and cart, which were standin ...

... SPE CIAL SUNDAY MORNING EDITION. SITDAY MORNING'S TELEGRAMS. THE VERY LATEST NEWS. Reypnolds's Newspaper Qjjice, Sunday, 4 a.m. REUTEB'S TELEGlRAMIS ETC. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN CHINA. HUNDREHDnS UPF LIVES LOST. Paris, Dec. 31. According to intelligence which was received here to-day by mnail from Chinu, a powder magazine cou- taining 40,0Uo kilogruamines of gunplwder explodted at Amoy on the ...

... I NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGE1NCE. Ass important addition will be made to the active list of the navy early in 1888 by the completion for service of the first-class battleship Rodney, one of the new irolsichds attached to the Medway Steam Reserve. The Rodney was commenced on Pei). 0, 1882, and was launched on October V, 1884, the christening cerenosny being performed by tile Duchess of ...

... JUDICXAL MEWTS 13 11LANDr.-A IT72rp- .oia O .lM. The Dublin Gfmoeiifo, publishied on Tucsday evening, contains an order of a ost screoping idicaracter as regards the lixingof rents. ft is tiele iunder the 29ith section of the Land LwY Act of 18S7, rni declanres that' the judicial rents fixed in the years 1S81, 1852, 18:1S 1384, adil 1eSS in the districts set forthi in a schedule annexed to all ...

... RAM 72 2 SCOTCa Aeon 1'ls., A Stornoway correspondent, telegraphilng on Sunday night, says:- For some timue back rumours lave been frequent that the cottars of the Point district of the Island of Lewis contemplated mikalug a demonstration in sup- port of their demand for the fatrmi of Aignish, at present occupied by Mr. Albany Newall, a Yorkshire farmer. It is mainly a sheep firm, but is ...

... IMAMPANSU OWDITZBM. That most subtle and sagacious of diplo- matists, Prince Talleyrand, once made the somewhat cynical observation that a blunder was ofttimes worse than a crime. The Prince of WVales is old enough to have taken this observation to heart. But one of the eharacteristics of the Guelohs, that of with increasing years come increased selfishness, recilessness, and brutality of ...

... THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW. After a chequered course, the year 1887 has wrapt his robes about him, and departed from our gaze. Before welcoming his lusty heir and successor, we pause to take a brief retro- spect of the twelve months which have so swiftly sped, bearing with them their record of mingled joys and sorrows, national and in- dividual.. Fortunately, both at home and abroad, the year ...

... A ZRUITLMSS MISSIOIO. IX. 1- - A AI Al . I I I Wt e publish below a telegram from the head-quarters of the Italian troops at t-saia informing us of' the safe arrival of the Englishli mi-sion hea:led by Mr. Portal and their return to Egypt. Alr. Portal conferred ex- clusively with the Italian c ommaLnder-in-chief, and avoided all intercourse with other persons. rery little is, therefore, ...

... TnEE PESMS AWD TU2 CGARE-IE uACi. This Act comes into operation to-day, and henceforth it will be an offence punishable at law for a trader to sell any butter substitute, or butter with an admixture of any foreign matter, as butter; butter being defined by the Act as a substance made from milk or cream, or both. The fraud-not the less a fraud because hitherto committed with impunity- that this ...

... TZE STORNOWAY CROrTMRS. A telegram from 6torrioway lust night states that six suummouses in connection with the recent rald on deer at Pask were served to-day, and the heariug lias been fixed for the 6th of January. MEETING OF PARLIA5llSNT.-By proclanmation of the QOllcell, pablished in Fridaly's Gu(zetfe, parliament is semimoned to roeet oA Thurslay, Feb. V, for the deepatch of bushiess. A ...