... NEW-YEAR'S DAY ON THE w CONTINENT. PRECEPT1013 1N CE11iAANY, FRANCE, AND AUSTRIA. tb .t ?? TELEGRAMS.1 hi ice - Berlin, January 1. ced The Empesor this morning received the con- I flt gratulationu of the Generals and Colonels of the It Imperial LiUe Guards on the occasion of the to New Year. His Majesty subsequenitly gave of audience to the -Ministers and the Diplomatic o pe- Corps. rs, Paris, ...

... THE GO VERNMENT AISDT ThTe Government are keenly alive to the action of the National League in ?? part of Ireland, 1 1 and are preparing to takce some vigorous steps to' counteract its eff6ets in certalt j qUSterOS. It u i 5 stated, On that is considered good authority, to be i the intention of tie Executive to Suppress the; 'branches of the Leatue by proclamation in two o more counties. ...

... TEE BENLARIG. A ms'idnight telegram. From Gibraltar. dated 11 dfiday mnorning, reports that the Admiral Poote (stearmir) towing the Beslarig has just arrived. WD '1.ba Brilarig struck a rese near Trafalgar. There 0 is a er all hole in the forepeak decks, but she is ra mooking, no water in the holds. She has lost two snchocs, 105 fathoms chain, hawser, and two life- bosts, and high-pressure ...

... MuI CHAMBERLAIN ON THE BPURTISH EMPIRE, e (ns. 1a3 4 e (BEGTET-V'S TELiEGRAgM.) e Toronto, December 31. e 0 Ir Chamberlain was a guest last night at the annual dinner of the Toronto Board of Trade. In responding to the toast of the commiercial interests of the empire, idr Chamberlain said athat he regretted the course which cer. tain journals had taken in referring to him as the ...

... WEATHER REPORT AND FOP;IGASTi, I i[TEOBOLOgICAL OFFICE, Lo.;De, T Sunday, Jazuary 1, 1888. I Sin ce the issue of our last report a brisk fall of the barometer has taken place generally, and in the v 'course of the day a depreesion. bash dvsnced-to our 31 - extremA south-western. coasts. The .wi fd has G shiftd to the fhnth-east ever Ireland and England, T eand to the snuth-weat in the aort-h ...

... FINANCE IN 1S87. ? On this occasion Nes.Year's Day, as regaads t reflections on the Moner Mark-et, bears somecloso e resemblances to the firit days of at least the lamt it five years. Bank minimum high, trade low, e i- finance fitful, money dmr tozday only to become a cheap to-morrow; add to these a ground swell of h t:adverse circumstances, part bugiear and part P a reality, and there is hno ...

... THE CWFTERS AGITATIONTJ THE ASSYNT EXPEDITION-THE PARK DEER RAID. PROMv SPEOL4L COP.RAr1onTs j a Loebinver, Saturday. a Although the gunboat Seahorse, with the '6 M.:arines on board, is still lying at anchorage in i Lechinver Bay, a close of the Assynt Expedi. p 'ion, or at all events a cessatioa of active s, measures may be chronicled with the deparzture T at Chief Constable M'Donald, who ...

... L A-T!ST T 'JAIL ?'£V1S. Ja'n. 1.-Steaniers Castle Eden, from I Calcr;lrtial; !'ewv Gutinea, Aelbeurie for Londen ,OxIIn5, arson frore Lrasiils; an d R1ecksauipoa, !I frm133 Australia, have arri ' IT BPsETO,, J.n. 1.-Sreamer Jersey City, from New York, arrived in the road-; Eovnr. Jan. ?? rmisterdarn, Itetter. V . clam for NSew York ; Dunedin, from tnauieocs; Richmond HIll. LondoL fcr 1ew York ...

... ECOLE'SIASTICAL. I ?? FU. Cnetrnca-The ladnies of the con-t e'graion recentlv resolved to ,id in the reduction £ of the debt on the nesw church hr c(,llectien boxes. e The sum thus raised was 2129 1s Id., P YESTERDAY the Very Rev. Principal Caird, 'D D., Glascow, officiated in St Plauts Chilrch, I Greernck. There was a i3rge-cur.greglation presenC. .. meoos IBAPtIsT Carri.C-Tha annual con- o ...

... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE, ?? it i ir? 5 FLEXsT STEtET, ?? latesttelegrams Suanday Night. la The latest telegrams from Berlin and St Ptetrsburg offer a better assurance of peace n than we have had for some weeks past. The 1i Czar's consent to the publication of the forged letters will in all probability, be follow ed by a - more amiable attitude on the part of Prince g Bismarek, and as long as ...

... 'A RIVAL OF THE OVERDUE STEAMER LORD GOUGH. - ?? .> ' J t w i s l . I The Amlerican ine United States Mail steamer Lord Gough, which was about six dayv3 overdue, and which it was feared had been dis. I abled iln the Atlantic, arrived at Queenstown at e 6 A.MI. on Saturday, all beinrg well on 'board. t Having landed passengers and despatches she i- proceecedforLiverpool. A Queenstown corre- o ...

... THE AMERICAN PtLA WAYS. s1 - - 5 (REUTER'S TELEGUR.M8S.) a Ph-ladelphia; Dec. 31. Wherever strikes break out on the Phila. delphia and Reading Railway system the places t of the men who go out are taken by non. I unionists. In one division of the coal region, however, only a few are working. 1 New York, Dec. 31. 8 About one thousand men employed at one I of the freight depots at Philadelphia ...