... SPEROUL TELAERAM U. I MILL EIRE NEAR BELPAST. On M~onday night and -util yesterday morninF the fire brigades of Lisbarn and Belfast were at work on an extensie fire in the linen tbread works of Measrtl WilIa-UBatbdur and Sons, at Aildea. About £26,000 worth of thread was either de- strnyed or dasnag&L Tim PROPOSED CHANNBL TUNNEL. The Press Association is requested to state that the Board of ...

... SALUS POPl'LI tEX So1'7ELA. ] 0- Lord Salisbury is reported to be suffering fror, a verv sevcre cold, and was, yesterday, *norred to his room at Hatfield. The quarterly returns issued by- the lreasurv last night show that the gross produce of the revenue of the concluding quarter of last vear was £21,577,798, which -W4s an incrense on the return for the corre- SpU;fi(W(g 11p'riud ol 1888 of ...

... We understand that the Watch Committee of 1 the Corration, at their weekly meeting vester- day, had before them a report of the Head Con- d stable with regard to immoral houses in the city, v and that they directed it to be printed. r Mr. Best. the organist of St. George's Hall, has t written to the Financial Sub-Committee of the u Finance and Estate Committee asking for sir months' leave of ...

... THE YEARS RNSOLVENCY. r Throwghout the Urited ?? > r'-gazetted' f ,ine in 1 889 were thu s d~rsn-> it amongst the foi on in C tndes. ad. fo- ?? ..parisons, wce gir'e the total nuinbe.:- Len .S:: it 1888, 187. 186 ar.d 186 ?? B ?? ?? ?? e Building and tlmlher d4es ?? -:C ti3 71 -j . Cbenij and drz,, sts ?? ii ' 11! K : .e Coa and atijngj r-.'des ?? 119M11 . Corn cattle. 3nd ;eed trades .. 2 ...

... . LTIROUGH StOEB'S AGENCY.] Dr.. PETE RS' EXPEDITION. BERiLIN, TUSDAY.-The report [lately current that Dr. Peters' expedition had not-been n Ms- sacred is repeated in a telegram desrttched from Zanzibar yesterday afternoon to the frtiiner Taqe tebblt. The nege states that, acrdring to inteligence jnst received there, the expedition was on its march between Mouint Kenia.nd Lake Baringo, and ...

... LATEST WS T E COUR, &C. . O So 1tsAy. e The Qdit wett out this mornug attended by the DowI e isdy Cur Cous't arcssvsr. NEW YEAR HONOUI . r The Querin bas Wen plesed tb approo of the Iom etmt of Sit' John (brt tw'be a embr of her Majt-Mos Bonorble P v CounciL The Que~en hat conlurrd baronetcies of the ?? :Kingdomn upon Mr. J. T. Davies Mackenzie, of G~lennoiclr; nd Mr. Willa mf Scoell Sufry, ...

... ASTRON-OiCtl, INOTES FOR I .jANLARMY. ! Tbe S ea i'e,.r cor.~n in wista moonlight nights, Thise New f 1fl0' ti*Q the iitbrng of the oth - i ns ietd all advantage in any way v astronomerust for th1e t huies of full moon are not j I for their wvfwrk: bitt the vast majority ofi ew eD, loonli-ht l~ri:-ghts when they are full I tOP g, ?? tbe b Sinning of a new year. a resoii tionu~ t thie being ...

... I E CLESIASTiOAL INTELLIGENCE. TheRev. Samuel Gashinghasbeenlicensedby the bishop to the ecresy of Skelmersdale, and the 1Rev. Thomas Dickson4 MKA., has been licensed to the perpetual curacy of Christ Church, Waterloo. The well-known minister, the Rev. Alun Roberts, B.D., w-as buried yesterday at Towyn. There was a great gathering, some 70 mintsters attending; inducting tbe Rev. Pr.nThomas, ...

... -1 CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot unldertake to return communicators of 'titch ?? dy not avail ourselves. Communkcations shoald aelwvs be legibly written in ink, and one &H; 4.fr' M- Pcot , ...

... BIRTHS & DEATHS IN TWENTY- EIGHT ENGLISH TOWNS. 52a-D WEEK, 1889. In the week ending Saturday, 28th December, 4248 births and 4007 deaths were registered in 28 of the largest English towns, estimated by the1 Hegistrar-Geierml to contain a population of. M555,406 persons in the middle. of this year. The births were 376 below, while the deaths ex- ceeded by 548, the average weekly numbers during ...

... IThe Archduke Joseph, commander of the Hungarian Honved Army, has made the Ian- guage, traditions, and habits of the gypsies his special study. Extensive as the literature about this strange and in' erestingpeople already is (says the 'Vienna. correspondent of the I StJmndard) the researches of the archduke have brought several unknowrn features to light; and lie is indefatigable in correcting ...

... LEGISLATION FORP THE YEAR . 1889.. (52 A'N g Vial.) Though the public statutes for the year 1889 amount to 76, with the exception of -Mr. Goschen's scheme for the extinction of the National Debt, the Succession Dnties, and the Scotch Local Govertnent Bill, there is nothing in them of paramount importance. A large section of these statutes consist of trifling rectification of existing laws. A ...