... LIFE IN ANERICA. SPECIAL CABLEGRAM. FRO UR OT OWN CO3RESPONDF'NT. NEW YORK, TrJZ3DAYF-An2xiety is entertainale regal-ding the safety of the crew of the barqusre Shakespeare, of Hamburg. The Allan line steamer Nestorian, which has just reached Halifax, reports that on the 1 8th inst. she sighted the Shakespeare in distress. The gale which prevailed at the time prevented her giving immediate ...

... iULSTER -INTELLIGENCE. FP1oVM OUR CORRESPOSDENS3. CT AiR:cxrv uts Pt-ry Siessioxs.-The fort- nightlv court of pattv seiioris was held yesterday before Mar. .1. C. Ratbertoordl. R.IM. (chairmuani MIr Wins. A. WVoodeide, J. P.; andi Mr. S. M. Shannon. d J., p. A number of parties were charged by the constalbulary for being drunkcuriagthe Christmas * holidays, and were fined in sums varying from ...

... A. TERRIBLE ]ULNINIG DISASTER. LOSS OF SIXTEEN LIVES. t SPECIAL TELEGRAM. QUEENSTOwie, TRESDAY.-OUr latest San Fran- 1 cisco, California, mail, with advices of the 24th c December, which zeached here to-cay, contain full particrilars of tlhe cave-in at Lalne Mine, Angels I Camp, by which sixteen miners lost their lives. The mine is thirty feet wide, and is worked by two shafts about ninety ...

... 1 BE LFAST FREE PUBLIC LIBRRY. THE first annual report of the committee of the Free Library has just been issued. It shuows that. in june. 1832. the Couneil were memorialised in favour of the establishment of a free public library, and they determined to take steps to ascertain the views of the ratepayers os to whether they desired the adoption of the Public Libraries Acts. Voting papers were ...

... SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. TO THE EHITOR Or THE BELFAST NEWS-LZTTSE. SIe-Permit me to remind the friends of the S.P.G. that Thursday, the 16th January, 1890, is the last day for receiving remittances for 1889. All moneys received afterwards must be carried to the account of 1890. O S. F. DuTrouzv-JxNes. Hen. Sec. Dio. Connor. Glenarm, Rectory, Dec. 31, 1 88. ...

... a - 1\1 0 T E S . THP mystery of Ellen lMliddleton thiokens. Mr. Meynell, the editor of ?? _L'rnjl-'nd. proves that Mr. Gladstone gave him permission to pub- lish his resuscitated article. Mr. Gladstone says that he gave no such peremission. It is a tight place, and the old and slippery one will haversome difficulty in wriggling through it. The only facts beyond dispute are that some forty ...

... COURT AND) FASHION. THE COURT. OSBORNE.N TuruDAY.-The Queen went out this inorning, attended by the Dowager Lady Churchill. 4 LEG-AL APPOINTMENT. DUBLIN. TuEsnar-Tbe P;ght ?? the Attorney-General has appointed Mr. J. B. Sand- ford. Barrister-at-Law, to be -Junior Crown Prose- oator for the city of Limerick. TDUBLu-nat TUESDAY.-Lord AMhbourne wvas present at the annual dinner given by Mir. ...

... T13z lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat In- stitution have done excellent work daring the past year. resulting in the rescuefom the peril of death by drowning-and 1i the majority of instances from death itself-of as many as 408 persons. The details of the services are as follow ?? Lady Katherine, of Sunderland. 18 lives saved; brig Sraatsrath von Brock, of Rostock, 9; brig Bazar, of ...

... LEaDs. TUE3DAy.-The double execution of Robert West (45). travelling showman, and Frith Brett (39I) labourer. who were recently sentenced to death for the wilful murder of their wives at Sheffield and Halifax respectively, took place this morning, ar, eight o'clock. in Armaley Prison, near L-'eds. Both mi n since receiving their sentence have appeared perfectly resigned to their fate. The ...

... JOUR LONDON LTTER.1 BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE. BELFAST Nnws-LzTTEva OFeICB. 169, FLEET STREET. E.C.. TUcsDAY NIGHT. TH:ERE is a strong probability that the O'Shea- Parnell divorce case will be heard at the earliest possible momnent. The parties to the suit express themselves as anxious for a speedy deliverance and determination of the issue to be tried. Captain O'Shea denies altogether that he has ...

... TBqfErABlt Os- WtI't (ESTABLTSHED ATNNO 1737.) BELFAST: -WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 189D. Lord Salisbury was yesterday reported to be better. The Government have intimated t-hat they will again oppose the Channel Tunnel Bill. Rohert West and Frith Brett, both convicted of wife murder, wvere executed yesterday in Leeds. The National Teachers' Congress opened I yesterday in Dublin, wrhen the ...

... THE 1POLLTICAL WORLD. THE New Year opens with the usual rumour of political changes. Mr. AV. H. Smith, the public is told for the hundreth time. is to retire from the leadership of the House of 0Comlmons, and as Viscount Greenlands, possibly, or Viscount Strand, to find repose in the House of Lords. Mr. Smith has scarcely a claim to be elevated at one bound to an earidom, as Lord. John Russell ...