... GREAT RISE IN SCRAP STEEL. A great advance is taking; place in the prices of steel and iron scrap bought in Staffordshire. Ironmasters describe the advances on soineics- criptions as almost fabulous. Steel-plate crop ends have doubled in price, being now Lb 10s and supplies very short.. Steel-sheet sharing* have advanced to JC3 13;. an increase cf Cast-iron machinery scrap has risen to VS 10s, ...

... F U IN ERk L IN W-'E STA, LNroTER A3BBUTY. [ 'f Tir remaius of thle late Bobert Brarowning were on a Tuesday l'aid to rest in WeseiLidster Abbey. The rr coffin in the mornring lay in tile ?? at 29, De Vere-gardeuis, covered wide a purple ?? and en-urounded and covered avia beautiful r wreitles from, riacongat otrers, tl:h Baroness ?? Sten, MIr. ?? Irving, St' Fredetick f L!'igihttm, Lord ...

... ALLEGED CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE CZAR. lCENTrAL NEWS TELrGRAM-1 PARIS, Monday.-The Dix Neuvieme Steele announces, that a great Nihilist conspiracy against the Caar has been discovered at St. Petersburg. Several of the conspirators were actually arrested within the Royal Palace, where one of them was also killed. ...

... THE GRAND OLD MAN'S BIRTHDAY.—In no place in the principality was there a more hearty or loyal celebration of the eightieth birthday of Mr Gladstone than in Pembroke Dock on Mon- day last, when there was a tea meeting in the Temperance-hall. upwards of 600 being present. The arrangements were carried out uncle. the auspices of the Senior and Junior Liberal Asso- ciations, the presidents of ...

... FOIilOls INTELLIGENCE. -^ERDARE. B Tuesday fire boys, /-J Davii L•=!wis (16), Frederick Phillips t Jim Smith (17) ware charged6,(16)' ad ,iib stealing umbtehas, Police-court I Ir W LI. D*vies, PaW °f «the 21st December. u £ brifl« ?ip to sale in the doorway 0f re ibap, aud were unhooked by ltl(j v ^eca l°^a and taken into Oxford-street, Gadly. wW» J^8 were di*»d«)d amongst the &cca»9(|i m, ...

... The Queen has been pleased to approve that the following be members of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council :—Sir John Lubbock, M.P., Sir John Gorst, Q.C., M.P. Her Majesty has also been pleased to approve that baronetcies of the United Kingdom be con- ferred upon Mr J. T. Dillwyn; Llewellyn, of Pen- llergare; Mr James Thompson Mackenzie, of Glenmuick Mr William Scovell Savory, Presi- ...

... DISASTERS AT SEA. The Administration of the Bureau Veritas has just published the list of maritime disasters reported during the month of Nov.,1888, concern- ing all flags. We remark in this publication the following statistical returns Sailing vesseis reported lost:—19 Americau, 1 Austrian, 41 British, 3 Danish, 1 Dutch, 8 French, 6 German. 5 Greek, 7 Italian, 7 Norwegian, 1 Portuguese, 5 ...

... THR CHARACTERISTIC* of the Liverpool, China j i uutl'.M ? t um .C :t, ,w1 it.Mt? ...

... CANIBALLISM. I Mail advices from San Francisco received at Queenstown on Tuesday state that intelligence bad reached there on December 23rd that the mate and three seamen of the British schooner Enterprise were killed and eaten by cannibals at Hammond Island, one of the Solomon group, on October 29th j and the news of the massacre having been carried to Captain Hunt, of her Majesty's corvette ...

... On the arrival of the Chatham and Dover Company's train at Moorgate-street Station, on Tuesday morning, the driver was unable to pull up in time, and the train ran violently into a light engine waiting to do some shunting. Massive standing buffers and blocks of iron and wood, which It has been found necessary to erect at the terminus of the line, were smashed to splinters, and the platform for ...

... T.A.W.—Yes, he can give you notice any time. E. V.-Your question is an old one, and is frequently debated. The city is a county in itself. DECLINED.— Jack Horner and Forgotten. ...

... DEATH OF AN EMINENT LINGUIST. Sir Philip Whittington Jacob, J.P., one of the sub-editors of Dr Murray's new MuRhsh Die jionary, has just died, after a comparatively thort illness, at Guildford, in his eighty-fifth rear. He was one of the most eminent linguists ,f the present day, being able to read and corres- pond in the principal Eastern languages, and in very European language with the ...