... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... OUR LONDON CORESPONENCE. I -LOwXnDo!, TUMsDAY MGMnr. Closing alid dreariness and partial darkness due to the rontinued fog, the old year wears its shroud as it dies to London. Fittingly, as it seems, the day was dark for the poet's funeral in the Abbey, Bat there is more brightness of light than has existed for some days past, and in the suburbs the clouds have been 'high though the sky has ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... -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 , ...

... At Bangor Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Pierc ard Dr. Richards, Thomas Owen, joiner, Mndai Bridge, appeared to answer three sum- monses for drunkenness, assaultingi Robert Jeffer- soni, Is toil collector at the Menni Suspension Bridge. and for inteiruptiug the same in the.l discharge of his duty. Mr. Thornton Joncs. who prosecuted, pressed lor the inflction of a substantial penalty, the ...

... NEW TEA''S EVE. The sharp Efost, 'with an agreeable crispand bracing air, whvich- has prevailed in Liverpool during the closing days of the Old Year dis- appeared yesterday, and the eve of the New Year was marked by a heavy and continuous downpour of rain, Slight showeni fell in the afternoon, but at about seven o'clock a perfect deluge of rain came on-- It eatggested a sort of gralmnltical ?? ...

... UmVEnSn COLLEGE OF NORTH WALTES, BANGOn. - GanyBExjzT APPOtUnMrrS. -The Lord President of the Council (Viscount Cran- brook) has appointed Sir Owen Roberts, Sir Hugh Gwen, K.C.B. and Dr. Isanmbard Owen to be governors of tbe University College of North Wales for five years from the 31st Docember, 1889. Hislordship has also been pleased to reappoint Mr. J. Lloyd Griffith,. Mr. P. P. Pennaut, ...