... NEW YEAR'S HONOUILS. - The Queen has been pleased to approve of the appointment of Sir John Lubbock, Bart-, M.P., and Sir John Gorst, Q.C., M.P., to be members of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. The. Queen has also conferred baronetcies of the United Kingdom upon J. T. Davies Llewelyn, of Penilergan; James Thompson MacKenzie, of Glenmuick; and William Scovell Savory, president of ...

... I Crowther In Training. I The tiht for jglOO which has been arranged be- tween the Welsh champion, Morgan Cmwtber, and W. Baxter will, it is believed, come off in the course of the current month. Crowther has taken up his quarters at Cowbridge3 being housed at the Druids' Hotel of that town. He is accompanied by his trainers, and soon after dawn each day the party may be met bard at work along ...

... POLITIC~S A.ND) SOCIE-TY.r Nomr LEEDS, Wednesday, January 1~st. L 0 oreimpressive scene, w rites our London .Correspondent, has ever been witnessed in WVeanminsterif .Abbey than the funeral of Robert Browning. Found!} the grave of the poet stood distinguished representa- tires of politics, literature, art, and science, Browning s funeral was in a very true sense a national tribute, and almost ...

... LOCAL A.NDt GENE:RAL MDVAYCR iN TEE Paeron OF COGL IN LEEDS.-| Thwe Leeds codl mer'chants advance the price of all house coal from to-day is. Sd. per ton, and engine coal, slack, and smudge is. per ton. THE TowN CLmsnrrCIi flnwrsBuRY-A special committee of the Towvn CoLuncil of Bewabury, appointed for the purpose of saleeting candidates from the large number of applicants for the position of ...

... SIR J. T. D. LLEWELYN, BART. THE Conservatives will not be the only inhabitants of Wales to promptly and cor- dially congratulate Mr J. T. DILLWYN LLEWELYN, of Penllergare, on his newly- acquired and duly-gazetted distinction. His promotion to the rank of a baronet is a well-earned honour. He is one of the most popular of Welsh squires. While many of them have been content to study only their ...

... 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, ...

... LATEST LoNDo News* [fROU OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] LoXDn6i, Tuesday night. B The N Nintteenth Century for January k Certainly gives ample evidence that intellectual labour does not kill. Here is Mr Gladstone, pot the octogenarian, indulging in reminiscences of Reg the Melbourne Government with a vigour which might befit his grandson. Here is Earl Grey, ow seven years his senior, plunging ...

... U1a tintj ' Mr Gioachsi, in his recent letter -on the recoinage wh M`r of likht gold and other currency questions, denied iAnc did that any carsriliy of the half-savsreiizn, of which com- Bull 00 plaint has been mrode, was due to the stoppage of its Ont ,n,. issue in the interests of bi-inetalfliarm. As a sciatter of Pic nke fact, it has been and is being issued, and so far an our galt Ox ...

... 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. ...

... i is l i,, ,, f , i . .! i . ' a; 1 I I c e,]A;-tq i-j- -f74-jg ?L- .1 1, - ' '-? '- th ' STATK OFi- .5', NATIONALItS ANI)MiQ-UXEEN ; ' ' On 8aturday Xvenln5 EMr,8i extsgM.P.;Lord Mayor of Dublin, gaie a -hfiewell blbqiitee, '+bich was attenden by a large number of the Irish Parliamentary party and citizens generally. In proposing the toast of the Queen, he said they took no sslfi~h, and ...

... Phinel. and Ann Boden, husband and wi, were charged before the Ironbridge magistrat yesterday, with cruelty to a boy, the son of first-named defendant. from the evidence appeared that the child bad only two meals day, these consisting of bread-and-drippinf He seldom hjyg anything to drink, and it was stated was frequently illusc without any provocation. Though nearly fou years eld he only ...

... THREE Cardiff School Board candidates have united in one address to the ratepayers. These are the Revs G. A. JONES and F. J. BECK, and Dr TREHARNE. It is somewhat singular that while they promise to attend to six groups of duties, they make no promise whatever to do the work specially allotted to them under the Elementary Education Acts. They make no allusion to reading, writing, arithmetic, ...