... FOURTEI .TIOX. A BELGIAN ROYAL PALACE BURNED. A LADY'S MAID BURNED TO DEATH. A fire broke out at a quarter-past two yesterday afternoon at the Royal Castle of Laeken. When the first news reached Brusseis, the Eing, and Queen were holding the New Year's Reception at the Palace, but the ceremony was immediately suspended, and her Majesty le't at once for tle scene of the disaster, where she ...

... TO-DAYS TITTLE TATTLE, Professor Stuart, I am sorry to hear, is not likely to be Professor Stuart mnuch longer. His marriage, which will take place in the course of next session, will lead to his living in London, and his living in London will probably lead to his giving up his professorship at Cambridge. Once settled in London, he will throw himself even more energetically than heretofore ...

... !PD4STROIIS FXE -4T FOREST-GATE INDUSTRIAI SCHOOLS I : II:- : h26 oGaeN SUFhOClThe. Within a few minutes of the birth of the New ?? wety-six boys died from safocation. at the Foresti-gate Industrial Schools. They nowY lie side by side, wrapped in, feecy white blankets, upon the floor of the infirmary, with numbers marked in big figures, or the n aes ori chled over -the ianwimate heaps ass to ...

... IsUndergRound1 I . a ta THis mnonth's nuibe of Goo ?? tiole by Professor Rw deoipt, in clear and sinmple language, some very curious discoveries made by binself and Dr. THORPE. In the course of their magnetic survey of the United Kingdom they noticed several irrega- larities, the cause of wvhich was not at first at all obvious. They found that the coinpwss, instead of pointing further to the ...

... TEE~ ?U1F2SE 0RTg8 TH9, QATIGE QUp (TNEMQVO IMBITE'S AGANiO.) LISBON, JAX. 1. The Cortes will be opened to-morrow by -Ii'i Crilos in person, bz4 tle bamber of Dqpoe will iot be fir~isay eonstited till th end of the monlth. The questitns tho be raised by the O~ppositiozR repadg the irdernol anld c6onial policy of the p~veluaetwillI not Copie rn gor ?? til the bp ig of Februr. GIBRALTAR, JW. I. ...

... BROWNING'S PIED PIPERP' To ire EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAzETTE, SIR,-A good many of your readers may be interested in knowing that the account often given of R. Browning having added the Pied Piper at the last moment, to make up enough copy for a number of Befts and Pomegranates, is strictly true. I possess the three first proofsofsthat (the third) number. The first ends with the lines ...

... ANARCHY IN ARMBNIA, PROPOSED EMIGRATIQN To PERSIA (ToHt OUGn RcUTes Th GRElNT CONSTA~nTIOPLE. DuO0. 3t., The Armenian inhabitants of the Alhasgi District -lately despatohed a- deputation to Persia, asking for permission to emigrate to Persian territory, as they could no longer cudura the oppression of the Turks in that dis- trict. Tho Persian Government assured them in reply that they would be ...

... VZBOELS EYNRE DNWARDA6 LONDON CUSTOM HOUSE. ian. 1.-Azalea, Antwemp, Union Tr., Sawer, MeaAand Co.; Minerva, s, Hamburg, T.D., Debson; Wega, s, 11am- burg, St. K.D., Cmraen and Co.; -Anee, s, Danzig, ?? Bremer, Bennett, and Bremner' Mabel, sRoUen, Coton'sWf., Burnett; Swift, s, Osteud, Bt. K.D., G.6.NMo. C Adler, a, Bremen, -St. KID Ph1) ?? and Grayes; Chritan IX. s, Komi serg, M.D., Ialey and ...

... OCCASIONAL NOTESJ Who is to be blamed ? is the question asked by the natural man after every calamity. The natural man is generally justified in his demand, and finds somewhere that some one blundered. But at the terrible calamity at Forest Gate every one seems to have done his duty. The managers had provided all the appliances,'the superintendent and officers behaved like heroes. But ...

... NAVTAL A-ND MILITARY. . - : POTMU ,.A9 . L The Naval CoCamndwer-in.Chief at Portesouth [Admiral Sir J. E. Co=me) ba received frp- the IID * Ybt Pi to rthepl e t oldure heteo l4euienit ae of thp Tb~~apezoi,=xt-aa bttleexipsed from SpW aedtowday for ?? o y ernoce ay faip 6J? Tira Si 4. inns, on te e ofwhich AMMUW:e cPPOUyUMM, :XDN.g I-COMO. The Black Priace, 2g, bipt~a' ws t9-day pgt ...

... IE NAVAL AN MILITARY POWERS IN 1889-90. el BY I The relative strength of the five Great Naval .powers of Europe has not much altered during the year 1889. The adoptiou by Great Britain ;fa nW programme of naval construction has xiot yet had time to produce its effect; and although during the peat twelve months we, lbave aoinpleted for sea a considerable number of battleships, armoured cruisers ...

... of! I : er CGI3RANY AND THI PORTE.. to h3IER 3 ount consr~s~yr.)1 her' BEULIN, WM X JNrer. it The telegr4m of your Constantinople Corre- . ed spondent to the effect that the articles in the A en Allgemeine Zeitlung about Armenia and the OY Youssa Boy trial had made a; deep inmpresou ; ie Upon the Porte ps been roproduce 'in §ome German papers. Abkout a fortnight ago, when a I Moussa Bey was ...