... A FEARFUL EAST-END CALAMITY. FOREST GATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL DESTROYED. TWENTY-SIX CHILDREN SUFFOCATED. The first day of the New Year will unfortunately ever be remembered in the annals of calamity. Hardly had the inerry pealing of the bells ceased this morning when death overtoo, twenty-six inmates of the Forest Gate Pauper School, Essex, with appalling suddenness. They were asphyxiated by ...

... -BRAZIL. THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS. t f~aox. QVuI MPM 4O WOWDZ- OPORNTO, TMDAY, . Nuudreds o£ ?? -o conidolence have ss reached Dom Pedro frsw EuroPe and Ameri. 3. Eminent Eaglshmen Are well reprsented, and R notwithatanding the usytimes the Gladstone ie family are going th ough, an echo of tha words ce6 of sympathy epekew. at kawarden has sracbed as, Oporto. Qu1 Ter Voia's ifectionate ?? iE hs ...

... TIE WINERS' STRIKES. IFROM tOUR CO1RESPONDIT.) 33RUSSEL9, TuBmAY NImx. . I went to-day to 'the scene of the strike. No much scene has ever been seen here. There are no deiuoustratlons,'lnoquarrels, no seeues of dis- i -order; everywhere men and women moving about calmly. The strikers I interrogated an- I swered that they had' no confidence in the I enployers' promises. We Lave been de- ceived ...

... OCCASIONAL NOTES, The most notable thingabout the list of New Year's Honours is what it does not contain, A few more or less eminent men are advanced a stage in 1 honour, and several mdre or less not eminent men are put on the first rung of the ladder. Bat the one man who has really made himself illustrious during the year and has given distinction to the time is passed over. The fountain of ...

... (nOX OUR CeORWSlONDM4T.) i PARTS, TuaSVIT N1e6. D Prices wnre heavy todiy, Brazilian stocks, E At however, forming an exception. At the last fortnightly o !1 0 settlement these made a rebound from the buying in to t realise profits, but gave way aiterwards, and the rise p to-day may not be more durable. The advance in the d t Bank of England rate and advices of dear money 8 d everywhere ...

... THE GREAT. MreDO e; . - - -m - b b A VIST TO THE PARIS OSPITALS. r e1O3 Oul CORBO1gZT8l .a -l.- - P 11E5 ? NIOVf. a Mixiiptr of the Thterir. -It gives & hitr 3of slihe difern lppe eiemc, e~o of whc heladimit8 w fa gi event of msd t lport ofce nor does he wonder, at the xcitement to ]i othe~presbt ep~chas given rise, it hmg e inaded in a fewr-ays all the capitib oflgurope> and disoraaued ai ...

... PLYNOGTHM TussoAY Nisir. HATLO. DowN . A¢. G.-The Royal Adelaide, an old line-of-battle sl;; 1i -1 done duty as flagship at Devonport for nearly was paidoft to-dayat Devonportt nd to-r .. 'placed a the ?? of AdSirair ?? ?? ' '4 commander-la-ebief at Devonport by C-e .r,. :- e. Thea oyal ide- laide wras first cor .- - ?? at Devonport, as fi bacl; sAsprilB. 1- .1 'ergood wasthe Port Admiral, ...

... IRELAND, ?? ( X OUR CORRESPOND=.T) IM DUBLIN, Tu3AY Y N1#XT. The annual congress of the teachers of the National Board of Education was opened in Dublin to-day, there being a very large attendance of delegates from all parts of the cotu-try.-r. Philip Woard, the outgoing President, delivered his anneal address. In I Ireland-unlike any other count1y in the world-taxes i for educational purposes ...

... WATCH ~I.leTv OEBYICES, The praclice of seein$ the Ol Year .out and 1 the New -eir: in amongst the religions bies of the n .,nlimrithl7 11 watch or midnisht service has WbWoaQo T597 peraln i a55 U ijs p, tu W.1 T wa-e., tho vnoua obzurbea~wero attended bz n thousands of porsdns. Most of the services -bein da bot hal-piact tan or eleven. aid eztend 'ust into t Neiaw Year. Their origin is to bhe ...

... THE BURIAL OF ROBERT BROWN ING. o r vr56;SOENE I~ WEST- at 113 At a few -minutes before eleven o'clock yester- ac das* tle fuueral procession left 29, De Vere- A gardens, Kensingtol. Some hundreds of Spec S tatorsstood nearthe dooria'y-roanyof them D dressed in mourning, a few earrying branches D of evergeens-as the cofin of polished oal w sieerged With its bearers. F ROBERT BROWNING, h EBomc ...

... SIR C. RUSSEL AND TE LIBERAL -1 PROGRAMME. I I + .i A a6public -meeting was held at Kings- 6 1 woo~d, nea.r Reigate, last. niqht, in support of the L.~ newly-selected Liberal candidate, Mr. ?? E. Barnes, for the Reigato Division. The chair was taken by Mr. 8 Bnrns. and 'amongpst those present were Sir Charles Russell, Q.C., M.P., Lord Monkewell, and the prin- 9. cipal Literlas 6f thes district ...

... THE COUAT. OSBOBE, Dro. 31. it The Queen went out this morning attendei a by-the Dowager Lady ChurclL. tl The Queen is expected to reside in the Isle of Wight 'I tll .about the.middle of February, when the Courtwill S remove from Osborne to Windsor Castli. c0 The Prince.of Wales ge lhis Royal and other guets t a good day's cover shooting yesterday. The Princess I of Wales, accompanied by the ...