... l BEER DRINKING IN FRANCE AND | IA GERMANY. . 3 . _ .. - - ?? .The ?? consumption of alcoholic beve- ple ragesvaries largely r diffrent French towns. 0x15 In'respedt-of.vines aoider* a nd-beers, saiys the' succ Ftrench Bullttiwd'Agnictzurt, these inequalities - are the natriral resist of'the branch of the pro- thro duction special to each. country. With regard rent to alcohol, although' it is ...

... The announcement in the daily papers that the Queen will launch the Royal Sovereign and the Centaur at Portsmouth on Friday, February 27, coming over from Osborne for the purpose, is a nonsensical fabrication. The Queen is to leave Osborne for Windsor on Tuesday, :February 17, according to present arrangements; and, after a residence of four weeks at the Castle, her Majesty will start for ...

... G REAT FAmpNG OFF N Tin TR&FFIO RECEIPTS, THE MEN WELL SUPPLIED WITHE FUND.~ . CAME COn CcnacxO2:D:NTe'.) - ~EDnneanson, Wednesday Night. Judging from the reports whici have beau received from the west, EdInburgh nowe seems to be the stronghold of the railway strikers. The concision of affairs in Edin.. burgh to-dlay was niot s-s sotidfactery as the railway officials anticipated. ...

... . BEIND -THE SCENES IN PARLIAMENT. SOME HORRIBLE REVELATIONS.: BY MR. L. J. JENNINGS, M.P. ONE Of the most.readable articles in the January Reviews is that in the Contemporarj, wherein Mr. Jennings gives us a peep behind the scenes in'Parliament. W. e subjoin some of his horrible revelations, as well as a few of his more appreciative remarks:- THE WICKED LAWYERS. There is a large class which ...

... TEIE IRISH PARTY SPLIT. THE BOULOGNE CONFERENCE. [Preess Assciio Special Telgrm. Bovosss, December 51 (Alternoon).-When the last o message was despatched yesterday evening trans- amitting to London the communication; regarding the P meeting between Mr. Parnell and Mr. OTrien, the impression here was that the conference had failed to a bring about a reconciliation between the two Irish e ...

... o riGSS 1'0 CO~tRESPJONDENIIS.-dZiit leters intnded .fs J t -weet i63 tL ateeomeiwt y t name cr4 ?? of tine tlit ?? ,saZersssnrtSy or ?? totfor the infornation: gfi~nr- ?? ats rs &S tO q'testnns iare not gimn in the, e-re'f -day rtirez, Ue qeedstisire so wp ette tbewersfosei -ftc -r, 155t'Q tni~ to 50012? teA informat~ion AS >r Wie, T G . T.T-We do not kcoow the dazta g; r -Nelson's Monument ...

... LIFEBOAT SERVICES i -1890. | .I flthf 1; f^ no -h~a -Vt-l a ?? t i - The lifbash of thne Rloyal Naitional Lifeboat. I -IInstitution have done exce1an'llva ork 4uring Iani the pat yea~r rtsulting in the~rescuefrom 'the thuo Iperi ofdath by drowvning--and in the majo-' Arn rity of instances from death ilkiif-of ,as many bee a.as 547 persons. The details'of thesjervicee are dini as follows :- ...

... TMR. INDIAN RISING. ANOTHIR BATTLXE . rulObUGB DENZe'S AGSOCT.] 'Purs Exnr~o Wzonsssna.-Genet'5 Brooks has receivd intelligeliceof fighting at ?? Mission at Clay Creek, in which six men ot the , 7th Cavalry Regiment were killed and many in others wounded. The first- intelligence of a die- in turbance at the isiesion Btatin arrived yestetday, wf yhen a oourier repoed in' camp that the, mission ...

... A Cardiff correspondent states that the river Taff was frozen over yesterday, add that skating was poseible, There have been only two winters in receat years when the frost has been severe enough to pro- duce this reault-namely, in 185 a and 1881, O wing ton ?? which commenced at Queens D a town at midnight on T aesday, the White Starsteamner a Majestio, from N eow York, and the Allan liner t ...

... SINGULAR INTCI)ENT AT A LIVERPOOL EXECUTION. We reported yesterday the execution of McDonald, the Bolton murderer, at Kirkdale prison. One of the Liverpool papers, in describing the ghastly business. says :-Shortly before half-past seven Berry, who had previously seen that everything was right for the per- formance of his task at the scaffold, camo to the warders' room, where two Liverpool ...

... NEW YEAR IHONOURS. The Queen hass conferred the dignity of a peerage of the United Kingdom on the Right Hon. Sir Francis Sandford, ?? and Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, Bart. Her Majesty h also conferred the dignity of a karonetoy of the United Kingdom upon the following: -The Right Hon. Sir Hercules Robinson, G.CB., Ur Thomas Brooks, of Rawtenstall, and Mr Richard Quaii, MD., FR.S, The Queen has ...

... IT G rTHLERITNG IN ST. I ! - ?? i-;Cll'URCITYA TM I If rvxt - ear ti'c ,tinm oirties of St. Panlts i.A.tle.i .;t-et J Oi~disctu]tiii tihe Lidniglt '0-1 lit^,ia cv- ?? of d'ioCOnracline' fhe lci~td or grt'ric tr'-ilt itss-em'ei1d there lait niet, nl ')Iy ;e: .;L g' U!7Itl much, and possiily s-ovle ?? ?? It b atl'tcd. it.c )1kcd two or tbree ycnt a:-u CaS ?? tlins wias guiu g tO be : ,iiOtC}'l' ...