... SUSPEED OUTRAGE. NARROW ESCAPfl A Dublin correspondent telegrapbed yesterday lei -AD explosion, the -cause of which has not yet in been ascertain4 occurrd this afternoon in the Finance Department of Dublin Castle. The 1r room is situate under the Privy Cohuoil Chai- l ber, and its only usual occupant is Mr. Cullinsa, A who to-day fortunately happened to ba out when th the explosion took place. ...

... 11 TamRSDAY NIGHT.-During the past 24 Lcu.- it shallow disturbances have travelled etastar.s eacross cur ieland8. ?? beavv rain *-%ep ig England and a fresh westeriv gale in theo Cha=nnl e These depressions are now rimsng a av t) the id eastwar:1. and the barcnmeter is t-ie: g ag lU id witn a tendency for the Avind to sibft sOn. e, wbat to the north. with cvuoer Weather. }1. Temperature was ...

... ALW ML NEWS. en The following mails we despatched from Liver. ee- pool this day:- lea To Austria and Germsny by early night mail, are via Ostend (ensuring rapid delivery at Vienna4 Berlin, ?? Latest posting, ?? 10 40 anm. eat with id. late fee, Lima-street Station, 11 3a. wed daily. ;he To France, Belgium, and the Continent of ea Europe (London night mail).-Boxclose, ?? 115 p.m. With Ad. late ...

... 54 & 56 VICTORlA, hf is The legislative 98aion of the year bezinning in oi the autumn of loS0 was ore of a protracted t. 4:b.raCtd8r ; v-et 76 public statutes-all nearly of a ,ncial and ?? character-are left behind o as the only niementos of its exiitencc?. 31any of a3 these measures are mere fraguientary extousiions sc e. forner statutes, and none furnish any cl *ttempu at consolidation, ...

... . 1 - IfJ The Services of the lifeboate of the Royal 1el ?? National Lifeboat Institution were very constantly la requisitioned in 1891, and were particularly useful at re' during the disastrous hurricanes and gales of rtf aMarch, October, and November. The total r0 ~knumber of haunches on Service in the year was 334*, al id resulting in the saving of the lives of 551 persons ; ri ofmany of ...

... THE INFLUEKNZA EIIDEMC. I The ordinary weekly meeting of the Health C Committee of the Liverpool Corporatien was held yesterday, at the Municipal-offices, Mr. J. B. mth presiding. There were ao resent : er r. Bligh, Campbell, COOkSOn Sorgan, : Menlove, Tagger; and Brownhifl.-In reply to I 3the Chairman, D~r. TAYLOR said that a great manyr a. people had been suffering froma colds, and four ofE ...

... )CHRISTMAS DINNER TO AGED I POORP AT ST. GEORGES HALL.. I he The annual dinner to the aged and deserving I poor of all denominations took place yesterday ot afternoon, at St. George's HalL. Some 8o0 poor I at of both sexes, varying ia age from about 50 to 88, es the average being about 67, sat down. There was sy a large attendance of voluntary workers, who ] n- served the dinners as prepared ...

... I ltrpool Wsttuvgo SALUS POPULI LEM SUPREIA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1892. 0-,- l0- The Exchequer returns for the nine months ended yesterday show that 'the total revennnue mA1,fpr1 tA PAIR 7iV; 001 - total revenue amounted to 265,703,921, as compared with £65,137,137 in the corre-V sponding period of last year, showing an e increase during the past nine months of £646,784. V V Among the Queen's ...

... THE ICE .ATAL1'TlES AT ST. HELENS. AN UNPROTECTED POND. Yeaterday, Mr. S. Brighouse, county ooroner, p held an inquest at the Rainford Hotel, Parr, St. 1 Helens, touching the deaths of Robert Johnson, g 18 years cf age, of 112, Parr Stocks-road, and t' John Wood, eleven years old, son of John a Wood, labourer, 114, Parr Stooks-road, who a I -were drowrned whilst skating on a pond near t a ...

... I I gI THE COURT, & ? OsaosRN, TauvsDsey.-The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accomp.nied by Princess Beaitrice and Princess 'Victoria of Sobleewig- tiolstain. HEer ajeat received early this morn- ing, with great grie, tbe sad news of the comparatively sudden death of herdar nephew Prinrce Victor of Hohenlohe, second son of the Queen's half-sister, the lite Princess of Hobenlohe - ...

... GALE IN THE CHANYIEL. aLOSS OF A LIVERPOOL BARQUE, I STATEMENTS BY OFFICERS. .e, 5 ,f ?? morning3 men, including Captain o F. C. Chapman and the crew of the Liverpool it barque Warwickshire, with 16 men, mostly fisher- f men from Rye and Dungenes3. were received aw the Dover National Sailers' Home. The rescue s from the Warwickshire was effected in a ver3 y rough sea, it blowing a gale from ...

... I a [THROUGH REUTERS AGENCY.] NEW RUSSIAN RAILWAY LOAN. S ST. PETEBSBurc, TauRSDAY.-It is stated that b the Moscow-Kazan Railway Company is about to p issue 4 per cent, bonds to the amount of 28,5C00,000 j credit roubles. The operation will be carried out by Russian banks. The most favourable tender is that made by the Trade Bank of Mosaow, at 86 n per cent. DEATH 0\ GENERAL GARCIA , S ANToNio ...