... THlE NEW YEAR. 'The New Year ivas ushered in yesterday Morning under the 'nost fao Ourablie auspices as regards v. e~tii-i L'tl anl' Wa'S ci isp and clear, and as the Ills *l ou rt the old %nd rang in the new,' in rite itarli ::t uightal slightl1oc0r1of snowflakes fell, wlineh siirouded the city in a thin covering of is hict. ihc streets were crowded with merrv- leiiko-i aind as the clock ...

... CHARITABLE BEQUTESTS AND DONATIONS FOR 1892. The ' Charity Record, Hospital Times, &c., says -The year now closing has been distinguished hy some very liberal bequests for the relief of the sick and poor, and the facts connected .with some of thle most important bequests and donations are of public interest. In addition to those we specify large sumns have been devoted to missinns and to ...

... H M EALY, X.P., at NEWCASTLES I Yesterday afternoon the 21st anniversary of the Irish Literary Institute in Newcastle was oele- brated by a public meeting, held in the Granger Theatre. Mr Bernard M'Anulty, head of the Irish party in Newcastle, presided, and 'was supported by Mr T. M. Healy, M.P.; Mr Charles Diamond, M.P.; and Mr John Barry, M.P., who were all formerly members of the institute. ...

... Arthur P. Crouch has an interesting article in the January number of Blackwood' from which we take the following extracts:-Colonel, or rather General Dodds, as he has now been created, was born at St Louis, and has negro blood in his veins. He has conducted several successful wars with native tribes on the borders of Senegal and Sene- gambia, and just before the present campaign was ...

... tTE TM BRIA ' SAFIEM ARIVLTNEW1 .ORK. 'FULL DETAL OF 0EVENTFUL VOYAGE. STAMMENTS BY CAPTAIN' AND PASSENGERS. (rsLrGFAX PROK OCSAL OOBEaSPONDUT.) New York, 'December 31. The reports brought yesterday by the- steamer Mahanset had' the- natural effect of greatly relieving the public anxiety as to the safety of the overdue Cunarder Jmbria; but a considerable ,am'ountof uneasiness re- inain'ed, the ...

... OUT WARD. The faiewlitt awe the dates on which foreig mails will ibe dseattchod friem Glasgow, 2s well as the hour when the bex closes at the head office:- Movdam3January t-Egypt, by Italian packet-6.3 - 'Lishon, Senegal. Rio Janeiro. Monte Video, and Bueeo. AMe, by French packet-9530 re.g I esday3, Jauary. 3. -Lisbon. Monte Video. Buenos Anres, chili, Bolivia, 'and Pert, vie Livcrpeeol-S.30 P ...

... THE I .ESUIIS. Father Martino, thiI!1:-- peeeI I LUeteral of thle Je~suts, is the fifth Spaiard who hts been chiosen chief of that, society which hais hn~I'u compared to at sword whose hilt is at Rome and whose poinrr is everywhere, Ilie is tic 'dithi inrlo t It JesItsII -S. Of other-1 IlREioiiali ties, I I gennials have been Italians, three Bloliaus, One Ct.rinaii. one Pole, one Biohermian, ...

... THE CLERKEXWELL OUTRAGE. Two men, named Burke and Casey, had been arrested in London on a charge of being Fenians; they were imprisoned under a remand in tile Clerkenwell House of Detention. This ptison had an exercising-ground within its walls, and at a fixed hour in the afernoon the prisoners were exer- cised there. The wvall of the exercising-ground ran along Corporation Lane ; it was about ...

... 0 ; 5, ; 0 i;BGD Oman~5 15.z A.MT. TH 3GEgRMAN MINES' STRIKE --(Sr&N-DARD TELEGRAM.) .Berlin, January i, Night. The number of men on strike in the Saar district amounted yesterday evening to -eighteen thousand-that is three-fifths. of QIl the miners there. Meetings of miners are toi be held to-morrow to consider what is to, be done. Great excitement continues to prevail among the miuers, ...

... THE LORD MAYOR ffOF ?? LONDON IN DUBLIN. - RELIGIOUS CEREMONIAL AND / : t0; 0 BANQUET. The Lord Mayor of London wpas present in Dublin yesterday,' and trook ?? in the 'ceremonial associated with New-Year's Day in the city of Dublin. It is-customary for the Lord Mayor and Roman Catholic members of the Corporation to attend Mass in the Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street. The Lord Mayor of London, ...

... THE N3EW' -: I; II GLASGOW. The New Year was brought in fI Glasg with the customary observances.L Cold though- the weather was on Saturday evening, the lead- ing thoroughfares of the city were-crowded with people, many thousands of. whom congre- -gated in the vicinity of the Talbooth Steeple after eleven o'clock to hear the -old yearnrung out and the new year rung. in. For a time it seemed ...

... I Dir`.-g the past year the total number of c.:-rictu'atcd students was 3208. Of this total, 151 (including 70 women students, who are now ?? .i(ted under the new Ordinance to the Arts classes) were enrolled in the F-acuilty of Arts, 82 in tire Faculty of Divinity, 460 in the Faculty of Law, and 1715 in the Faculty of Medicine. Of the srudt-nts oi medicine, 742 (or failly 43 per cent.)I ...