... A GLASGOW SHIP ASHORE. Dovwit, SvzcAv.-Very violent weather was again experienced yesterday, and the services were much interrupted. A heavy gale from the S.5.A. sprang up in the morning, and there was a. high sea in the channel. This makes practically a week of successive heavy gales, the storms being all from the same direction. Many vessels which had been lying in the Downs for shelter took ...

... REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. DEPARTURE OF LORD ELGIN FROM LN D I A. ADDRESS FROM MOHAMMEDANI SOCIETIES. CAICUTTA, Saturday. The representatives of several Mohammedan societies to-day paid a farewell visit.to Lord Elgin and presented an address, thanking his Excellency for his efforts in advancing the prosperity of the country. In his reply, Lord Elgin said he be- lieved the loyal Mohamraedasis of India ...

... 3HARITABL- BIBQUTSVS- IN 1898. - I . w . REMARKABLE LO0NGEVITY OF. THE TESTATOBS. Under wills reported during the year 1898 there have been bequests for charitable, religioIm, and; educational purposes to the amount of between, £1,403,000 and. £1,500,000., which is. considerably I above the -avenage of the-ten years previous to 1897. In. that year the total was about £2,000,000, or, 'if Lady ...

... . PRIME MINISTER'S LIST. The Press Association is authorised to state thati the Queen has been pleased to confer the following New Year honours c 8 i VaSCOUNTY. Her MNajesty has created Lord Cromer a viscount of the CUnited Kingdom. FlIEY.AGES. The Queen has further been pleased to confer the dignity of a peerage upon each of the following:- 'The Right HonourabD- Sit Philip Currie, ?? Sir ...

... _ ?? The following is a synopsis of the births ana deaths registered during the week ended December 24 (exclusive of deaths in public institutions of sons ?? from oilier districts):- Belfast ?? . Dublin . ?? Limerick ?? Londonderry ?? Waterford ?? Galway ?? ?? Dewry ?? Dundaik ?? Lisburn ?? ?? ?? Kilkenny ?? ?? Sligo.. ?? Tralee ?? Ballymena ?? INeswtownards ?? Queenstown ?? Carrickfergus ?? ...

... The 1st of January this year falling upon a, Sun- daty, its observance has been solely of a ie- ligious character. The good resolutions with which most people commence the vear have had an excellent start, although it is to be feared i'eat many of them -will perish miserably at an carly stage of their career, or incontinently droop and die from congenital weakness. Howe-ere, -whether they are ...

... 'OUR LONDOIN LETTER. BY OUR PRIVATE WI. BXAST Nrws-LETER O(Imes. 435. STAND, W.C., SUNDAY NIGHT. The Honours List. Tie list of New Year honours, issued at a late hour to-night, will, generally spesaking, afford considerable satisfaction both in Great Britain and Ireland, because in almost every case the dis- tinctiois have been well deserved. Four new peers are ?? Philip Cume, ?? our ...

... COURT ANI FASHION. THE COURT. OsBoaNsE, SATURDAY.-The Empress Frederick, ittended by Countess Perponcber, Sir Fleetwood Edwards, and Sir John Ml-Keill, went to Ports- mouth yesterday morning, on board H.M.Y. I Alberta (Rere-Admiral Fullerton), and was re- ceived at tho Dockvard bv Admiral Sir Michael Culme Seymour, Bart., Cononander-iu-Uhief at Portsmouth, The Empress drove to St. AMary's ...

... A-CMLERATION OF MAIL S ERVIE FROM ' IRELAND TO SC.AND. An important acceleration of the service from Ireland to Scotland via Belfast and Ardrossan in connection with Messrs. Burns' Royal mail steamers has just -been inaugurated, which eieru- 4plifies in a remarkable manner the facilities Ior travelling which the public have at the present time. Ow ing to Messrs. Burns having now placed their ...

... ?? STrAVIDArT' )BTrSVAI,5T8 B1 S r&&N D. XeTrT OsiviciAx, DoNEG.41 PLACE. A.-lnoI News-IZerf Offce, -Mo 26 £xles. ZiN~cd. 2S~r&I -9 .. (_ gk9u.1 N.W. I W.-. W. E. Variahbl tA: ?? :5 5 -* O.cted lines indiv-ate beiaht of barometeratnoon,blc; ineR at midnight. Initial letters sbow direction of wind. N ercury falls ior rain, with S.W., S.E., and W. winds-if ,1eidly,heavy storros iislowl3 ...

... DasLsx, SuNDAY NeohT. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess Cadogan, with a large party.from the Viceregal Lodge, will be present at Baidoyle Races to-morrow. The Lord Mayor attended mass in State to-day, and afterwards entertained Archbishop Walsh and a large company to luncheon in the Mansion House. Watab-night services were held in several places of worship of the Church of ...

... TIRE LATE REV. DE. NILLIANiSONo PULPIT REFERENCES. In many of the churches yesterday sympathetic references -were made to the lamented death of Rev. Dr. Williamson. In Fisherwick Place Church, the pulpit and galleries of which were deeply draped in black, Rev. A. J. Wilson, Malobe, at the morning service, at the request of the bereaved family, selecting as 'his test John's Gospel, chapter xi., ...