... .JDAL213L:S 'rLEE&M8.J LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. A firm tendency has been maintained In the mining market to-day, although bualuess has not been of a very satisfactory character. ,In the South African market prices have been inclined to move upwards, but there has been no feature of import- ance. Nourse lDeep have advanced 1, Princess Estate 3-16, Woibuter j, and advances of 1-16 are shown in ...

... g1,nr iJ 3,Utarp zSabte* iiTip Crxcnruxj'ONr OF PHILmP STRONG. By Charles A. Sheldon. (London: The Sunday School Union.) Tile demand of the pulpit in our age, writes Mr Vincent in his interesting Introduction to this I volume, is the power to set forth by words well- I chosen, and by attractive parables which give truth I in concrete form, the possibilities of Individual and social life. ...

... Fighting in Nigeria. .I _~ The Sierra Leone Expedition. [Press Association Foreign SpeciaL] LIvERPOOL, JANUAiRY 1. The mail steamer Olenda, of the Elder-Dempster Line, from West Africa, docked here this morning and landed the following invalids from the Niger Lieut, E. M. Townend and 'Messrs Paul, Cook, Fry, and Motts, the last named three being from H.M. gunboat Heron and Mr Paul from the ...

... I. . . .. - -_--. . .S -. a_ - fTI T At the meeting of the Executive Committee, Mr .. .Grigg in the chair, the following resolution was moved by Mr C. Vaughian, seconded by Mr IV. Thompson, and carriod:-That this committee is pleased to hear that Mr Chandler :ias given notice that it is his intention to move at the next Council meeting that it is desirable that representatives of the press ...

... AYIvsllRYnv DIVISIoN.-A telegram was received in Ay]esbury on Saturday by the secretary of the Liberal Association from Mr Mackay Green, George street, Edinburgh, offering to contest the vacant Parliamentary seat in the Liberal interest if his ex- penses were paid. Mr Leopold Rothschild will pre- side at at Unionist dinner to-morrow, when Mr P. Flannery, Mi.P,, and \Ir Coningsby Disraeli, M.P. ...

... : Af____ of ZriotoI. The Bishop has appointed the rev A. C. C. Anstey, 'vlear of St. John, Redland, and the Rev J. E. Brenan, 'Vicar of Emmanuel, Clifton, to honorary canonries in EristolCCathedral. The dead old year, gathered to its forbears, is gone, adding another notch to the fast closing score of the nineteenth century, and gay young 1899, whose very title suggests jingling rhyme, already ...

... -.votrict ? RMOO-I naes I - in In PORTBURY. it is On Thursday evening a ball was held at the club- rcom In aid of the funds of the Porthury and that E 'alland Club. It was attended by about 30 sdbmbers DUi Of and friends. Dancing was kept up till about 2 a.us. Iding Mr Picton played at the flaOn and Mr L. Sintpkis s thte assisted wvth the Cornet and Mr Davis with the a55 f a AX13RIDGE. * safe ...

... * eLterW0 to t1be (bfttOl .- c - 1tt Al Letters must be astoMapalnted by the nanats and addresses of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but 'or the satisiaction of the Edit6r. We do not hold ourselves responsible for any of the opinions expressed by correspondents. We cannot undertake to return rejected communications. Celrrespnndents must write on one side of the paper only. ...

... PARIS, SATVRDAY EtENINO. The settlement was not effeoted under the best of conditions, and, added to the large number of sales, caused a general drop all round, except In Rio Tinto, ,which further advanced from 804f to 815f. Heavy contango rates were demanded for French BeRtes, and money fetched from 4j- to 6 per cent., according to ciroumstances. SpanishExteriorwere very heavy at first, but ...

... I tey, snu, iries The Prime Minister's List. one, [Press Assioclation Telegram.] the very the We are authorised to state that the Queen has put conferred the following New Year honours:- 'n a y or VISCOUNTY. l1er Majesty has ereated Lord Cromer a Viscount of the Ulnited Kingdom. e of PERR ...

... '; Dr Bourne, Bishop of Southwark, Is to leave this week for Rome, and will probably remain there for n the Easter festivities. d The vacant Roman Catholic bishopric of Aberdeen h has been conferred on Mgr. Chisholm, rector of e 'Blalrs College. A Sunday was the Sacerdotal Diamond Jubilee of )f Pope Leo XIII, his Holiness having been ordained e priest on the Feast of the Cironmclsion, 1838. Oa ...

... The following report will be presented at tho annual meeting of the Bristol Dispensary on Friday, the 13th January -The committee have pleasure ia reporting that the work of th e institution has been carried on to their entiro satisfaction. They are | pleased to state that the branch dispensary in I Bedminster was opened on the 1s t of December, 1697, and has proved a great success, the relIef ...