... LONDON CORRISPONDENCE. 6- (FROM OUR OWN CQRRESPONPENT) (BY SPECIAL WINK.) London, lkonday Morning. At the outset of this war the Foreign Miili- tary Attaches were all hurrying to join the British forcs. Since the opening of the war, .however, the tide of interest has changed, and now they are joining the Boer side. The office of a military attache is to see how the thing is done, and on that ...

... Mr Milo Burke, D L, -has resigned 'the office of Director of the National Bank, as, although in exoedlent health, he felt the burden of eon- stant jourmeyis to Iondwn too heavy. His col- leagues, in accepting Mr Burke's resignation, have placed on record their strong sense of regre: at losing him on their Board. Thie ev:ll t be shared by all connected with the Bank. Mr r Burke performed the ...

... i The nomination of candidates to fill the 15 vacancies in the Municipa' Council caused bh r the annual retirement of Councillors wi-.1 takes place on January 5th. at the City Hall. lbe ,f0olloWvDr COU11CIlors retire:. Arrlin Quay-CouneiEor Wm Coffey. Inns Quay-Clouncillor T J O'Neill. Fitzwilliam Ward-Councilior Patrick WV Gorrigan. Mansion House-'.ouncil'or PhilipLittle. AMercihants' Quay ...

... 'A BA.NDON DOCTOR'S TERRIBLE Gi MISTAKE l - Bandon. Sau.timiav 'venioi Dr Wlfliarn J Be-cher,te . (i the Ba~indo Wr-khouse, 10nt his lie to-day through a fatal niset.ke. Up to the ari' P1rt of tha forenoon he was, accar-inz to cuscn a. in attend.ie1ce at the institeteon, e nd at, (re o clock v as engaged in the surge rayakin' up the paLtlerS' nx;dicinee;. JIt' infirmary cur-e, Miss Pon e, Was ...

... TEHE ARMY. ?? isum an mr FRtOM LAST .NIGHT'S L(NDON3 C-. ...

... LATEST LIST OF CASUAl DESULTORY FIGHMING XI' LADYSMITH SERIOUS SITUATION IN RASiTOT TRANSVAAL RECRUITS VIA a.llJ -u BAY IRISH-AMERICAN BIS11OP DI)O 7 SIR E CLARKE ON THE GLE > JINGOES Loendon, Sundav Midnight. The following was issued at the War Office at 11 50 to night:- General, Cape Town, to Secretar of State for War:- (Received 31st December). Cape Town, 3Lst December, 6 10 p m. ...

... UL'S l I ST. VINC N'M 0 ?? ANXNi.L CHRIS! OMIME. A PHENOM'IMA, - ES-. Th re is ?? (4 .! 1yz igh;ul in a parforni:nt e g ven t' caii.t-, Lot Ciasr is anl 1rA.aue r whs ThptIt-iC atna 'fa-sir.itirg chboI in sucim an ?? t 8 iht. &en yester- ent rmaiatitt as ?? r0 3~~ day ait-rnoon by the boys of tk Ft Vincent do Paui's 0iphanmage, Giasnevit. The name and fame of the iet.-tution are as wide ...

... FOREIGN NTEIGENCE 1 IsEUTERaS TELECRAteS. ITALY AND GREECE. ROME, Sunday. An Athens despat,:h states that a qnodezs vicsedi between Italy and Greece was signed yesterday. It deals with navigation and custom-'s, the fishery question being reserved. LOSS OF AN £ENGLISiH VESSEL. THIRTEEN PERSONS DROWNMEl CHERBOURG, Saturday. The English sailing vessel Emily Lloyd has been lost near Equeher ...

... Yesterday thes annual sermon in aid of the t tbove mrieritorious instituti.on wams preached in a the Church of St Andrew, Westland row, by the I] Very Rev E H St George, 0 S A, Provi:ncial. 1r. re waG a large congreg-ation. The very rev preacher took for his :text verse 27 of the 1st IT Chapter of G-nesis, God created man in His li ow-n image, in the image of God created He him, n and dwelt. ...

... THE WAR RELIEF FUNI)-ACRNOWLE DG- uENTS FROM LADY DUFFERIN. To THE EDITOR OF THE BEIFAST NEWS-LETTER. Six-I shall be much obliged if you will acknow- ledge for me the sums which I have received for the Soldiers' nod Sailors' Families' Association. The calls upon the fund ate becoming extremelyI heavy, and we shall need all the help we can get. In Belfast alone the expenditure is rapidly rising ...

... NEW YEA.R'S E2VE. Death in the garb of time has come and taken within its embrace the year 1899, with all it, -I joiciogs and sorrows, its hopes and disappc-iutrner. To the inquiring mnid viwhat -a multitude of person-l thoughts mrust a survey of the last twelve monti'l bring forth. Who has not at the cormmlecesment (fj each year turned oxer a new leaf, blottirg out, as it were, the Misspent ...

... ?? ! I- TWO' EPISCOPAL LETTERS. I PROTEST AGAINST JINGOISMA FROMI AN A?GXLICAN AND AN. .lRISH-AME-; RICAN CATHOLIC PRELATE.. The Bishop of London is circulat cg a-New' Yea s message among the clergy of his dio- cese:- j I ain asked to writ.e a few wvords by way of a Newv Yejar's message to the diocese. I do so I wit-h sreat reluctance. for ray words must be i .ords of wnrning, not of ...