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  2. ARRIVAL. OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SUEZ.

    THE P. and O.branch steamer China, Captain Almond, arrived in Port Jackson shortly before midnight on Sunday. She brings London journals to the 22nd December, those by way of San Francisco being to ...

    Article : 265 words
  3. SHOCKING COLLIERY ACCIDENT.

    On Monday, l8th December, a fital colliery explosion occured at the South Wales Colliery Company's pit at Abertillery, near Cardiff, which, it is believed, has resulted in the deaths of twenty of the ...

    Article : 362 words
  4. FIRES IN THEATRES.

    The following memorandum has been issued from the Lord Chamberlain's o[?]i e dated December 21: The recent tragedy in the Brooklyn theatre, at New York, has most properly turned public attention ...

    Article : 566 words
  5. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

    THERE are twenty- four questions on the pay to be asked of ministers, besides the following business:- GENERAL BUSINESS—NOTICES OF [?]TIONS. Mr.M'Elhone to move,—1. That, in the opin of this House, ...

    Article : 1,696 words
  6. MIDHAT PASHA THE REFORMER.

    An important event has taken place in Constantinople. " Young Turkey," the party which is supposed to be penetrated by views of European Liberalism and enlightenment, has won a conspicuous ...

    Article : 239 words
  7. THE SEIZURE OF MR. ROSE BY BRIGANDS.

    Accoiding to details just published of the treatment experienced by Mr. John Rose by the brigands, it appears that, after being seized by them, he had to ride for sixteen hours on horseback. His horse ...

    Article : 210 words
  8. THE JEWS IN TURKEY.

    An interesting conference of Israelites has been held in Pans for the purpose of considering the condition of the Jews in Turkey, and of addressing a memorial to the Sultan on the subject of their grievanees, as ...

    Article : 152 words
  9. MURDER AT PIMLICO.

    A particularly cold-blooded murder was committed in Stanley-street, Pimlico, on Saturday, December 16. A young man named Treadaway called on a respectable couple named Collins, was hospitably and kindly ...

    Article : 172 words
  10. NEW GUINEA.

    A large and important Blue Book, with reference to the annexation of part of Now Guinea by the British Government, has been published Several deputations have waited on Lord Carnarvon to urge ...

    Article : 209 words
  11. THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AND BULGARIA.

    The Emperor of Russia, according to a telegram in the Nationale Zeituruj, has given Lord Augustus Loftus, her Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburg, an explicit assurance that, should armed occupation of ...

    Article : 71 words
  12. THE PROCLAMATION OF VICTORIA AS "EMPRESS OF INDIA."

    DELHI, January 1.—To-day the Queen of England was proclaimed Empress of India. The history of India before newspapers were invented is somewhat d[?] in regard to the particulars of the great pageants ...

    Article : 2,917 words
  13. CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE SULTAN.

    A conspiracy has been discovered at Constantinople to carry off theex-SultanMuradV.andtake him to Odessa. Four persons implicated in it have been arrested. Two of them are Turks, the third is a Pole, and the fourth ...

    Article : 59 words
  14. THE MURDER IN THE TYROL.

    The Austrian demand for the extradition of Henri Dieudonne Pierrau de Tourville, on the charge of murdering his second wife, Madeleine de Tourville, on the l6th July last, on the Stelvio Pass, was granted ...

    Article : 381 words
  15. CANAL ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN.

    Washington, December 31.—A Commission has been appointed by the President to examine the various surveys and report upon the most feasible route for an inter-oceanic ship canal across the ...

    Article : 712 words
  16. RUSSIA IN PERSIA.

    The tribe of Achal Teke are reported to have committed suc[?] serious depredations upon all the neighbouring tribes ever since they became vassals of the Shah of Persia that their victims have begun to call ...

    Article : 86 words
  17. A BONAPARTIST ELECTORAL VICTORY.

    LaPatrie of December 19 says:—"The election of a senator for the Tarn-et-Garonne has answered out expectations. The Conservative candidate, M. Delbreil, the Mayor of Montauban, has been elected by ...

    Article : 196 words
  18. MURDER OF TWO CONSTABLES BY POACHERS.

    On the turnpike road, wiihin a mile of Hungerford, Inspector Dreweatt and police constable Shorter, of the Berks police force, were brutally murdered by, it is believed, a gang of poachers, who lay in wait for ...

    Article : 646 words
  19. NEW GUINEA.

    A large and important Blue Book, with reference to the annexation of part of New Guinea by the British Government, has been published. Several deputations have waited on Lord Carnarvon to urge ...

    Article : 203 words
  20. GREAT FIRE IN PARIS.

    Late on Thursday night, December 21, a fire was discovered in the densely-populated Parisian quarter of St. Denis, and it soon assumed terrific proportions. It broke out about 8 o'clock in a bandbox factory, in ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN FRANCE.

    One accident follows another with startling rapidity on the Lyons and Mediterranean Railway. Scarcely had the company contradicted a sensational report that twenty surgeons went from Paris on Saturday, ...

    Article : 185 words
  22. THE WRECK OF THE CIRCASSIAN ON LONG ISLAND SOUND.

    New York, December 31.—The wreck of the ship Circassian is the most disastrous that has occurred on the Long Island coast since the wreck of the John Milton fifteen years ago. The Milton ran ashore in a ...

    Article : 925 words
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