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Gladstone goes to the south of Europe to recuperate. A despatch from London, dated Jan« vary 9th, says the British ship British Empire, from Shields for Bombay, was burned at sea. Only ten persons were saved* Two boats, containing the captain, the mail, and fourteen hands are missing. : i ¥igott the Land Leaguer, declares that £100,000 of the Land League's funds are unaccounted for. . ■ The editors of the Times and London Observer were cited by the Lord Chief Justice on the 11th January, for contempt m publishing the correspondence m the BovdAJhamberlain- libel suit. : The new Law Courts have been pro* nounced an architectural failure. Michael Davitt, on the 14th January, attempted to deliver an address at Oldham on the Irish question, but was howled down by an organised gang. A free fight followed. Weapons supposed to have been used by the Pbcsnix Park assassins have been found near the premises of Carey, of the municipality, who was arrested with twenty others on a charge of conspiracy to murder Government officiate. The court on the 1 lth of January gave judgment against Charles Bradiaugb m an action against Erskine, the Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Comrmns,' far assault on the occasion of Bradlaugh attempting to enter the House ot Commons and take his seat as a mem* her, after a resolution had been passed prohibiting his doing so. < Richa dson and Niven's linen factory, Belfast, was burnt on January 11th. Loss L30,0Q0. The ship Wild Deer, bound for New Zealand, became a total wreck on the north coast of Cloughey, Ireland, on January 13th. All saved. On the 13th January, the Prince of Wales unveiled a statue at the Eoyal Military Academy, Woolwich, erected to the memory of the Prince Imperial by subscriptions of 25,000 officers »nd men of the British Army. Patrick Haggins, one of the murderers of the Huddys, was hanged m Galway on the 15th instant. N o excitement. ■, The floods of the Ehine have made terrible ravages, and many districts will never regain their former prosperity. On the 9th January fiaab, on the Danube, was submerged,' and many persons were drowned. - _ ; The French General Changy died; of rupture of a blood vessel; m the head while asleep. On bearing of his death General Horey de Valdan died at Lisle, of apoplexy, on January 6tbr. ; Bismark's appearance" m the Reichslag, on the 9th, evoked general sympathy. He seemed weak and m pain. It is doubtful if be will be able to attend the sittings of the Beichstag m May., A petition signed by 6000 persons has been presented t« the Reichstag asking the repeal of the enactment of the law closing commercial and industrial establishments on Suuday m Paris. The British note re Egypt proposed m order to avoid abuse or the freedom of the Suez canal, thnt it shall be enacted that m time of war a limitation shall be placed on the times during which vessels of belligerent powers will be permitted to' remain m the canal, and that no troops or munitions of war shall be disembarked and no. hostilities permitted on the Canal or its approaches or anywhere m the territorial waters of Egypt, even m the event of Turkey beiiig one of the belligerents. A recur* rence of an emergency resembling the late rebellion is provided for, by excepting measures for the defence of .Egypt, from the above restrictions.' Every Power shall be bound to bear the cost of the immediate repair of any damage its vessels may cause m the caaal, and Egypt shall take all measures m its power to enforce the condition* imposed upon ships of belligerent Powers using the canal. No fortifications shall be erected on the' canal or m its vicinity. Nothing m the agreement, however,; shall be construed as curtailing the territorial rights of Egypt further than expressly stipulated. Among other subjects not declared the question of the -Suppression of slavery is to be one which the British Government has much at heart, and that it will miss poop-' portunity of advising the Khedive to tnke the necessary steps calculated to attain the end m view. ' '■■ The province of Mu'fiia, m Spain, was shaken by an earthquake on Saturday, 13ib January. Toe Rappel of 15th January ridicules the unveiling of the statue of the Prince Imperial: by the Prince of Wales, and stigmatises the English nation, as a herd

of cattle, and the English Arroyos an army of women. The rei^pf. the J?«i« - journals also join vx these remark*. \ A Lkaseby the Caar dissolves all secret ■ocieties m dis dominions. The Emperor and the Emprtag of Russia, arrived at St Petersburg on January 13, and immediately Tinted the B!a«an fortress and the Cathedral. Defectives and apiei were increaied m every direction. ;' T , The losses by floods m Germany are estimatod at 80,000,000 marlu. : Thomas petroleum stores at Exeter wefe deateoyedL ■ Over 60,000, gaUonf of Waang oil ra»into the rivet,, setting ftre to shipping. S«Teral vewel* were destroyed aa well •• bwldiogs.