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London, December 18. It is announced that Sir George I. nun. veil, who resigned tbe position of Lord Justice of Appeal in September last, has been raised to the Peerage. The Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of State for India, mnnc a ?=*n»ech to-day at Prom'ey in J_rn.;i-.l.ir. in the course of

which he stated that although the Leaguers were continuing a guerilla warfare in Ireland there were hopeful signs tbat the agitation iv the country was gradually diminishing, among the chief of these being the fact of the increasing tendency which had of late been shown on the part cf juries to convict for agrarian outrages. It i 3 announced tliat Her Majesty the Queen will attend in person at the opening of Parliament in Febuary next. Dec. 19. A stem cf unusual severity was experienced over a great fart cf England last night. The wk ,s blew with hurricane force and caused imnieLS.. destruction to property in Fevera! p1.e.3. News is to hand from Ireland that the r-o'.ice proceeded to a house iv Dublin end made extensire seizures of dynamite, gunpowder, and arms, p.nd in addkion a number of documents inipiieatiug several paople. TLe pvreoEs ia charge of tho house wero arrested, End the arrest of oth-rs will be male for: h with Obituary : George Edmund Street, the eminent architect, aeod 57. The statement wbi:!- has been current: to the effect ihat the Queen would opeu Parliament in parson is oflictelly denied. Alexandria, D.:c. 18. The steamship Enopa from Australia for London with a curgo of frczen meat has passed through tbe Caual. Her cargo ia reported to be in perfect condition. ('' Argus " Specials.) [Per Albion at the Bluff. J A decidedly anti-Irish feeling is spreading in England in consequence of the cowardly outrages and intimidations systematically practised in Ireland. The Lord Mayor of London has opened a fund for the assistance of the Property Defence Association in Ireland. Kresident Arthur has signed the Convention establishing the Post Offlce money order system between tbe United States and New Zealand and New South Wales. A terrible explosion has occurred in a coal mine belonging to Cockerill and Co in Belgium, b.y which sixty-six miners were killed. A serious railway accident occurred to-day on the North London railway line. Three trains came into collision at the Caiionbury Station, and seven p. ssengers were killed and sixty injured. Two soldiers named Woodhead and Northcote have been sentenced at the Dublin Cnmifjal Court, for the murder of a bandsman at Curragh. A shocking disaster has occurred at Pittsburgh the capital of the Alleghany County Pennsylvania. A large house caught fire' and 20 inmates perished in the flames. ' A grand concert was recently given in Berlin, when Madame (nic Maggie Menzies of Melbourne) performed several selections on the pianoforte. The correspondent of the Times speaks of the style she displayed as highly creditable to the musical talent of Australia.