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NEW YORK REPUBLICANS.
Call for the State Convention.
BATTLE WITH TRAMPS.
Several Fatally Wounded.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

LONDON, Jan. 31.-A Paris dispatch to the
Times says: NJ. John Emile Lemoinne, pub
vacancy in the senate caused by the death Of NJ.
Jules Favre, by the left center senators, whose
turn 1t is, according to the standing arrange
ment between the various groups Of the left to
I'LL up the vacancy.
Pere Hyacinthe'S Appeal.
M. Loyson-Pere Hyacinthe-haS asked the
perfect OF the department of the Seine to grant
him the use of the church of the Assumption In
the Rue st. Honore, at present occupied by the
Polish confraternity. NJ. Loyson pleads that
his present church is unsuitable, being too
small and too high rented. and that his work
addresses itself to persons requiring a religion
free from superstition and fanaticlsm His ap-
picat1on viii certainly be refused, as his COM
munlty occupies exactly the same position as
the Protestant free churches, which provide
their own edifices and pay their own pastors.
A Whole Family Murdered.
LONDON, Jan. 3l.-A rich landowner near Bar
celona, his wife, three daughters. and two wo-
men servants, have all been found murdered in
their beds. The deed was apparently done with
hatchet. The house was ransacked. swine
herd and his two sons have been arrested,
charged with the crime.
A Big Gun.
4 hundred ton gun has been tried at Spezzla
with results which surpassed expectations. II
attained range of 10000 metres, with charge
OF 220 kilogrammes.
The Empress of Russia.
CANNES, Jan. 31.-The Empress OF Russia
VIII leave here this Saturday afternoon and
isexpected to arrive in st. Petersburg on Mon
day or Tuesday next.
The Empress of Austria.
LONDON. JAM 3l.-The Empress Elizabeth, of
Austria. will leave Vienna tomorrow Sunday
for Dublin, where she will arrive on Wednesday
next, and will proceed thence to Summer Hill
to participate in the fox hunting this season.
The Cars Anniversary.
ST. PETERSBURG Jan. 31.-The municipality
OF this city has prepared programme in con-
nection with the celebration Of the 25th anni-
versary OF the Cars accession to the throne.
1t includes the presentation of an address TO the
Car with an album containing sketches OF
events in ST. Petersburg, an offer of a prize
of 5000 roubles for the best historical essay on
and the distribution to the public an account of
the principal events that have occurred during
the Cars reign.
Russian Robbers.
ODESSA. Jan. 3l.-The persons charged with
the robbery OF SOC, 600 roubleS from the govern
ment receivers Office at Cherson South Russia,
last June have been tried by court-martial
Three Of the prisoners were Sentened to fifteen
years imprisonment, with hard labor and the
women who originated the scheme of robbery
were sentenced to imprisonment for life at hard
labor. TWO OF the accused were acquitted. 1t
Is supposed the robbery was committed to aid
the NihiliSt cause.
HOners for Rosa BOnheur.
LONDON, Jan; sl-The King of the Belgians
has conferred the Leopold cross on Mademoiselle
Rosa Bonheur, the artist. She is the first lady
who has received this distinction. The King of
Spain has also recently conferred on this dist1n-
gu1shed painter an equally high order which
has never before been granted to a lady.
Death Of a Peer.
LONDON, Jan. 31.-The Marquis OF Anglesey,
liberal member OF the House Of Peers, is dead, al
the age Of SO.
COquetting with HOme.RuIePs.
Right Hon. VIM. II. Smith, first lord of the
admiralty-a liberal conserva..i -speaking i'm
Westminster, last nig.n.tt, condemned the diSpo-
sitlon or certain liberal politicians to coquette
with tne n0me-rulers, evidently referring to the
promise OF Lord Ramsay to support an inquiry
into the question of home-rule in the house OF
commons, in return for which the Liverpool
home rulers promised him their votes.
Liverpool Election Excitement.
LONDON Jan. 3l.-The popular excitement in
Liverpool over the approaching election for
member OF the House of Commons, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Mr.. John TORI,
Increases daily. The liberals are confident that
the Home Rule vote, estimated at 10000, will
give them victory. They also have the vote of
the temperance organizations. and Lord Derby's
local influence.
The Opening of Parliament.
LONDON, Jan. 3l.-In anticipation of the state
ceremonial, or the 5th OF February, when the
Queen will open Parliament arrangements are
being completed for the royal procession to and
from Westminster.
Thirteen Lives Lost by ShipvVreck.
The steamer Bengore laden with COAL from
Penarth for Gibraltar, fOul1dered when two
days from port. Thirteen Of her crew were
drowned. Six were saved A violent storm has
ragged in the Mediterranean for two days past.
and disasters to shipping are feared.