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(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Brussels, January 8. The Charleroi miners, who are out on strike, are becoming very excited, and have assumed a meuacing attitude. Brussels, January 13. The mine owners- have conceded the demands of the Charleroi miners. Berlin, January 9. The late Dowager Empress Augusta will be buried on Saturday. The Prince of Wales will represent Queen Victoria on the occasion. The German elections have been fixed to take place in February. The body of the /Empress Augusta has been embalmed, and will lie in state until Friday. The funeral will take place at Charlotteuburg. The French Ambassador , sen.t , a formal letter of condolence to the Emperor. Berlin, January 10. A Munich paper asserts that the Czar of Russia has recently suffered from severe fits of .epilepsy, to which he has been subjecfcfsince he met with the railway accident at Borko in October, 1888. Berlin* January 13. The Emperor of Germany has informed the Reichstag that the peace of the world is assured. Sx Petersburg, January 9. Twenty different newspapers, in publishing the details of the recent Siberian massacre, state that the Czar expects the officials to severely punished. It is announced that the Osar is punishi(\g tha authors of the 'recent in Siberia, St. Petersburg, January 11. During a melee arising out of a police raid on a Nihilist Club at Moscow, a young woman killed the chief officer of the secret police of that .city and afterward committed Buicide. St Petersburg, January 13. The Russian Budget is indicative of the maintenance of peace, the votes for re-arming being on a moderate scale. Parts, January 10. The proposed conversion of the Egyptian debt has been suspended owing to the opposition of tho French Government. Parts. January 11. Intelligence is to hand to i he effect that the King of Dahomey has made a prisoner of the Governor of French Senegal. Troops are.being despatched to rescue him and quell the rebellion. Paris, January 13. The Governor of Senegal, who was

recently captured by the King of Dahomey, has been released. Munich, January 11. Dr Dollinger, who has obtained a world-wide notoriety by his persistent opposition to the decrees of the Vatican Council, has succumed to the attack of influenza ; aged 91. Venice, January 11. Mr Vanderbilt, the New York millionaire, has purchased Turner’s famous picture of the Canal in this city for twenty thousand pounds. Madrid, January 11. It is reported that Senor Zorilla, the Spanish Republican leader, is in hiding in the Pyrenees awaitiDg the developments of the present crisis.^ Madrid, January 13. A band of Republicans cut the railway line in Andalusia, and troops are now in pursuit of them. Antwerp, January 12. The next series of wool sales rakea place on the 22nd January. Eight thousand bales were catalogued, including 1100 Australian. SPECIAL. Berlin, January 11. Tbe funeral of the late DowagerEmpress Augusta took place to-day with imposing ceremonies. The Duke of Ed nburgh and Empress Frederick, were among these present. Prince* Bismarck was absent, at the desire of the Emperor William, on account of ill health. Constantinople, January 11. The Khedive will shortly visit tho Sultan. Paris, January 10. The wine production of France this year amounts to 23,000,000 hectolitres, the lowest for twenty years.