Jean Dupre, the sculptor, is dead.

A fire in Tokio, Dec. 15, burned 140 houses.

The Japanese students at Pekin have been recalled.

The King and Queen of Spain arrived in Lisbon yesterday.

Four cases of small-pox were reported yesterday in New York.

At Albay, Philippine Islands, a great eruption occurred Nov. 22.

The first snow storm of the season in Chicago set in about 11 o'clock yesterday.

A severe earthquake occurred in the district of Kan Tcheou, Japan, yesterday. Over 250 killed.

Yesterday morning there was a $200,000 blaze in Denver, Col. Two men were killed by falling walls.

The gross total of outrages committed in Ireland in December is 574. The largest number of cases occurred in Munster. King's county has been proclaimed.

Judge Porter made strong efforts to convict Guiteau yesterday. The case was adjourned until Thursday. From that day on the court will sit from 10 until 4 daily.

The Chambers were formally reopened in Paris yesterday. In the senate, M. Gaulthier presided by virtue of seniority. In the Deputies, M. Brisson was reelected president.

The Press Association, referring to yesterday's cabinet council, says it is generally believed that the government will not at present release Messrs. Parnell and Dillon from imprisonment.

Gen. U. S. Grant wrote yesterday to Senator Miller of New York asking him to withdraw his name from the bill introduced in the senate by Mr. Miller incorporating the Nicaraguan Canal Co.

The senate and assembly met last evening in Albany, but adjourned without being able to break the dead-lock. The Tammany men are still firm, and there appears no immediate prospect of adjusting the difficulty.

E. H. Parker, the British consular agent at Chun King, Japan, has been mobbed by the natives. A proclamation has been issued by the viceroy, ordering the people to treat foreigners with respect, and to protect them.

The Paris correspondent of the London Times says that the French government will persevere with the revision of the constitution. The principal changes will be in increasing the representation of the large towns, and in depriving the senate of the power of rejecting money bills.

The President's new turnout is at present the sensation in the streets of Washington. His son, spending a few days of vacation at the White House, takes a daily airing with his friends. The team is said to be the finest in Washington, eclipsing even that of Attorney-General Brewster.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11, 1882-1 A. M. For New England, increasing cloudinees, with snow or rain; easterly to southerly winds, falling barometer, slight rise in temperature.