TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The match game of chess yesterday between the champion, Steinitz, and D. Martinez terminated in a draw.

The condition of Hon. Lot M. Morrill has not materially changed up to last evening. It is thought he cannot live but a short time.

A young lady lately banished to Siberia for complicity in the Nihilist conspiracy, has killed the governor of Transbalkal territory.

M. Edourd Pailleron, poet and dramatist, and M. Charles de Mazade, publicist and historian, have been elected members of the French Academy.

Telegrams to the London Times from various parts of the United Kingdom report a snow storm of unusual severity. Traffic on the railways in many districts has been almost, if not altogether, suspended. Many wrecks around the coast are reported.

The funeral of Louis Blanc will be at the expense of the state. The will of the deceased orders a strictly civil burial. He bequeaths his library to the city of Paris The French Socialists in New York city have cabled to Paris to have a wreath of immortelles placed on his coffin.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8, 1. A.M. For New England, cold and clear, with north to west winds and higher barometer.