... 6- - HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, August 6. a Royal Commission. ta Their Lordships met at three o'clock for the purpose of giving the Royal Assent by Commis- t sion to certain Acts passed by both Houses of r Parliament. The Commissioners were the Lord- t Chancellor, Earl Waldegrave, and Lord James c of Hereford. Altogether 112 Acts received the 1, Royal Assent, amongst them being the follow- ,; ...

... . OUR LONDON, CORRESPONDENCE. !, l i : . ,, , i, _ ?? ,, - , 112 FLEDce STofFie, hr Sunday Night. co POLITICAL SAh ICS AND DmJINa S. ed All the latest news that has bw reached headquarters bere points to thecon- Ti elusion that the South African war is reallyth over, and that the work of the statesman and In constitution-builder is now about to begin. hR Rumours of every kind are current, of ...

... tht Pi:lIE-CA.REWV CAPMTURES A th, BO IR POSITION. Io Official Despatch. The War Office has issued the following de- spatcb: - Lord Roberts to Secretary of State for War. Bloemfontein. April 23, 4.40 p.m. Rundle reports that 25 men of 1st Worces- tc.s are missing. Fifty-three were sent with wood to an outpost after dark;, and only 18 returned. Their numbers and nannes will bec reported to-day. ...

... UNIVERS ITY COURT OF ST ANDREWS. :~-Handsome Gift from Lord Bute. It A meeting of the University- Court of the sk- se University, of. St Andrewst swa held on Satur- dlay,- when there were ?? James; re Stat .P., rect,,r of the university (in the hi o chair); Principal Donaldson, Very Rev. Princi- r epal. Stewart, Principal Mackay1 Mr J. Gordon b Stuart, IProvost Ritchie Welch,, Dr Balf our, t a ...

... TIEIIT8I-7IL ,~ - A SERIOU BLOW TO TR The Saarg Chese. {From Special Core spondent of ro a .y News and Glasgow Herald') Shanghai, July at$ 2.50 prm.. Ui4-Kun-Yi strongly urges tht the Allied, Powers should give a guarantee not to :atenspt the partition of China. and to proteidt the pes : of -the Dowager-Ernpress. Chinee from Tai-Yau-Fu 'say that, owin g to -- the anti-foreign feeling of the ...

... PROFESSOR PHILLIMORE &' HOIM RULE, Y Last night Professor J. S. Phillimore, of the4 e Glasgow University, delivered an address eag Homo Rule to the members of tho Glasgovr y Central Liberal Association in the rooms, S54 Dumbarton Road. Councillor Jas. Allexanderi presided, and there were also ?? Ferguson, Messrs Michael Swan, T. WT. Wei4- Flint, David M-Tonro, Patrick Barr, And. Leitch ...

... THE. SMALL-COAL MAN. The memory of Thomas Britton, biblioppole, ing chemist, musician, and small-coal man, should be¶cl 1kept green. amongst students of the social and 4 Ieconomic conditions of the 17th century, a period jA teeming, it need not be said, with foremost in- sto( terest. Tbis small-coal man's entity was unique, I , and so rema rk-able as to create suspicions that his! Bas IC muial ...

... A FIGHT AT, ACTON HOMES. The Boers Lose Heavily. ) Official Despatch. (A The following is the teat of the message re- ceived at the War Office from General Buller:- T Spearman's Camp. January 18, 7.15 p.m. und The following message was received from diti General Warren last night:- side Colonel Lord D:undonald, with mounted the troops, came into action with a force of Boers lars to the west of ...

... GLASGOW COLLIERY REPRESENT AIATV ES. Annual Dinner, The semji-jubilee, dinner of the GagwCl liery Representatives took place in thle Windsor Hotel last night. 'Mr Henry Aitken, of the Cailow Coal Compny, pa occupied the chair, anid the croupiers were Mr James Paterson, of the 1Glasgow Iron and Coal Company; Mr James Hoff ~at, of John Wvatson (Limited), in the un-) 2avoid:able absence of M11r J ...

... I LIBERALS ANYD.-THE WAR. Private Mleeting-Text of Resolutions. (PMESS ASSOMflTIO'T TrT.ECTIA London, F eruary 14. a This afternoon a privately-convirned meeting of Liberals, to which admrission w~as by ticket, and from which representatives of ?? press wrce .y Cxcludcd, was held .n Westminster l'alace Hotel e to oppose the war policy of the Govrnmaent. There was an attendanc2 of between 2ZU a ...

... 1'%hIII) EDI~TIONA. H7.EI)~,T Orr'Ic.ClC AX.t. %ovTII AFRICA. ttR IRfG-R, \'lr VITSIT TO nx-KIS> ? CSRA~i!.) 3larseilhet, November 19. r ...

... -ASHANTI RISI PROGRESS -OF 0 THE :I RELIEF FORtCE. I Fighting and Heavy Casualti;, ,(aoLo'IAL OYME TMLEGL±&) Londor, j,- _ K The following telegram has been recsi;; k Sir F. Hod'son, dated Ak-wabosLu, Juiy 1. Crossed 0 in River, 30th June and Ist, Following Europeans left Kumasi with force:- Governor of Gold Coast and Lady Hod1, Commissioner and Commandant Mornis. Special Service Officers ...