... m1) THE EamTOa. OF THE P'Ru EIrAS. Sir-In reply to your offensive paragraph in this day's F iinrn, m which my name is so ire* quently repeated, I beg to say that my former let- terouthe aubject referredto hasconvincedeveryone bet you and you clique; that whatyou designate as a re-assembling, lie., was a duly constituted meeting of the sub-committee. The chairman's signature was appended to ...

... LOND N CORSPOQNDENC LoNzDON, SA.TruAy. IT is reported that the Government are getting weary of the Ballot Bill, and that, notwithstanding the promise of the Premier to carry on the struggle with unabated ardour, they would be very glad to drop it if a decent excuse for so doing should arise. Mr. Leatham and his friends are very angry at the .rejection of their amendment by a majority of twenty ...

... l SPECIAL. TELlEGRAMS. (FROM O UR OWN CORRESPONDENT&) LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. London, Monday Night. Her Majesty held a Council at Windsor this afternoon, the Ministers travelling by special train. Alderman Dakin, to-day, received the honour of knIghtbood. The Paris correspondent of the Stanrard tele- graphs, that the Constitutionnel notices, without -throwing doubt on it, the story of an ...

... 1HOUSE OF LORDS-YESTERDAy. i (By Special ?? Association Telegraph.) The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the wool. sack at five o'clock, INSOLVEZT LORDS. The Lord Chancellor gave notice that on Thurs. day next le should move to the effect that the house is satisfied that a noble lord, a member of the house, had satisfied the terms of the act; that he had discharged the debts under the ...

... [Co iMUiIOATED. 1 A vieY successful meeting of the midnight mission was recently held in the School-room adjoining the Rev. J. Macnaughtaa's Church, Rosemary Street. L In accordance with the usual practice on such oc- i: casions, the gentlemen who wereto perambulate the streets for the purpose of inviting the unfortunate girls to the meeting, assembled between eight and nine o'clock for ...

... THE HEALTH COMMITTEE-THE I'IRRE- (GULAR. Zh.AL i MOVIO.N. The Public Health Committee of, the Corpora- tion met to-day, at the City Eall Conncillor M1ACLEAN, en the chair. Tuere were also pre- eent :-The Right Bon. the LordNI Mayor, Alder- men iRedmond, U'RErke,,Turpey, Ml'Swiney, gan. ning, Gregg, and M'Cann. Councillors-Sir W. Carrol], AIl .; (i. P. Warren, Redmond, Franklin, Carton, Bolger ...

... SRlIP WRECK AN'D LOSS OF LIFE AT I KINGSTOWN. Daring the hurricane which raged over the port of Kingstown on Sunday, two vessels were driven ashore and completely wrecked, the casualty in one case being attended with loss of life. A French brig, the M-ariette Pambcouf, of Nantes, 240 tons burden, Captain P. Legrand, bound for Londonderry with a cargo of barley, arrived in the harbour on Sunday ...

... SICTNS OF THE DOWNFALL OF THE GLADSTONE GOVERNMENT. T1S fPOSIION OF THEGOVNIENT [Fastoa TnE SATURDAY REEvizjv. w LTaE-LY things have been going badly with the Government. On Monday an amendment which they pronounced almost fatal to their Ballot Bill was carried against them by a majority of one, and on this occasion the Conservatives could not resist the pleasure of coalescing with the ...

... COURT AND FASEION. T}I1 COUR.T. WINDSOR CASTLE, SATURDAY, APRIL 20.-The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon, and her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds this morning with Prin- cess Beatrice and Prince Leopold. Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales, attended by Mr. Dalton, have arrived at the Castle from Chis. wicks April 21at.-Her Msiesty the ...

... -1 1. - :1, ? - I 1? 2, - ?? . . ? ?: ? Ct,, w ?? - , ?? ?, I - . 11 - DUELIN: TUIESDAY, APjiML L2:, 17. ?? iRELA?;D 7;as once again prov. : cily' of the Eplight C t 7ur. T S of yestr7ay a rzr ni'iu a: :, ei 1; ILu oa , u uol, ea lead 1 ser tai nilt . .-z Admilnishratiol 'i1 posw {i . 2 . .is solved before the ?? -.0 , reached its close, and tha. .i on the rock of Iri,'ii Ebiut iilm : ...

... THE TOWN PARKS OF BALLYMtNA-So SHAFTO ADAIR AND HIS TENANTS. ON Wednesday a number of the inhabitants of Ballymena waited, by appointment, on Sir Shafto Adair at the Baflymena estate office, in order to hear an explanation of his views relative to the future distribution of Town Park holdings The interview, which was chiefly conversational, occu- pied about an hour and a-half, and was, on all ...

... LANCASHIE NOTEyS A2SD . JOTTLNGS. NRuSIT FD taM a EU ummj. I PRMSToNr, Aantl 20, S1 2. HAVING -aust completed a lengthened tour through the whole of North, ancd a portion of South Wales a few brief remarks regarding it may not bea ith. out interest, especially for those, who, like myself previous, to this visit, have never been in that highly picturesque, asd, in natural resources, rich ...