... I IPERIAL PARLIAMENT. I * (LOUO1} OWN REPORTERtS.) EOUSE OF LORDS, TH=SDAYI The Earl of REr.snALs, in the absence of the lord Cbancellor, took his seat on the woolsaok shortly before five o'clock. KANDAHAR. Earl LYTTON rosa to move-4 That in the opinion of this House the policy announced by Her Majesty's Government in regard to Kandahar is not justified by the informationwhich has been laid ...

... The Times publishes a summary of the changes mad& during the last few weeks in Mr. Childers's army organisation scheme, and to be introduced into it before it is embodied in the Royal Warrant, which will come into force on the 1st of July next. As to the changes in the general organisation. the Times says- . The prinoipal will be the alteration in the organisation of a cavalry regiment. ...

... THE NEW WATERWVORES FOR WAKEFIELD. 'r wv 'LD[1ne Yesterday Aid. Lee, chairman of the Waterworks Com- S. mnittee of the Wakefield Corporation, turned the first sod EV of the reservoir to be constructed at Ringstone Edge, a few miles to the south-west of Halifax. Tbh scheme was ei described in the Memacury of yesterday. Ringstone Edge a Reservoir will be the chief source of supply. It is in the ...

... I:uTlE LEEDS LEEICURY. THURSDAY, Setember 15th, 1881. AcconmINo to the telegram received atthe American Legation in London yesterday, there had been no material change in the President's condition during the previous twenty-four hours. He had, at his own request, been moved from his bed to an extension chair, on which he remained half an hour. The official bulletin issued yesterday morning ...

... JTIIS OIITNISG 'S NAE WS-,. ' TO-DArS LONDON PAPERS. t iEIROCU 7-OFFICE, Saturday, 5 anm. PRESIDENT GARFIELD. 1 Telegraphing at ten minutes to five this morning, a our London correspondent'states that at that, hour the,-. latestiadvices from Washington as to the President's to condition were that he is still in a critical and almost a hopeless state. r (Timns TELEeRAXL).P Ps1Ms.4nrLPrA, Friday ...

... LEEDS . UNICIPAL ELECTIjNS. NOMMATION oS CADIMAT12.- The nomination papers must be delivered atr the Town Clerk's -Office not later than -five o'clock on Saturday next, the 22nd instant, and the Mayor will attend -in his Rooras on Monday, the 24th instant, from two to four p.m., to bear and decide objeo- toas to nominations.' It will not be competent- for' any candidate td withdraw his ...

... THIS BLACDKBAJN RAILWAY COHLLSION. It I . I ^s Ivi+ ''ANOThtflT b3lATt!. ' ?? B;Ao Iatinw, Wedfesday Night. The ifth death iesulting frin the Blaokburn railw.ay col- ,ision occurred at 2.20 thisafternoon inthelnfirimary. The victimis Miss 'ardif, aged 14 years, who resided at t 1; Mans-, field, Southport. She was travelling with her auit,.Mrs. Bashall, who is suffering from compound fraoture ...

... MR. KRUGER AND THE TRANSVA&L NEGOTIATIONS. I The .Daily Nses torrespondent t~t Newcastle telegraphsl the following letter- aadresed by Vice-President Kr uger, on behalf of ?? of Boers, to ?rei- dent Brand: -To the President of the Orange Free State. GovernmeintHouse, Heidelberg, March 3rd. Sir,-Your letter to the Trium airete of the 20th February reached me yesterday at noon here. I was ...

... OXFORD ELECTION COMM1SSION, hf STATEmrNT BY SIR W. HARCOURT. The Commissioners resumed their inquiry Into the y alleged corrupt practices at the recent elections at Oxford i- yestcrd ay afternoon, at 2.30, at No. 9 Committee-room in 11 the House of Commons. g Mr. Vkomias Bofwden Green was the first witness called. It and, examined by Mr. RIIDLEY, said he was a secretary, h and had received ...

... A NATION O.F FIFTY MILLIONS. WASHINGroN, Decemabor Slst.-The Superintendent ci Census makes the following a pproximate statement of the population of floe States and 'Territonies. It is believed to be very near the actual figurges, which, it is expected, will ibe announced nest week:- ?? 1,262,344 ?? ?? - ?? ?? 40,441 Ment,¶as.. .I.. .. 2a9,167 ?? 802,504 ?? 1..1462,432 California ?? ?? ...

... PARLIAMtNTARY NOT.ES. 'ftu oDS owna CoansporDnw.) nfoes op Oomm, monday xight, T'his ?? the ?? of Lords eat for half- an hour, ftnd tben leparatod without engaging in any business of Impoitan&e._ In the House of Commons, Mr. Rylands put a very 81ignifcant question to the Under-Seoretary of 5tate for Foreign Affairs, Did Lords B3eaeoosfleld and Sallsbpry,' at the' time of the Berlin Conference, ...

... IITT(rnvll - . .. - The Right Hon. W. E. Forser, SeckeatLjye, , 3 Ireland, arrived at Windsor Castle yesterdal tl. iand had an. audiece of the Queen ' te, Her Majesty's dinner party included Pri Lady Churchill, the Hon. Evelyn Paget, 1,,, t W. E. Forstor, Lord Maethuen, Lieutenaut f ' Right Ron. Sir H. and the Ho Lady Pos Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windse, t I' - Welleslov, and Captain ...