... W The followings letter appears in the 2Timnes of yes. terday: - Sir, - At tfte present time, when the above -question is occupying so much attention, the Mfolwing data lawv interest your readers, and - assist in an elucidation of the subject. Electricity a costs about one farthing per lamp of from 16 to 20 candle ir power, as will be seen from the following. One-horse I power will generate ...

... THE 9TH WEST YORK RIFLA S ENCAMPS I - MENT AT MORECAMBE. _ - The week,.tO Bhj3itJlJ The vweek's encampment of the 9th Weit Yor' BY Volunteers at Morecambe, under the command D1 Garnett-Orme, was brought to a termination 5Catu`>3:' wheu the battalion was inspected by Col Ficer0` cor - ing 33rd Regimental District, Halioa. Tie we0t6O very favourable, and the men have profited bytitsaer- larity ...

... 6TATE5 OF [I'LJLAND. (Fraor OUI1 Cniil.PXna ?? DUzn-x, Monday night. t uiinai Mactabe ?? a reception at his residelce In ittle ud-square this aftersloa. There was a very large 'ir. Davitt left this evening for Liverpool. Ie sails for Xe,. York on Thursday. Eari Spencer was present at the Trinity College athletic iestival to-day. Countess Spencer distrieuted the prizes. REPULSE OF A MYOONLIGHT ...

... The- ?? BAA 4A_ 1 -/5 ~rrli As- ion 4- At The annual mneetings of the Yorlrsliro Association of Bapitist Churches woreresumned yesterday, at the Baptist Chapel. flingley. The attendance of delegates was agalin large. THE OHAPEL LOAN SO=ITE. M~r. D. j. COoSSLEY (Hebdan Bridge), who presided at the annutal meeting of this society, read rthe treasurer's report, which showed flint during the year ...

... ?? i- COMMUNISTS AND STUDENTS IN PAIUS. F RObt 053 oWE CoIurEsPONDENT.n PARIs, Tuesday. Manifestations have not quite gone out of /fashion here, although not much has been heard of them orf late. Last Saturday and Sunday, however, saw a revival of this tind of public demonstration on the- part of the students of the University and the torn- munists. There was nothing, it is true, in common ...

... UBERAL16M IN MID-LINCOLN- SHIRE. MR. MELLOR, M. P., ON THE POLICY 0? THE GOVERNMENT. Last evenhig a mne.e~in in connection with the Mid- Lincolnashire Liberal Associatiori was held at Alford. Several branch associations have been formed at the towus in this locality, anit efforts are being made to rouse tha political feeling in order that the division, which has been left uncontested since its ...

... N E W S' | e' GENERAL TFOREIGNT I D THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS. (RExurn's TaaxoArs.) .e CO-nvNmoFpLE, Saturday.-The Marquis de I sl No0illes, having been received in audience by the I rX Sultan, was informed by :is Majesty that he was t y unable to share the views of the Powers as regards the z necessity for a Conference, inasmuch as the Porte was i in a position to remove existing difficulties in ...

... THE AFFRAY BETWEEN A SOLICITOR, A I CLERGYMAN. AND A PUBLICAN IN HULL. At the Hull Poliee~court, on Tuesday, before Mr Twiss,; ttipendiary magistrate, the Rev Ur Holt, vicar of Sane- ton, near Market Weighton, and Mrr Kirkpatrick, solicltor, Market Weighton,. appeared to answer an adjourned summons charging them with assaulting Mr Thomas Johnson, of the Grapes Inn, Chapel-lane. under ...

... OPENING OF A FREE LIBRARY I AT BIR~MINGHAAM. INAUGrBAL ADDRESS BY MR. BRIGHT, 0?noH ann-owN Rsraonrxn.) BrasrUGAn Thursday. The Free Library which has been erected here in place t of that which was destroyed by fire nearly three and a half years ago was formally opened to-day by Mr. Bright. It is a magnificent building, and stands on the site of the old structure in Iatoliffe-place. The coat ...

... - ! NCHESTER UNITY OF ODDFELLOWS. Ad The Annual Moveable Committee of this Order conm. ve menced its business meeting in the Drill Hall, Cardif, a | on Monday, Mr Thomas Flanagan. of Manchester, the [n I Grand Master, presiding. The deputies from the ?? District are Mr W. Coates, Pro. G.M. ; Mr G. Rodvaeil, Pro. C. S.; Mr R. Williamson, ?? Mr T. Rnri, d ?? and Mr H. Best, P.G, The Beveriey l ...

... I I HO=rE or COMosS, Monday Night. t In the House of Lords proceedings have today been somewhat more lively, if not more iseful than usual. Egyptian affairs were not unnaturally the first 1 to pay, but nothing of consequence could be t extracted from Earl Grauville, who answered 1 his interrogatories, Lords Salisbury and Carnarvon, with a testiness amounting almost to a certainty in so urbane ...

... MIANCFHESTER WHITSUNTIDE MEETING. The weather remained fine for the fourth day of this popular me~eting until the raging wan nearly over, when a slight shower tell Special trains traon all parts of Lancashire brought many thour- sands of viuitors to the city, curl there was again a great concourse of spsetstors, Every part of the ground being well patronised. although, of course, theris ens ...