... DEGREE DAY. Degrees of the Victoria University were on Monday conferred for the fourth time. The proceedings took place in the Library of Owens Collece, which was croyrded. The Vice-Chancellor and professors of the IUniversitr, after robing, assembled in the Professors' Common Room, where they were joined by members of the University Court and members of Convocation. Prom the Common Room they ...

... h FRANCE A:D CEINA. ' CAPTURE OF A CITADEL BY THE FR.ENCH. The Freuch Minister of Marine has receiied the following telegram from General Millot, dated Eanoi, 22nd inst.: General Briere de Lisle has captirred the eitadel of Thai Nguyen, which was defended by Chinese troops. Large stores of provisions and ammunition- were found in the town. General Briere de Lisle will return to Hanoi to ...

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... LOSS OF AN ENGIUS9 SHIP AND EIGHTEEN LIVES. Information has just coran to hand of the wreck of the barque Clyde off the New Zealand coast, with the loo3 of all on board except. an apprentice. The drownrd people include the caotain's wife and three children. Frorm the despatch, which is dated the 8tb nlt., it ap- pears that the Clyde was a vessel of 552 tons register, and was bound from ...

... THE DYNAMITTE CONSPIRAUCIt. J'LOTS ON TEE CONTINENT. The Paris journal Lae Mnati of Sabtrday3states that a son of O'Donovan Rossa hag arrived in that city, but that there is nothing to prove him to be connected with B the Irish dynarnite party, the members of which appear S to- belong to the extreme Clan na Gael section. Teo journal addg that the brother of Brady, one of the o Poemnix Park ...

... ROC-HATJE AND BURY TRAMWKYS BILL. The bill promoted by the Manchester, Bury, Roch- dale, and Oldham Steam Tramways Company Limited was further considered on Monday by a Select Committee of the Eouse of Commons, presided over by ir. Hardcastle. Further evidence in support of the bill was given by DIr. Vawser, C.E., who ex- plained that at Tottington the terminus of the system was in a narrow ...

... THE LATE DUKE OF ALBINY.- REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS TO WINDSOR. ab The Press Association's special correspondent tele- in graphing from Portsmouth at 9 30 a.m. yesterday an ayI: The ceremony of transferring the Duke It of Albany's r~ergarins from Osborne to the funeral tan car, for remdoval 'to Windsor, was performed in to'r the Dockyard in Splendid weather this morn-- in ing. During the night ...

... LETTER CCCeII. I ?? THE INTERNATION IL SIDE OF MONARCHY? The messages of condolence telegraphed to Windsor from tbe contiuental cou'rs on the death of the Duke of Albany bring out irt stron relief the internationat aspe, of mortarchical illstltutions. I do ItOt f.rtet thlat one of thebi messages came f rom Al. GreV`, tlh Presideat of t the French Republic bui tits is one of those ts exceptions ...

... I RuTE.RS TELEGRAMS. I EGYPT AND THE SOUD I AI-tSST\Cjj HOF COLONEL DHIS PARTY. ST CAIRO, FRIDAY, 10 A.M. S,,b.Bjjji of Dflongola tclegraphs that a re e ssenger sent to the scene of the recent Na the Nile has returned to Dongola. *0irnScu ' the previous account. The * ,sgr add that there are no white men IIAD ; HALIA, WEnEFSDAY.X I has returnedd here from the ,nd ataactafte ~snesifl the ...

... ALARNING FIRE AT HOPE HOSPITAL, SALFORD. EXTRAORDINARY FREAK OF A LUNATIC. Hope Hospital, Salford, was yesterday morning, be- ween five and six o'clock, set on fire by a lunatic named George Reid. Owing to the vigilance of one of the warders the fire was discovered before it had reached serious dimensions, and was put out without much difficulty by the appliances on the spot. The occur- rence ...

... - THE WEEKLY TIMES. FOREIGN. Intelligence has been received from Tamatave indicating the probability of an early forward movement by the French commander, who for some time hbas been hesitating. to advance against the Hovas. Damage to the amount of about a million dollars has been caused by fire at Anoka, a small town in Minnesota. It is stated that a sawmill was the only building of ...

... At the Sheffield Town Hall, on Wednesday, before Mr. Welby, stipendiary magistrate, John Lindsay, with the aliases of Thompson, Proctor, Cookson, and Sedgwick, was brought up on a warrant charging him with illegally solemnising several marriages at St. Jude's Church, Sheffield. The prisoner, a young man of good address and highly-respectable appearance, has been in Kirkdale Gaol for two months ...