... Postponement of Warwick Races. There was a deep fall of snow in the night, which was continued more or less rluting the whole of the morning, and finding that racing would not be possible to-morrow, the clerk of the course, by consent of the stewards, has postponed the meeting until Thursday and Friday next, February 23rd and 24th. ...

... The American champion, John L. Sullivan, has replied to Knifton'. challenge by expressinr bis readiness to fight him for dE:200 a-side. He is also ready to fight Smith for a like amount. ...

... Newmarket Training Notes. I (BY OUR NEWMARKET CORRESPONDENT.) I NEWMARKET, Saturday.—On the Racecourse side, Mumford's Bonnie Lassie, Gherkin, and Verity were sent two miles and a. quarter St Prosper, Cobbler, and Volscian Queen covered one mile, Matthew Daw. son's Minting, Crow berry, Gantby, Piccadillj, and Repeater II galloped one mile and a quarter. Sadler's Pro Quo, Vagabond, The Tyke. ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. The Lord Chancellor did not take his seat on the Vool- sack until tweutv-five minutes past four, No doubt the reason his lordship was thus nearly ten minutes later than the usual hour for commencing the sitting was sup, plied by the fact that there was not a, single order or notice of any kind on their lordships' paper. Notwith- Standing this there was, however, a fair ...

... The ordinary rmonthWe meeting of the above Council was Iheld yesterday evening; the Mayor (0r. Benjamin Flingley, Td.Pl, preeiding.-A resolution or, the ageada resprscting the tramway line to Stourbrildge, and in the | namie of Councillor Matthews, was suspended, owing to the fact that 31r. aletshews had met with a serious accident. The Council felt that this was necessary because there was I ...

... ROSMAL FOR OONSUMPON. T3e siwma meeting of the friends and sup portrs of the hiverpool Hopit for Consmptiott ,ad Liseses of the Chestw hed ?? atWE th3 6 Town Hall, underthe tb.. 3 W( (Mr. T. W. Oa8 I, is ceirman ofti o . ititutlon; and mogatto tl2ss pesent were e 3 Gee. Clarke, She, D. M. Wilms, and Be A. D. Samnels; Messrs. C. Aldrich. J itigneat, M G em W. Hmnter, C H Beloe, T. & Priest, W. ...

... I T A I- I . EL ; uD SITATON W 'IMM '0 r. METOPOLITAN REC ON QF RE FAD 1pau' The iberal and Radls, g ?? _ sted publy dp ?? t;h* gfr with tbe fria * Ra d PasiMA who L suffered in the ,a. oi h%, . 4 and free ?? bod the Lonon 'ibral arid Radwea union, ft Maimu politan Radial Fieaatton, t So njW Union, and about 150 afl ad dubs Sad h SkonXaoft5, Rit M h. Sulliva 3 le ton at EButon Station, es1a ...

... WILLS AD BEQUESTS. The will (dated ApriL 21, 1887) of Mr. Alfred 15R lKrupp, late of the ;Iteel Wurks Essen. Plheaish ;i Pru2sia, who died on July 14- last, was proved on ser Feb. 1 by Frederick Alfred Krnpp, the residuary .legaiL the 'aLoe of the peronal estate within the B jurisdiction of the Englisb Court amountin- to! ail upwards of £273,003. Schiect to the yearly pay- If meat to his wife ...

... . LOCAL NEWVE Tics1 AsmawmEoy LiBEAsa '500.-A mleeting a .Ime Of the Liberal '-500 of the Abercroumby Par~lea- G rice 'renthr7 Division was held last evening in St. V 0'00 Luke's schoolroom,. Colguittatreet, Mr. ?? *121 LoveD, the President of the association, in the ft I chair. The annual report of the Executive Corn- N. 811 uittuse, which was of a highly satiafactory he-a tl 3.40. racer, ...

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... a - I. THE ACTUIN AGAINST MR BALFOUP. InI the action 'brouRht by Patrick Barrett of lBallin- cL sloe against M)Tr IBalfour, the Chief Secretary for Tre- land, for alleged slander in hii M1anchester speech, |i and the trial of which has been remitted to the L Recorder of Dublin, £1 has been lodged ii Court ci as enaugh to satisfy the plaintiff's claim for damages. . _ , =- ? - is ABERDErN ...

... THE POPE'S ALLEGED SYMPATHY WITH HOME RULE. . Dr MIEvilly, Arcbbishop of Tuam, in opening the' annual retreat in Tuam Cathedral yesterday, said rumours had been sent about by certain newspapers and interested persons, to the effect that the Pope was opposed to the legitimate aspirations of the Irish dc people, but there had never been a fouler calumny of invented. Ie could assure them that not ...