... THlE CHANNELI SHIPPINGiDISASTEI''. SEVERAL LIVES LOST. VENTN;OR, SATUILDAY.-No further tidings have been received respecting the missing boat and thirteen men of the wrecked steamer Cleddy. and this absence of news is increasing the anxiety in regard to her fate. When this boat left the ship the crew would in all probability have made for St. Catherine's Light, and this %would have taken them ...

... PO154 OUR MILIT4RY OOE10 PONIPENT. BY OUR SP'IAL WIER. LONDoN, WEDNESDAY.-Major Stringer has been struck off the strength of the 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, at Galway, and has assumed command of the dep6t companies of the regiment, at Wrexham. The 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, now at Dublin, has been ordered to prepare a draft of picked men, to be sent to India to reinforce the ...

... THE BURNING OF THE QUTEENSMORE. A STORY OF HEROISM, I SPECIAL TELEGRAM. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.-An inquiry was opened at Liverpool to-day by Captain Bragg, an inspector appointed by the Board of Trade, into the burning of the Queeiusmore, a Liverpool steamer, on a voyage 1 from Baltimore to the Mlersey. Captain Trenear, master of the vessel, who was the principal isit- ness, related the ...

... 1LDUCATIONAL ENDOWMEIENTS. DuBLIN, SATtJBD.Y.-To.day there was a sitting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for .be purpose of hearing objections to schemes framed by the Educational Endowments Crommais. tioners. There %vere ?? Lord Chancellor (Lord Ashbournel presiding the C Lord Chief Jnstice (rlight Honourable Peter O'Brien). the Vice-Chancellor (Right Honourable B. Chatterton). ...

... THE COURT. Oslnousa, WansD ?? Queen drove out yesterday afternoon. aecourpaiisd by their Rloyal Ilighusesecs Printcess Beatrice and Princess Sophie of Prussia. an-} her Mojredy wvent out this morning~f cx wvith the Elimpo,^s Frrdrerik and the ltoyal ?? V'iicountesi Downse arrived at O:'uborno yesqterda,nr nail had the honoulr of' dinling writh threir PlIaja-ti iQ, the Quleen, the rulpress ...

... ALLEGED FRAUD ON ORh CHA MBE RLAIN, ThP. AS ESXTI1AORDISAE.Y STOllY Beam ao nz AMi, XV nox nD.Su'.-The mariisttates here grantedl a wvarrant, to-day nuder thle fol- lowing circnm~stances:-A~ few dlays ago a menl of gentlemanly apipearatnce presented himself at Highbary, and re presented .to lMr. Joseph Chamberlain, 3I.P., that he was the son of a yrominent Americau citizen, whoma Mr. Chamber- ...

... BELPFAST P.RtISOAT G agTE MISSION FORl E1IN. ?? annual meeting of this mssociation asas hold vetterdlay, in the Young.1 Mhen's Christian Assooia-& eion IHlnl, Welling.ton Plhtce, There were pre- ?? Mayor, Mr. C. U. Comnor (in thle chair) Sir J. P. Corry, Dart M.P.; Sir John Prestot, the RigIht Iollonrable John Youlg, V.:i, ; the President of Queen's Colloge, the ModIerator of the General ...

... THE FLAX CROP. TO THE EDITOR OP1 THE BELFAST NEWS-LUTTER, Sin-Thero have beon a great many letters and inquiries lately as to the best means of grow- M ig flax. As a practical farmer I wish to give my CI experience. I have grown for twenty to thirty yt years past on an average every year perhaps five re or six acres, and never have had a bad mis-orop, Cj and have got up to £35 an acre for flax ...

... I I -- ?? M. ^ FROM OUR GOOR9SPONDENTS. EXPLOSION IN A COLLIERY. THREE MEN KILLED AND EIGHT INJURED. BanarN, WgDsu ^ys AFTESRN'OoN.-A terrible explosion Of fire-damp took place yesterday in the Reckliughausefl Colliery, near Dortmund. Three men were killed outright, and at least eight were seriously injured. ARRESTS IN ST. PETERSBURG. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.-Later ile. spatches received ...

... (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BE,'&FAST: TUESDAY, JANUARY T. 1889. A mnan named Wilkinson was arrested in Nottingham yesterday on the charge of having attempted to murder his wife. During the fog in London yesterday a serious- rail way collision occurred, and several persons were injured. A Tnan named Macey was yesterday, at I Faversharm quarter sessions, sentenced to five 1 years' penal servitude ...

... THE ChIN EXPEDITION-BURIITAH. Tan following extracts from the private letter of an officer employed in the Chin Expeditionary -Force will be rend with interest. The letter is dated. camp, Tollaing, Chin Hills, March 9th:- The force, or atleast the portion of it not now on the war-path, occupies a village of the above name, about 5,000 feet above sea level, built on the side of what at home ...

... JM1PIERIAL PARLIAETENT. I BY SPEOIAL AND ORDINARY WIRES. I-HOUSE OF LORDS, YESTERDAY. TIu Lob Cu[Axc urA.'OR took his seat on the wool- sack at a quarter-le2st four. ELECTORAL QUALIFICATION OF WOMEN. The Earl of MEATH moved the second reading of ai bill enabling women to sit as county council- lors after being duly elected. He omphasised the fact that he was not about to ask their Lordships to ...