... (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 ...

... ANNUAL MEETING. V fcc THE annual meeting of thso friends and supporters Ilit of the Consumptive Hospital took place yesterday wc at thle institution, 'throne'Mount, when there mit was a fair attendance, amongst those present (A being- the Von, the Archdeacon of Connor (Dr. Scaver), Revs. John Spouce, J. Danikerley, L. A. COi Pooler, J. C. Street ;Messrs. R. W. Murray, 3 P.; 111% William ...

... BY OUR SPECIAL WI'lr Bxrr.vST ?? O( Ics. 169, FLEET S'rlxtc'r, LONDON, rE, TUESDAY MORNING, Six O'CLOCK, THE EXPLOSION IN A HO7TEL, A New York ?? ?? nme-t appalling Catastrophe which haS ever Vi.' tha town occurred at. an early hear Vc' tcrdiay mornin4 at Hartford, Cecieicm The scene of the disaster was the Pirtc CnIltu ...

... MR. CHAMBERLAIN ON HOHE, RULE. I SPECIAL TELEGRAM. fort Sr. ANDREWS, SATURDAY.-This afternoon, in Ass reply to an address of welcome from the Unionists it I of St. Andrews, wil Mr. CuAMN1BERLAIN ?? is very interesting by on such a visit as this to go back and try to recon- nat stitute the past-to the times when St. Andrews mix was tho great political and ecclesiastical centre of def are ...

... BY OUR SPECIAL WIRR BrJ.FAST NESw-LICNrLP. OFPICK, YL 6 ' T STREiET, LANnON, LO. FLIDky 1XORNINC, SIX O'CLOCK. LAST NIGHT'S DEBA.TE, Last night the 11ouse, s~ays the &Nzlslard, wal treated to one of those regrettable performances byL which the Natloneahit party are rapidly dis- sipatiug any Inoral advantage likely to, accrue to them froin the recent dratnatio Collapse of one of the cbargeW ...

... 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 ...

... SECOND EDITION, BY OUR SPLCIAL WISR, BELFAST NEWS-1L''r'TrR OaIneCir. 16B9, .FrEr S'rzrevr, LOnDOX, E.C WEEDKimSDAY MoRmiSING, SIx O TILE O~l) R LIEUTENANCi. The Daily 2ifyqrup'l'. in its leader on thle typ.l' tation to Lord Salisbury, ri the Vicsaoialtr -What answer Lord Salisbury will or cail 'rjv'e , the Irish peers to-day it led ilicult toane~icilpsee go Londonderry's term of office closes ...

... 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 ...

... THE EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENTI COMMISSIONLRS. THE ULSTER ROYAL SCHOOLS. ha Co FROM OUR SPECIAL REPO1TR. pO DUBnral, FRIDAY.-The Educational Endowment Commissioners held a sitting to-day in the Court of to Chancery. 'ho Commissioners present were- tIC Lord Justice Fitzgibbon, Lord Justice Naish, Dr. SH Traill, ?? Rev. Dr. Molloy, audRev, Professor po Dougherty. They sat for the purpose of hearing ...

... THE RJILA\AY ACCIDENT AT AR.ThuH. FUilD YOU IRlL[I;I OF SUFFEREIUS. Cet';,inl Yis'ouint T1%n puptiown. ?? £50 0 a Plollrietor3 Yiv hrtft ?? f . 20 0 0 lev. Artimtr Pak. utiani. D.L., .1.. 10 0 0 ColIectcilC! fruill St. EnOOt's Sabbatil .. ?? ?? 9 7 10 Thrl tot; ii f s ii SIaft stbur, \ ?? 5 0 0I ?? ?? \l'iui/.lll 5 0 0 AVIU. (:i 1.. . . . 5 0 0 Vtal'hlin U, nltC ( ..t.lo ?? 3 0 0 Jot)-pjll ...

... TRlE GENERAL ASSEMBLY , OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN IRELAN D. OPENING PR3OCEEDINGS. n TFrs General Assembly of the Preabyterian Church 1 in Ireland began its deliberntions last evening, at e seven o'clock, in the Cooke Menmorial Church, Mlay t- Street, when there wa3 a largo attendance of t ininisters and eld'rs, and of the (geueral public. b 0 The MODu.nATORI (Rev. I J. Lynd) preached h tu ...

... BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE. FROM OUvR MILITARY CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, TuESDAY.--Lieut. - Colonel Murray, R.A., has become commandant at Limerick, vi-ne Lieutenant-Colonel Studdey, recently placed on the Indian supernumerary list. Lientenant-Coloncl Murray was previously in command of a field artillery division at Aldershot, and has been thirty- one years in the army, seeing active service during the ...