... iOUR LONDON LETTERI.| BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE. BELFAST NEWS-LETTER OFFICE, 169, FLEFT STREET, E.C., TUESDAY NIGHT. THE withdrawal of the counsel who represented air. Parnell and his associates before the Special Commission is not regarded as a very vise step in political circles. Mr. Gladstone's advice has not been accepted. If Sir Charles Russell, Mr. Lock- wood, Mr. Reid, and Mr. Asquith had ...

... 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 ...

... 'TiHE ROYAL GCrIATS. t. LoNmos;, WEDNESDAY. - A conference took t place in the lobby this afternoon between Mr. a Akers-Douglas, chief Ministerial whip. and Messrs. hi Storey and Phillip Stanhope with reference to the a debate and division on DMr. Henry Labouchere's o amendinent. Mr. Storey, who seconds the amend- d ment, agreed that the division shall be taken on Friday night, hut he added ...

... LAST evening a large and representative meeting of the conoregation of the Parish Church was held in the Jofinson Memorial Mission Hall, for the purpose of presenting an address and testimonial to the Rev. George Gore Mervyn, AM., on the occasion of his resigning the curacy of that parish in order to take charge of the parish of' Ballyma- carrett. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Dr. Hannay, ...

... A SERIES OF EVICTION'S I ON THE n S1 IIAWARDEN ESTATE. d TENAN'flARMERS SOLD OUT IN THE i ; SN'OW. 0 a THE GLADSTONE FAMILY AS LANDLORDS. t BY THE SPECTATL CONMSIMW1ONEP OF THE d LIVEnPooL COuRlER. n !Iuau tenant-farmers have been induced to assume. I that they are a harshly treated and oppressed t olass, and that their agricultural brethren in Eng- s land and Wales are in the blissful ...

... TIID WEAT*IIEIt. nv OCR SPECIAKL W;IR., TT{E following forecasts, referring rto the ?? of the ensuing tw.enty-four hones, were is-u.c y the Mleteorological Department, LOuiiUR. ?? evening^: IRELAN+D, N.-North-wvesterly wvinds. fren'cttl: and considerabxly naseettledl 5001; C. showers. IRELAND, S.; ENEGLA.ND, SW.X, AN.D Sr.TV: WALTES. -Northerly vwintds, inodszuO(' fresh ; fair genlerally. ...

... i ~T~if BOIJLANGEI{ CONTTEST IN PARIS. set RETURN OFd THE GENER6AL1 53 E :330M OU~t OORIIE;5PONDE3T. PARIlS. SUNOA.&Y 4 P.Mt-The wveather, wvhich a] is ?? SO highlyl important a factor in any ci Parisian event, espcially an election, has been to-b dlay all that couldl be desired, Fog, rain, andl az biting wind have been entirely absent, a nd Ya grenial sunshinle has lighted the streets and ...

... ALAMMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR STOUK I. STOXE, Wi rnninDzo, -'il s nmrolng. while 1three horses belonging to Berry Hill Colliery, Stoke, were drawing Nag-roons along a siding which runs parallel with the railway, the driver perceived the signals were against him, and in turning the horses round a passenger train from Leek dashed ino them, killing the horses and injuring James aGreatrex, the ...

... 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- ...

... (ESTABLISHED ANINO 1737.) - - It is stated that Germany is about to estab- Po lish a ilaval station on the Mediterranean. mc Mr. Carsiv, M.P., was taken before a magis- Lf trate at Kildare yesterday, and remitted to Kuil- kenny to answer the charges against him. St m( The residence of Lord Aberdeen has been be entered by burglars, who carried away a cashbox mi containing about £300. lil .UI ...

... 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 ...