... J #5(dTAIt DAw o 15737.) . (ESTAB-LISHIM A N.N6 1737.) BELFAST: TUESDAY. APRIL 9, 1889. In the House of Lords yesterday the Earl of Milltown moved that the Larceny Act Amendment (Use of Firearms) Bill be corn- mitted to a committee of the whole House. After an interesting discussion, in which Lord Herschell, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Esher, Lord Bramwell, and others took part, the Bill ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, I _ - ACEN OWGDGMENTS. }!2LF.tsT BOgAT, ?? Treasurer (}t- lY. F. 3faoBlheran) acknoxvledges, VIt thaukre, the receipt of ?? 3d from the emp !Oy oi 1t F. l'homns. Esq. ABrtahuwSprlet8; il Os from the ereu .bf No. 3 hopper dredger; 1 Ssl frlo4= t6de ?? of Sc. 4 hopper drelger; and :1D be e: ioiners cabinetmakexs, yolishers} and upbWolE61;50 d )iarS; WIarlCud Js WRollL PROM ...

... BY OUR} SPECIAL WIRSB 100, Fszew~ ST RUI, LONDON, B.A TuunBDAY MOftNWNG, SIX O-CLOCE. DEFEAT OF THE MiAIIDI. RETREAT TO KHARTOUX. The Moraing Post's Cairo correspondent says- I It is steted amiongst the leading neltives here, and the news is believed to. be ; correct that a foroe of the KhalifaI's troops, under ; Mohammed Bl Kair were defeated, with great L loss, at a place some seven days' ...

... IA ROLAND FOR AIR. MAX O'RLY'S I OLTVER. Mn. BnowrnruL,, an ajute American critic, has added o ne iuore to the huge library of books about France. It is an undertaking only to be excused by success, but will be so excused by French Traits. Mr. Brownell, like Mr. Hainer- ton, is of the new generation of writers of this kind. The method is not to trouble the reader too much with what you think ...

... 1 A KING MES&ERISED OFF HIS THRONE I BY A LAY. THE following letter reeivegreat prominence in the Standard X-SIR-For some time before, and ever since King Milan's renunciation of his throne, it was very common to hear the Servians declare that he had been 'dooed,!' and was not acting as a free agent. His rpost intimato associates and friends assert their firm conviction that lie was not ...

... fTIHE FORTUSNAT ISLES. A CORUEsPONOENT of the Daily T eleqrapA, writ- Ing frodm Las Palmas, gives the following enthu- e3 mastic description of the Oanary Islands :-Iu many It another favortred spot the land and sea may be wedded as sweetly and under the saile benign beno- r diction of the sky. Deep purple, as it is, to its tgfrineof white upon. the rocks. and softly as it -t molts into a pale ...

... BREWERS AND THEE BEER DUTY. LoNDoN, TOESDA¶X-The Central News says:- The Chancellor of the Exchequer will receive a deputation of brewers on the I 3th inst., at two o'clock, in connection with the proposed increase in the beer duty. It is maintained that the altera- tion in the method of charging the duty is equiva. Jent to an inicrese of 2,d per barrel; that thu gain to the revenue wvil], in ...

... PRESBYTERY-OF BELFAST. Turu Belfast Presbytery is appointed to meet in - the lower lecture hall of Rosemary Street Church to-morrow, at eleven o'clock a.m, Ministers who have not forwarded reports on state of religion are requested to do so at once to Rev2'George Shaw or to the clork. The business on the agenda paper is as follows l Report regarding visitation at Newtownbreda; l letter fromt ...

... SECOND E DITIONo BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE B.FAST Nr E5ws.LETTEP. OFFICA, 169, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.a. Tu¢SDAY MORNING, SIX O'CLOCK. LAST NIGHT'S DEBITE. The Yivws says-3ost of the proposals made for reducing votes have no connection whatever either with national finances or with public grieyancte, they are merely pegs upon which the proprietors of a variety of nostrums manag-e to hang muore or ...

... w-putraSt AB.L W5IA 1737 . (ESTABLITSHED ANNOL 1737.) B3ELFAST: THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1889. The Marquis of Hartington, who has since Tuesday been the guest of Mr. Laing, at Sun- derland, yesterday opened a new ward in the hospital there, assisted at the launch of a steamer from his host's, shipbuilding vard, and ad- dressed a conference of Liberal Unionists of the county on the necessity of ...

... LIBERAL UNTONIST CONFERENCE, ab SPEECH BY MR. CHAAMBER 'b L it N. an eV tu in TILE POLICY OF Tltb GOVERIN31MENT. fa de SPECIAL TELEGRAM. to BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY.-.Athreo-dys' con- olt ferenco of Liberal Unionists, representative of i& different parts of the country, was opened in this m city this afternoon with the annual meeting of the in National Liberal Union. The meeting presided ar over ...

... ANNUAL MEETING. d ADDRESS AND PRESENTATION TO MR. HUGH ROBINSON. THE annual general meeting of this society was held last evening, at eight o'clock, in the Museum,e College Square North, when Mr. Hugh Robinson, t the outgoing president, occupied' the chair, and amongst those present were-Revs. H. W. Lett, s Charles Heibert Waddell, and Messrs. Wm. Gray, 'r II Lloyd Praeger, B. E.; John ...