... - ?? [fUER'S TELEGRAMS.] I GERMANY AND SAMOA. BERLIN, FRIDAY. Tne ?? -_N f'r fman seeking to avoid a, debate in the Reichstag on w o wldl give every facility for the discussion of gi that question. ?? AUSTRIA. H T VIENNA, FRIDAY. tc T'ra authorities were able yesterday to relax some tc of the military precautions which they had taken o QWring to the disturbances in connection with the I et ...

... THE PARNELL COMMISSION4 OPENING OF THE DEFENCE. SPEECH OF SIR GRAiS. RUSSELL. TUESDAY.-Szxn-To'orRXT DAY. I The Commrissioners-Swr James Hannen Prtsidfflt), Mr. Jtistice Day, and -Mr. Justice Smith-entered 'the court on Tuesday morning at 10 30. The leading counsel for the Parnellite members took their seats in the court shortly after a quarter past ten. On the i Commissioners taking their ...

... -Grncrd ge5ts h . Mr. James Foulds, an es-mayor of Burnley, died at Southport on Monday, at the age of 74. Considerable damage was done by fire late on Mondayt night at thenagle Brewery Wrexham. 'On Wednesday evening Mr. Broadhurat was the guest at a house dinner of the National Liberal Club.,I -The death is announced of Mr. Henry Swan, cu~ator of St. George's Museum at Wyalkley, Sheffield, ...

... [TnROGH REfUTER S AGENCY.] THE SITUATION IN FRANCE. XREANGEMEN-TS FOR THE BOU LANGER PARTS, FRIDAY. q-nate this morning elected the Commission of *ho will conduct the judicial esamination ; c,.used in the High Court of Justich. It is * a; follows Senat'ors 'Merlin, Cazot, rariexns, Munier, -Marcere, Denmole, Laver- 1t,,llet, and Viep-President Hiumbert. .'!farrujat, Dusolier, Develle, Rozieres ...

... IRELA~.- I ~I P.E L.A ND. I THE OLPEERT EVICTIONS. PROSECUTION OF MR. CONYBEARE, M.P., jj AND MR. H. HARRISON. R The hearing of the charges against Mr. Conybeare, a M.P, and Mr. H. Harrison, of Balliol ColleS Oxford was begun on Thursday. Several Irish .L ?? and 51 great, many English visitors attended in court during the hearing of the cases. Mr. Mackey, Crown a solicitor, prosecuted, and Mr. ...

... I I WA&GES IN THE IRON TRADE. A meeting of the Board of Arbitration forthe North of England Manufactured Iron Trades was hold at Darlington on Monday, when it was stated that efforts to induce the workmen to adopt a sliding scale for two years had been sutocessful. The operative representa- tives of the various works except two, voted for the scale, which was higher on the average prices per ...

... LORD HARTINGTON AT SUINDERLAND. ALARMING PLATFORMNI ACCIDENT. s The Marquis of Hartington visited Sunderland on e Wednesday for the purpose mainly of addressing a e public meeting. In the forenoon his lordship was to have laid the memorial stone of the Hartley wing Iof the Sunderland Infirmary. but owiug to an 3alarming accident he was not able to do so. In the grounds in front of the new ...

... STATEMENT BY MR. G. H. TNDERWOOD. A meeting of the newly-elected members of the Gorton Local Board was hetd at Gorton on Tuesday night, when a subject was discussed that has attracted considerable interest in that district. Mr. Lloyd Higginhottom was elected chairman, receiving six votes, or two more than Mr. Buckley. A deputation, consisting of the Rev. H. A. Noel (St. Clement's, Longaight), ...

... COMMUTATION OF PARTON'S SENTE'NCE I The following communication from the Home Secre- tary, in reply to the petition prayng for a commuta- tion of the sentence passed on Charles Parton was received through the post by Mr. William Burton, the convict's solicitor, on Saturday mornima.- Secretary of State, Home epartment, Whitehall, 5th April, 1889. Sir,-I am directed by the Secretary of. ...

... HEAVY PENALTY, I Before the Manchester Stipendiary (If. 1?. J. i Readlam), yesterday, and Mr. R. A. rmitage, a German named Frederick Schlomeyer, the tenant of a house at 68, Upper Brook street, known as the Teutonia Club, was summoned for unlawfully selling by retailcertanrintoxcathng liquors contraryto sectionI 3 of the Licensing Act of 1872.g- *tir. N. Cobbert con- ducted the prosecution on ...

... 1:KA' plfw . - The death is announced of Mr. Warren de la Rue, F.R. S., the well-known astronomer. The bazaar in aid of the Burnley Lane Reform Club, Ruitnlgy, realised a total of about £1,000. Mr. Alderman R. S. Newall, of Ferndene, Gateshead, one of thepioneers of ?? died on Sunday. Part of Barne's farm, Woodham Ferris, Essex, has been destroyed by a fire caused by children plays ing with ...

... TUE PROPOSED INFECTIOUS DISEASES EOSPITAL FOR SALFORD. GOVERNMENT INQUIRY. On Isl~day an inquirv directed bytheLocalGoven*- anrnt Board in relation to the application of the S~aliord Corporation for sanction to borrow £13,101 3 f- r the purchase of a site for a new infectious diseases fra'rtial, evas held at the Salford Town Hall. The t C'rporation hate taken this step in consequence of the f ...