... ; 001&(E t ABLSHD N E1ttt37 (ESTABLISHED AN-NO 1737.) BELFAST WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1889. In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Balfour statod that owing to the condition of public busineas it WaI ?? to pass the Irish Sunclay-oloshlg Bill thissession, Qu8sstions were asked about railway rates, the loos of thle Sultan, the state of Dorry Jail, and othbr sub- jects. The Houwie thfn went into ...

... THE RECENT PARTY DISTURB&NCES IN COOKSTOWN. YESTERDAY, at the petty sessions, before Col. J 0. J. Lowry, V.L.; ?? Gage, R.M.; Messrs.. Jas. flevlin, JRP.; Joseph Falls, J.P.; John Henderson, J.P.; Thos, S. iIagill. J.P.; and John Rickard, J.P.. eleven young mee were charged by the oon. stabulary with having committed assaults on each other on Saturday evening last, as reported in our columns ...

... (ESTABLISIIED ANNO 1737.) Contrary to custom, the House of Lords sat yesterday, when several measures, including the Merchant Shipping (Pilotage) Bill and the Tram ways (Ireland) Bill, were advanced a stage. III the House of C(ommons the Lords' amend- ments to the Light Railways (Iheland) Billwere considered and agreed to. Several matters, soime of them being evidently raised only for the ...

... AND PDIT1ONX- BY OUD FECOAI6r 'WfIH; - . BBtvASr Nswh.LsrhT' i?(>IFc* 169, Fisgr STRnEt, LoNDOn, E.O. MON>DAY 9IonGn, SlX* o'c~ioaKX. SIR F. GRENFELL IN CAIRO. NATIVE OPINION. ! Tbe De fl Newi~ts' Cairodcori es~londenlt ?? r -F. Grenfell and his staff arrived yesterday by river, and bad 'a brilliant reception from the-offitials. The indifference of the-general public wa's, however: veiy marked ...

... T1'Tl1E FATAL AFFRAY AT STONNYFORD I LisBuix?. TTIURMDAY.Y-At the Lisburn petty sessions to-day-before Messrs. T. D. Gibson. RL.;T It. NI. Bland. J.P; and N. W. Grimishaw I.P.-John Bovle and Francis Teocgue were put |i forward in custody on the charge that they did, Cr onl the 27th of July. 1889. at Isiandkelly, in the County of Antrim. unlawfully and feloniously kill in and slay one James ...

... 1THE QUEEJN IN WALES. ALARMHING ACCIDENT. FALL OF A GRAND STAND. LivERPOOL, MONDAY.-Fine weather favoured the Royal visitors to Wales to-day. Before luncheon the Queen drove in a pony phaeton through the grounds of Pale, the clear atmosphere giving excellent views of Snowdon and other mountain ranges. Luncheon being over, her Ma- jesty drove a couple of miles up the valley of the Dee to ...

... THE HOfJNYWOOD FORE- SHORE, Tnz condit~em of the Hotysvood foreshore has for some yeags been ratheri;4 vexed question, but, although it! has oocupia'a considerable attention from time (o time, nriring in the shape of a per- manent retaedy haspas yet been applied to it, and there ap/ears to be %jbonsensns of opinion amnon gst all conefirerd. that i(e time has come when some- thing 'Iof a ...

... I | FROM OUR qORRESPONDENTs. S 2 ,THE NILE CAMPAIGN. .: b SHOT FOR TREASON. V 0 CAMRO, SA.TURDAY.-It has transpired that the p principal medical officers cast half of the bat- 3 talion of the Borderers as unfit for service, they n either being too 1 weedy or too young, otherwise b the whole battalion would have gone to the front, c and many of them to die like rotten sheep. i V CAlnO, ...

... . * ,. ?? BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE. 7- BELFAST NE-WS-LETTER OFFICE, 169, FLEET STREET, R.C., THURSDAY INIGHT, ALrTuOucIr Mr. M,-atthews refused to take the House Of Cenunons into his confidence to-night as to the advice he felt it his duty to tender to her Majesty in regard to the Maybrick poisoning case, rr at the time of writing, it is stated. with some show of authority, that the convict's ...

... I YIIOX OtR CORlESlPONiDENTS. Tsnr ALLGlO CASE ov TYPErOID FEVRtn NEAR DRAPEuS'roww.-Dr. Burke and Dr. O'Farrell. from the Local Government Board, arrived in Draperstown, and drove out on a car to the resi- deuce of Rose Trainer, at Brackalislea, who is suf- fering from typhoid fever, alleged to have been contracted in Derry Jail.4 The patient was in a very prostrate statle, and the medical ...

... B1 A A BY SgEiCIAL AND OQDIAPy . HOSE OF LeRls YESTERDAY. THE, LORD CHANCELLnIR took his 5ea, sack at a quarter-past ithr. iio the THE MLETROPOLITAN\ ELfLroTj BlLtlv. ' ...

... I . _ _ - ?? ElVART MEMORIAL CHURCH. w TIT? ?? OF THE BELFAST RRWS-LETTER. ,in-I have seen the letters which appeared recently in your paper making suggestions as to the forc which a memorial to the late Sir William Egwart. Bart., DI.P., should take. and I am still a~ngl ~of opinion that none could be more fitting. as none is more needed, than a memorial church: I 'm10 glad to say that the ...