... A STABiSt ,'Y\O173.) (E0STABLISHtED A. N-N-0 17 37.) x The House of CommonsGrand Committee on| Trade wvas again occupied yesterday with the consideration of the Light Railaways (Ireland) Bill. Aln effort was made to pus down the Giadstonian obstruction, led by AMr. Storey, and considerable progress was made with the bill. At a dinner given in Berlin yesterday, in honour of the Emperor of ...

... THE NAVAL MAN4EUVRES. o'LONDoic, TUESDAY.-The vessels of the defen- sive fleet in the Downs are all cleared for action, and none of the crew are allowed to leave. Some of the torpedo boats will cruise eastward to-day. Last night there was a false alarm at Tynemouth, and the volunteers turned out expecting an attack from the hostile squadron. Submarine mines are laid. A telegram from Sheerness ...

... THE FUTURE OF IRISH CONSER- VATISN OUTSIDE ULSTER. PAnT II. E FlnOS A TIMES CORfESPO?WDENr. LE rl now see what Constitutional organisations Dev in actual existence at the present moment out- f side flster. In Dublin the oldest political club is c ise Constitutional Club. It was formerly a power t le the city, worked the poor law, municipal, and t rliarmentary registration for the party. and c ...

... BY SPECIAL AND ORDINARY WIRES. HO0USE OF LORDS, YESTERDAY. THE LOItD CHANCELLORt took his seat upon the woo]eack at half-past four o'clock. POST OFFICE SITES. The Post Office Sites Bill, which has been brought in for the purpose of enabling the Post Office to acquire the site of the Coldbath Fields Prison at Clerkenwoll, for use in connection with the Parcel Post, passed the committee stage. ...

... BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE. B FLPAST NEWS -LETTER OFFICR, 169. FrLtT STREET, E.C., WEDNSDsAY NrnwrT. THE same tactics that were pursued in reference to the select committee on the Irish estates of the T London companies have been carried out by the t minority of members on the grand committee on d trade dealing with the Light Ramilways (Ireland) d Bill. Mr. Storey and his friends, in cousequence ti ...

... 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 ...

... lTfOFWA GOTEM no FROM2-OlYE I, flD C Oi.7!tsPOSN^Nt tof Lto2Zi, SAtUibAY. IF it were not for the periodical'alls of the post man bringing letters frfm' distant fi'itns, Ldndorn life Would be barren-of eventsa T eexceptionally Ti gay season which has' just closed naikes the still- ali en ness of the present tlmelmore' rmniarkAsble. Not 05) that desbrted Londo$f is by amy nIebn&a: dreary ho ...

... 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 ...

... I SWUcIALL7Y REPSRTETD BY OUR OWE I CORRIE5PONDENrT. SITEnIaJb,7 MONDAY. - The personnel of the Conference had undergone a remarkable change since Saturday. Coloured ties and bright suits are sprinkled very freely among the black coats of the clerical brethren. Another thing wvhich strikes us is that there is much more orderliness and quietude in the Conference, whether it will last longm we ...

... AN A MERICAN TEMPERkNCkE TOUR, I ; T OUR SPECIAL CORRhESPONDENiT. FLEET STREET, LONDON, JULY 31.-Now our scamper is done, and the familiar sights and sounds of this mighty London are once more substituted, and all the accustomed daily duty, for the novelty of travel and the changing scenery of continent and of sea. Still the recollections of the past weeks, of their occupations, and of tbe ...

... Wgftfailt ABl wD 1737t.t |(ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFA.ST: FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1889. The Light Railways (Ireland) Bill was read. a first time in the House of Lords yesterday. The second readying of the Post Office Sites Bill was passed. The Cotton Factories Bill was read a second time, as, was also the Coinage (Light Gold) Bill. In the House of Commons yesterday Sir J. Fcrgusson stated, in ...