... THE D DEDIRISIH PARTY. MR. PARNELL. Mr. Parnell, addressing a meeting in Tralee on Sunday, said the question as to the concurrent solu- tion of Home Rule and the land question bad come to the front recently, and had been forced upon the attention of the Liberal leaders. They wanted to know what was going to be the Liberal policy, and re- quired a definite answer. The land question was theone ...

... E[FROM TE LOYNDON CORRESPONIDENCE OF TE MANCHESTER EXAMINVER AND TlDES.] An unusually large proportion of the bills and motions of which notice has been given in the House of Commons this session have a more or less direct bearing on the great labour controversies of the day. Mr. Bradlaugh has tabled a resolution disapproving the doctrine of common employment in regard to I employers' ...

... 'Etv el Du-at I LI - An epidemic of measles prevails in Blackbuirn, and it is estimated that there are at least 500 cases. The Bishop of Liverpool on Monday after- noon consecrated the new church of St. Peter, at Warrington. The Waterloo Cup went last week for the third time to Colonel North. His dog Fullerton won, I taking the prize for the second time. A railway shunter at Haslingden sidings ...

... The special correspondent of the Press Association, telegraphing from West Hartlepool on Wednesday, said: As the polingidaygraduallyapproaches within a reasonable distance, the parties are redoubling their efforts. The difficulties of gauging the probable issue of the contest are very great. Both sides are, or profess themselves to be, confident,whilst any attempt to forecast the result by ...

... YESTERDATS' PARLIAIENT. ROULSE OF COMMOONS. i The Speaker took the chair at five minutes past t: three O'clock. , LANOASITRE corxrs cOZCcrL BILL. On the motion for the second reading of the Lanea- X shire County Council Bill, Mr. Courtney said he was v entirely in favour of the principle of the bill, but he v pointed out that the Lan-ashire County Council, like, r others, had no power to ...

... A PPROSPECTIVE FORTUE. Before the Manchester City Stipendiary (Mr. F. J. Headlam), on 'Tuesday, a middle-aged man, giving the name of William Stansfied, was charged with obtaining money by false pretences from Edwin Wakelin, landlord of the Prince of Denmark beerhouse, Hilton-street, city. The prisoner has been lodging in China Lane, Piccadilly, and formed an acquaintance with the prosecutor ...

... DRAGONS BLOOD. A correspondence upon the mysterious uses to which drragon's blood is put is going on in a chemists' journal, Says one correspondent: F or nearly 60 years I have sold dragon's blood, mostly to girls, who, jealous, sought to win hack waning affections by burning it, and using certain wvords of incantation. I know a drnggist who makes large sales of it in the winter time. A ...

... 37Otro anb Q~ueries. - NOES N' OT E S. o THE OLD WATCH. - [163) In the introduiction to his Reminiscences, Mr. Superinteadent Bent tells the following story After I had reacbed the fte at nine vears see went to live in Salord, my lavher being at that time a member ot 1b' 0Old Waticb' in la2nehbeser; so that if not tborn in the | p ftie torte, I may he said to have been nurtured irs itD My ...

... [BY OU7R LADY CONTRTDUTORS.] Charity is an excellent exciuse for kieking over the Itrares of convention and gintng notoriety. PRzactr.-t ad f ans and similar semi-pr IVae alfairsare not sRuTl. cicntly ?? opportunities for display for thte ld -s~ct r n She n Lt take to tracelisn't i;D Africa, or Rushenia, or- some such outlandish parts, or developing tuntsr for skirtdatnring. T wo ladies in a ...

... THE P)-1AL flRISH PARTIES. | ?? MR. PARNiR ...

... rFROM- TE LONDOS CORRESPON)DOCF OF THE MAICH ERT FXAIAIYER AND TIMES] A new art gallery, to supply the place of the now extinct Grosvenor, is to be establishe by Mr. Frange and a syndicate with which he is associated. Its title is to be the Grafton Gallery, and the site is in Piccadilly. It was at first intended to open the new picturs exhibition in May, but it is now deferred until next ...

... As the census returns slowly come to light the growth of great cities is made manifest. In 1881 there were but seven English towns with a population of more than two hundred thousand. Now there are nine, and if there were only thirty more houses let in Salford there would be ten. The ten biggest towns in 1881 remain the ten biggest to-day, and in the same order. The eleventh, however, ...