... REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. TURKEY AAND THE ARMENTANS. CONSTANTINOPLE, SATURDAY.-Efforts continua to be made to bring about the resignation or Monsignor 1amirlian, the Armenian Patriarch lie, however, declines to recede from the positionr which he has taken up. The reply of the Porte to the proposals of the Zeitun insurgrents was comlmfu. nicated to the Embassies to-day. It is of such a nature as to ...

... I | Drnwae, TRHISDA-Y NIGH'. -The Earl of Cadogan held his first Levee in Dublin Castle to- dav. The attendance, a record one in point of numbers, revived memories of the palmiest days of the Court of Dublin. Ireland's nobility and landed gentry drove to the Castle in splendid equipages, as in the days of yore. The professional and mer- cantile classes were fully represented, and the mili- ...

... Duuymv, FDWAy NiG'r. en th The Government Land Bill is occupying the at- hi tention, not only of the Chief Secretary and the Si, Attorney-General for Ireland. but of the Land- hi owners' Association and the various tenant de- ar fence associations throughout the country. Any s ; light that can be thrown by preliminary discus- 31 sion on moot points is. therefore, likely to be f, advantageous. ...

... LIFE IN AMERICAS THE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY COMX ISSION. THE CURRENCY QUESTION. BY CABLE. PROM OUR OWN CORRSFPONDPIM Nmw Yarn, FERmAD.-Widespread and profound regret has been aroused by the announcement of the demise of the Rev. William H. Furness, D.D. Dr. Furness had attained the venerable age of ninety-three years, and had led a wholly En- blemished life. He had long been identified with ...

... (ESTABLISHED A-\-NNE 1737.) - .48-tt~fiat iouhS- ('WIa BELFAST: WEDNESDAY. FEBRUTARY 19, 1.896. In the House of Lords yesterday Lord Mac- naghten presented a bill for the amendment of the law relating to soldiers in Ireland, and it was read a first time. On the motion of the Earl of Morley, the usual committees were appointed. The House adjourned at twenty-five minutes to five. -In the House ...

... His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. as Grand Master, will hold (bv her Majesty's command) a Chapter of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint 'Patrick at Dublin Castle on Tuesday, 25th Febru- ary. At ten oclock p.m. his Excellency will pro- ceed in State, attended by his household, staff, and pages of honour, through St. Patrick's Hail to the chair of State at the head of the Chapter table, the ...

... I DuaBN THUESDAY NiGnrT. The observations and comments made in this column on the recent appointment of residenti magistrates have attracted a good deal of atten- tion. It is certain that great indignation prevails among the members of the Bar at the fact that the claims of practising barristers have been ignored. This is not to be wondered at, seeing the dearth of legal business, and that ...

... DYNAMITE DISASTER Al i IOJOANNESBURG. HUNDREDS KILLED AND IXJPREh THE RECOYIRY 0P BEDWM THE SCEINV AT THE Xi0i¶ART JOHANNSBUR, THUSDDAY.-It was at Vtie- dendorp, a densely populated suburb, between Fordburg and Braatfontein (inhabited chiefly by poor whites, Malays, Kaffirs, and Chinamen), that the explesion occurred. Eight trucks loaded w vith dynamite were being shunted on the Tether, lands ...

... (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) I$2ii t5ttt ?? There was no business before the House of Lords yesterday, and it adjourned after a quarter of an hour's sitting. In the House of Commons, in reply to Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Balfour said papers would be issued on Mondav showing the views expressed by the Government relative to any change in the administration of Asiatic Turkey. Questions were also asked ...

... THE WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED NEWS- PAPERS. THEE QuEarte-This well-illustrated paper con- tinues to provide a great deal of most interesting articlesfor its readers, and the pictures arealways of a high class The frontispiece this week is Athlete strangling a Python.' from a sculpture by the late Lord Leighton. On page 223 there are reproduc- tions of some principal pictures by the same artist. ...

... (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) c1i~ 'WI5Xctr BELFAST: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1896 The Flying Squadron will sail for Berehaven to-day. An explosion occurred at Avignon on Friday last, and two men were injured. The Independent Labour party have decided not to contest the Montrose Burghs. Samuel Abrams, a resident of London, died in a railway carriage near Crewe on the evening of the 7th instant. An ...

... .T (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BctV1t ' BELFAST: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1896- ir- Twn men were killed on last Friday night bv the fall of a scaffold at Oldbury. A letter of Mr. Gladstone's appeared in a a Fren namer of vesterdavia which he exnressed himself in favour of the evacuation of Egypt by the British. A railway collision occurred in Belgium on Friday last, and ten persons were severely in- ...