... j9E UNIVERSAL ADOPTION OF ELECTPIICITY. (yROl OTR SXIC±tn COBRESONfl'Th) The action of the Glwasgow Corpora-tion in de- ?? yesterday on the adoption of t'he over- bead system of electric traction for all the tram- a in Glasgow is most important. No less important is thestatemcntof MrYounglaid the d'tsr day be-ore the 1Tram-wayc Committee, of :.ne fiancial results d9ovn almost to date of he ...

... THIl RD EDITION. IAIDo OnrC, 5.15 A.M. I DREYFUS INQUIRY. I MAJOR ESTERRAZY CITED. I ?? FURTHER ISCLOSURIES. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TEE: STANDAR.D or ! ?? ) | I Paris January 5, Night. It is stated to-day that the inquiry wlich is being made by the Court of Cassation concerning i the Dreyfus affair will be concluded before the end of the month. In the meantime the Court was again to-day occupied ...

... FLASH POINT OF BURNING I OIL. SPEECH BY MR ALEXANDER UBE, M.P. b Last nigght M~r Ure, Q.C., MYP., addressed his T B3roxhurn constituents, when be deal t exolu- 13 jively with the question of the dlash point it nI oils. The- hall was packed. M%.r Free- ;4 lend occupied the chair, and beside lhim ii on the platform were representatives from the I' 'VI Liberal Associations of Batbgate, Bo'ness, ...

... OIC ?? ABOUT TIRE ST*OM. l TWO MIEN LOST FrROMf A SCHOONER t Lloyd's CardiLf correspondent states that the- schooner Acorn. from Dungarven, has put into the WVest Dock with bulwarks gene, decks swept, and loss of two men. ACCIDENT TO A GLASGOWl V7ESSEL. I A telegram from Boachy. Head states that the steamer Wesx'rland, Now York to AntwerP, pass- ing east, signalled - The Blairgowrie. of Glas- ...

... THEil EARLY ESCOTTr511 CIItR~tCl. In a lecture to his class yesterday, Professor !Cue-per, in cornection with the work of St Alar- |Faret, toolk up the charges brought againast her of having Romanised the Scottish Church oF her day. The wvork of St _Margaret, he said. ha d becn-called the no tmanising of the Scottish Church. Tiat 'was not the Aact truth, hut only. ons little aspect oF wlhat ...

... EDUCATION-LIGHT FROM AMERICA. Orre-ofthemosgttinulating, if not also the most I g instructiv, of the numerous documents that have ti been compiled in. this country in the interest of I higher, and specially of technical education, is f a report to the Technical Instruction Committee 5 of Mlanchester Cit- Council on a visitppasd by the h director and secretary of the commiittee to tech- nical ...

... THE QUEEN IN TPE ISLE OF WICH4T. I (FROU TRI: MU1JT r:CIRLkE.) Oshorno, Wednesday The Queen drove out yestarelay afternoon,, attended by the Hon. Harriet Phipps and the Hon. liae 'Majendie. | Her bajeesty went out this morning, accom- panied by Her Royal Highness Princess Henry! of Battenber. The Duchess of Roxburgh arrived yesterday, [ard has succeeded the Countess of Lytton as Lady-in ...

... i LETTER FROM MR A. J. BALFOUR. AN IMPSITANT- STATEMENT ON IRISH DENOMlNATIOM1AL TEACHING.* (PRESS ASSO5ATIGON TETSOSAr.l) L London,. Jamiary 25, Evening. The following important letter has been ad- dressed by Mvr Balfour to one of his constituents in 'Manchcster in acknowledgment of the com- munication of a resolution on the subject of ; Protestantisem and university education in Ire- L land. ...

... I THE BARKING DIS STERL COROI1PflS INQVEST. Mr Coroner Baxter resumed the inquest at Ponilar Hospital yesterday on the bodies of James Thornton and John Sullivan, victims of the ex- plosion at M;Uessrs Hewett's works at Barking. MTI Wi. H. Seal, one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Factories, attended. Medical evidence was that, Thornton had a severe wound in the front of the head, the left arm ...

... I LABOER AFFAIRS. I MINERS, FEDERATION OF GREAT BRITAIh if CONYhRXNCE IN ED1S13V1RGH. The anunal confereance, of the M~iners' Federa- - tion of Great Britain was opened in the Odd- fellows' Hall, Forrest Road, Edinburgh, yester- 4 day-the president, Mr B. Pickard, MB., in the - chair. There were between 50 and 60 delegates present representing the following districts in the Federation ...

... .ECOLEBSIASTICAL. I A GT.Ascow0 Mss-sEi'r. IN NEWr Z ?? e JRcv. _Walter Smith. formerly misSionarv- assistant in connection with St George's Road Free Chur-h. G~lasyos, who a year ago wvas appointed by he C0onnial Committee of thie Free Chu'rch to take cjharge of lhe congregation of JIuntly. in New i Zealand. and who shcrtly after landing in the I colony received at call to the congregation ...

... 1??- I I (545-s-ox, ?5mljk 1 F WEDNESDAY, JASUARY 18. Mr John Morley last night addressed his| constituents at Brechin. Referring to Sir | William Harcoort's resignation, he said that no nman could continue to lead a party when his authority was nxposed to question direct and indirect. He entirely concurred with Sir I William's view. As to himself, he had no i rcsignation to tell them of, ...