... EN G LAN D 'S i 0 M ES We boast of the homes of England-stately and, especially, otherwise-but few of us know I how many actual houses there are in this country. All round the outskirts of our large towns-Lon- don especially-the builders are building new houses so fast that one begins to wonder df all 0he old ones elsewhere have been burned down. In Great Britain there are now 7,340,096 heuses ...

... I A STEAMER WRECKED. SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE FEARED BY CABLE. FROM OME OWN CORRESPONDENT. ,INsw yeOR, SuNDAY.-The movemmnt in the Southernt states to disfranchise the negroes 1s so rapidly progressing as to justify the prediction that in the course of a year not one of the old slave-holding Statis but will have enacted special provisions for \heir State Constitutions abolishing the negro vote. ...

... LORI TEMPLETOWN'S REPLY. The following is Lord Templetown's reply to the resolutions of the convention: - DEAR MR. WILZuS-I am much obliged for your letter, posted on 27th inst., which confirms the re- solutions I saw in the Irish Times of the 16th inst., and would ask you to offer my best thanks to the executive committee of the Irish Landowners' Convention for their invitation to ...

... I TILE POSITION IN THE PHILIPPINES PROPOSED PAN-AMERICAN EXHIBITIONG EXECUTION FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY. BE CAELR. FROT OUR OWN OORRESPONDEnT. NEw YoRx, FneDt.-It is announced that a syndicate has secured an option on 30,000 acres of land at Clay City, Illinois, upon which it is pro- posed to settle 500 French families. The idea is that the colonists shall introduce into this country their native ...

... I SUPPOSED LOSS OF LIFE. NARROW ESCAPE OF A SHIELDS CREW. Information -was received at Dover on Saturday last of two serious collisions, both of which hap- pened off Dover, and resulted in the sinking of two vessels. In one case the masts of a vessel were seen soon after daybreak standing slightly above the water, about a mile and a half front the shore. No information could be obtained of the ...

... A SUNDAY S1HOOL TEACH1ER AND HIS FRIENDS. A well-known Sunday school teacher has told an impressive and interesting story to the representa- tive of a newspaper. As might have been expec- ted, we learn from this paper (the Dean Forest Mercury) that his character is of the highest. He has instructed a successful class, and his word can be thoroughly relied upon. The young man al- luded to is ...

... BELFAST WOMEN'S TEMNPERANCE ASSOCIATION. A large number of ladies of the above association met at 3, Lower Crescent. on Saturday last, to hear Mrs. M'Alery give an account of the nature of the Inebriates Act, 1893. This she did in a dlear, succinct, and effective manner. Airs. Byers gave a graphic picture of what she saw of the working of three homes in England at once placed by diffe- renrt ...

... ,di1 r eLONIAL SFCRE'fARYa IN> DUBLIN,. gjoNoUlR FROM T9tINITY COLLEGE. 1LIIvEL OF LL.D. CONi'Pl PR ED. A CIIAIIhCI~LISlIIC SPEECH. 1~' OUR I-EvorjEet. ?? 5. on-' .u--he sole topics of cnversa- , ?? art. the vtsit of the Colonial , it iitinelit of Fiet'l-Mad l .1 ect oVrmittonS in South Africa. l. h1n1iourrb'ba Joseph ClaMnber- thLi,-, r yesterday by all atr'nit 1 - ., ?? in Irefod Pihce; but ...

... - p AS A3LENDED IN CO-MMITTEE. Parts 1. to V. of this bill -were published yester- day, and we give the remaining parts to-day. PART VI.-LANDS. 26.-Subject, to the provisions of this act, the, Corporation may outer upon, take, and use all or any of the lands shownm onl the deposited plans, and described in the deposited book of reference, Iwhich they may require for thre purposes of this act.. ...

... iIMPERIAL PARJJIA ENAT.| IBY PRIVATE' AND ORDINARY WIREES. HlOUSE OF' LORDS, YESTERDAY. The Lord Charncelldr took his seat at a quairter- pa~st four. BEW BILL. Lord BALvFOUR? introduced a. bill, whvich wvas react a first time, rto amiend the Congested Districts (Scotlan~d) Acts SCOTCHI PUTBLICA LIBRARIES. The Public Libraries (Snooland) Actis Amend- mnent Bill wras, on thie motion of the Earl ...

... COUNTY BOROUGSH OF BELFAST. The electric committee of the Council of this borough met at the Town Hall yesterday, with Councillor Robert Thompson in the chair. Ten- ders for the foundations for engines and boilers were opened, and the tender of 'Messrs. J. & V. I Stewart was accepted. Councillor Dawson asked that the mains extension in the 3Mountpottingcr district should be completed as soon ...

... Few Irish watering-places are progressing as rapidly as Bangor. Year by year it is extending its borders in W1 directions, and the period covered by 'the past twelve months has not been any ex- ception to the general rule. A large number of villas and terrace houses have recently been erected along all the leading roads radiating from 'the township. A great many of 'these have already been ...