... ITLHE- DREFUS-- AFFAIR. JAIL GOVERNOR'S REPORT.. STATENTS BY THE PRISONERM (escrAL TESEGRnAt TO STANDARD OF TO-DAY.) - Paris, April 16. The Eclair yesterday published the monthly report of M. Deniel, the military chief of the Iles du SaInt, where Dreyfus is a prisoner, for the pertod. included between. the 26th of October and the 295th of November, 1898. As the journal remarks, this is ...

... THIE CESSION OF THE C.A.ROLIXE10s. (EcrEar TELEGBA.) Madrid, Jurne 8. The draft treaty vith Germany relating to the cession of the Carolinas, the Pelews, and the Marianuaes was read at yesterday's Cabinet' Council. Sencr Silvela, in an interview with the Madrid ccrrespou'ent of the Lokalaazeiger, is re- presented to have stated that the adoption of tse Carlines Treaty by the Cortes was ...

... 6uogol tAFraze. In the House of Lords yesterday the -Edin- burgh Corporation Bill was read a second time and the Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Bill a third time. The second reading of the Oysters Bill, which had for its object the im- provemeut of the sanitary surroundiings of the oyster, was moved by Lord Harris and agreed to. Other measures advanced included the third reading of the ...

... ' WEEKLY PAYS ON THE CLYDF. TIEWOR:KING ARRANGE3-IEIS. i Thc Clyde shipbuiling and engineerirg em- .ployers have -now made all their arrangements with regard to the year's trial of weekir payment of wages, which begins at the end of this mcnthrt1- and they have posted in their shops a not-irse giving in detail the times annd methods they pro- pos . gdontin in carrying out the ' c-.pernren. 1t ...

... BRITAIN AND RUSSIA IN CH1NA. A Biltish Consul-General on the ?? Agreement. A representative of Reuter's Agency has bad an interview with Mr George Jamieson, ?? t who has lately retired from the post of British 2 Consul-Generals at Shanghai after 35 years' work f in China. Discussing the Anglo-Russian agree- ment, Mr Jamieson said:- 5 The agreement is undoubtedly a step in the right direction. ...

... I F THE DREYFUS AFFAIR. 1= LETTER FROM ESTERIAZY. A PETITION FOR THE ARMY. hi (SPRTaL TELEGRA3U TO STANDARD OF TO-DAT.) SE Paris, May 14, Night. ol It is now gererally believed that the decision o, of the Court of Cassation in. the Dreyfus case h will be given early in June. It is most probable ni that this decision will be favourable to the de-I mand for revision, and it is possible that the ...

... Operations have been going on for a consider- able time on the Glasgow end South-Western. Railway in connection with the extension of St Enoch Station. The pressure of traffic has been growing in recent years and the scheme of alteration es very elaborate. Though it will be a good while before the work reaches completion, it is progressing rapidly. The alterations will add considerably to the ...

... SCHiOOL BOARD OF GLASGOW'. ' 1Th rerfthliy meeoting Ce the School Board of Glasgow- vwas hao.ld yesterday ?? ,fr-hp- 2 Cfison h btelmrr-or, s!it cilairman, pee- School Atendarioce. The Vice-Chairman (Mr William Mitchell reportoti that the num..ber of scholars at the 68 1 pubhic sei-%cls on Wed-oc-dsay the 3Ith ?? ro;} 74,052 and in attendance 65,217, being 'S per cent. of the number on the ...

... LETTERS TO -THEE EDITOR I ~ ~ ~ ~ , THE SOCIE1TY OF oT T NCENT DE S., .--Ycur PAUL. Sir--Yotur corresnondentt Charit, nmay weil b oe oonuplimented *. the disguise he assuMes. Tohea sm cannot be said f him when ihe ventures to note UzananM, vol. viii.. p. 45. His reudering i=-- ' Oor chief object is not to assist the poor. Our onject is to ?? them (the poor) Eteadfast in the Catholic ...

... FAIRS AND STOC SALBS. GPREENOCX.-Vees= Young & Gillies held a Speclat sale of all classes of store larbs yesterday. along with. their weekly sae of dairy stock; The number of la)n-b I forward was not so lage as expeced. sevral loft being held over till next saLe. _ here was a large attendance of farers and dealers, both local and from a, distance. Lambs in condition woold be maling lost years ...

... LAUNCH OF A CUNARDER ON THE TYKE. There vwas lannchecd from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs Swan & a1Hunter, Wallsend-on-1I Tyne, vosterday afternoon, a finely modelled steamer for the Cunard Steamship Company (Limited). The vessel was launched ia a markedlv successfuli manner, and was named Ivernia by the Countess of Ravensworth. The event caused immense interest throughout ship- building ...

... I Annual Meeting at Berwick. The statutory annual meeting of the River T-weed Commissioners was held in the King's Arms Hotel, Berwick, yesterday. 'Major-General Sir Willism Crossman, ?? Cbesvwick;, chairman of the Police Committee, presided, and there were also ?? Richard Waldie Griflith, Bart. of Hendersyde Park, Kelso; Colonel David Milnno Home of Wedderlburn, Mr D. H. W. Askew of ...