... AFFAIRS IN CHINA, DIRECTORATE OF THE NORTHERN RAILWAY. . BRITISH PRESTIGE THREATENED. PRESS ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPECIAL. PEniN, FEBBUARY 20. - The difficulties arising out of the question of the directorate of the Northern Railway, of which the abrupt dismissal of Hu Qu Fen, chief director, was the immediate cause, ha-ve gradually increased, and now the situation has become so acute that it ...

... ARRIVAL OF | BULGARIAQ THE f 1 A TERRIBLE VOYAGE. MANY OF THE PASSENGERS AND CREW INJURED, (PRESS ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPECIAL) Ponta Delgada, Feb 24th._ The overdue Hamburg American liner Bul- geri arrived safely in this port to-day. Her officers report. that on Febru ay 5th she listed to the port side 49 degrees. Her pumps were - inefficient to keep her bold free from water, end the vessel ...

... To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.' Dear Sir-I certainly have no desire, if I could possibly avoid it, to bring into prominence before the public the tactics followed for the past eight months on the Managerial Question by the majority of the clique who form what is called the Dublin Committee, but desperate diseases require desperate remedies; and from the knowledge I have acquired of ...

... I FRANICE AND ENGLAND. THE LEASING OF A COAMING STATION. ENGrSRH THREAr TO BOM BARD 'VIUTSC AT, (PRESS ASSOCIATION FORWON SPECIAL4) Ensbasy, Feb 23. ThlPersian Gulf wail arrived this afternoon brl)o(ght a deapatcb to the Times of India, containing important details of the recent in- cident at Muscat. It states that the news of the treaty grabting a coaling station to France first leaked out ...

... LItFE IN ANERICA. THE WASHINGTON CELEBBATIONS SURGEON DALY AND THE COMMISSARIAT. DEPARTURE OF MR. CHOATE. Is BY CABLE. FROM1 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. NEW YoJac, WsmNExsDAY.-To-day being the an-C niversary of Washington's birthday weas, in accord- ...

... CoRRESPOND ENCE. THE UNIVEESITU QUESTION. To THE EDITOR OF THE BELFAST NEVsS-Li.trER. Si-More than a week has elapsed since the appearance of my letter on this thorny subject in your columns. The river of controversy which it called forth, and which, for a time, surged along in full and angry flood, seems to be running dry, only a few tiny runnels being now heard trickling through the Press. I ...

... ELECTION INTELLIGENCE ROTHERHAM DIVISION-REDUCTION OF THE SEPARATIST MLJORITY. The result of this election was declared yester- day, as folows:- Holland (S.) ?? 6,671 Wagge (U.) ?? 4,714 Majority . ?? -1,957 Previous results:- 1895-Mr. Acland ?? unopposed. 1392-Aoland (S. .6,567 Foljambe (U.) .. . ?? 2,839 Mjeity . - 3,728 1886-scland (S.) ?? ?? 5,155 Foejainbe (U.) . . 2,070 Majority . , 3 ...

... COURT AND FASH1IO. THE COURT. WnL3son CAsnz, SaTuRDAYv-The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Dowager Lady Ampthill and the Honourable Hariet Phipps. Earl Beauchamp, Governor of New South Wales, and Lord Tennyson, Governor of South Austraiia, arrived, and were severally introduced to her Ma- jesty's presence by the Lord-in-Waiting, when the Queen conferred upon them the ...

... (BY SPECIAL EraS.) FannxAN OFFICE, Tm-MRSDAY M;TOsISG. HALLF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK. BIG ORDER FOR RAILS. The -'Daily Mail's Odessa corresporiden ?? order for 5,OCOOQO ped. (about E0,000 tons) of rails for the Mauchaw rian Bails ay, bas gone to a firm of Nortih Ame- rican manufacturers. The price for the tails quoted by the American firm which secure I the order was 57 copecks (about ls 7d) per ...

... COURT AND F'ASHRON. THE COURT. WINDSOR C.SLEL1, WEnDNESDAY.-The Queen and her Royal Highness Princess Henry of Battenberg drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Honoumrable Harriet Phipps. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dnchess of York's three children arrived at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty The Dowager Lady Ampthi1ll, who has suc- ceeded Viscoantess Downe as Lady-in ...

... CLOSE OF THE INQUIRY. Yesterday morning at 11 o'clock the Commis- sioners resumed the examination of witnesses at their rooms, Great Brunswick street. The : Right Hon the Lord Chief Baron, Chairman, 'presided; and the other Commnisstoners..prssn:lt ?? Right Hon Mr Justice Madden, the Provost of Trinity College, the Right Hon The O'Conor Don, the Rev Dr W6' Todd Martin, and Dr D G Rarkley; with ...

... TfZ LA NDLORDS' PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. To those who believe, or affect to believe, that the land war is over in Ireland we com- mend the speeches and resolutions at the Landlords' Convention. As the tenants' agitation wanes the landlords' waxes and grows fierce. It is ade to pass without comment the aburd contention of the Duke of Abercorn that because the cassesm would have the certainty ,of a ...