... ?LA STERE R S' DISPUT&e | BIG LOCK-OUT BEGINa. Friday night saw the last fainthonseof any compromise abandoned, by the offi- cial return of the result of the ballot of the operative plasterers on the general question of submitting to the demands of the National Association of Master Builders. The action of the council of the plas- terers was confirmed by 10,211 votea &gainst 36, while the ...

... THE UNITED &INGDOX LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS [FROM OUR OWtN COgRZOPONDENTSJ BARNSLEY. This morning Mrs. Rebecca Roabuck4 aged 27, died at Beckett hospital from shocking in uries received by burns on Feb. 24. She was preparing the ovenfor bakinr whuet her clothes became ignited, and she was severely burnt about the head acnd face. H er screams brought two neiglhbours to her assistance, bat sti ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORR MPAnR'lvT (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL. -Resident Manager, Mr W. F. Mor- ?? a most successful week of grand opera, Mr Morton rings the changes this week with a stirring melodrama from the pen of Ben Landeck, A Soldier i and a -an. The play is very well constructed, and is a notable for a strong and healthy sentiment that pre-s vails. Miss Naomi Neilson and Mr ...

... -ILES TRUANDS, Drama, in Five Acts, in Verse, by Jean Richepin Produced at the OddQn, on Wednesday, March 22d. Robin Costeau ?? M. DECORt Jehan De Conflan ?? CORNAG.LA Thibault ?? M JANvIEa Ifichault ?? ?? M. DORIVAL Estouteville ?? M. CIALIS Marion .. ?? Madame TESSANDIiR, La Mignote ?? dle. LARPARCERIN ?? dle. CHAPRLAS ?? lle. DALTi {FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 23.-M ...

... This handsome and commodious new theatre of varieties, which is to be opened on Easter Monday, has been erected by the London District Empire Palaces, Limited, of which the chairman is Mr H. E. Moss, and the managing-director Mr Oswald Stoll. The new building is situated in the Broadway, and consider- ing that there exists no other ball of varieties in Stratford-a district as thickly populated ...

... LETTER PROM MR. CHAMBERLAIN. 1MR. 0. BOOTH's SCHEME. A conference upou old age pensions, At which. nearly one hundred thousand working men wer* Ie represented. took place at Birmingham on Saturday! afternoon, and was ddressed by r. Charles Booth. Trade unions, trade, friendly, and other economic societies, not only from Birmingham but from all; the towns for a wry large arma arond, sent dele- ...

... OPPOSMION TO THE LONDON GOYER MENT BILL. Mr. W. IT. Dickinson detir^.-ered3 a letueC11 o1 London Mulu iojoal Bill ve.terid- elliflC. before & meeting o' the Ncrth St P'aicria Liberal and RW d Cal Association which wvas htold at 'he 'NS;lk Os Schools, Wilkin-sitroer N N '4r. F. Tewt presidt Mr. Diekinrson statei tha tie B.13 i its spirit was antagonlistic to th e ci Iot doii, rand meant thsa ...

... AN ARTISTS REMINISCENCES', MR FELIX MOSCHELES'S AUTUBIOGRAPHY. MENDELSSOHN, MAZZINI, ROSSINI, AiND BROWNING. [PUBLISHED TO-DAY.) The desultory oharater of Mr. Folix Mos- eheles's volume is frankly conftssed on his tit- pagei; but uee are far from thinking tuat it, lostes anything in interest or charm frtm the fre and eaSV method which the author has adopted. We have already had from the maino ...

... WIUA AND BEQUEST8. THI VALIJ rY OF A SECOND UARRIAGE. The executors of the will which boars date Matrh 25, 1885, with a odicil of the 15th Arl and 24th May, 18S5, and 28th May 1895, of Mr. Willtas Keiller, of Farmnwood, Wimbiedon Park, who died on the 25th of January last, leaving personal mtnte valued at £100,633 6s, Sd., and the gross value of the whole of whose estate is £fl7 341, ar Mr, ...

... i EV ANGELICALS AND MODERN SACERDOTALISM. W'OlrC OE THE NATIONAL COUNCIL, A SIGNIFICANT MOVEXENT. NO PEACE WITH ROME. ANGLICAN PRIESTS' PRETENSIONS. The anutlal meetings of the Natioual Council of the Evangelical Free lhurcihes cnmmenced At Liverpool yeerday. Abhnt a thousand delegates attonded, theso soing dravts from all parts of the country. In the morning the Ucv. Dr. John Clifford, the ...

... MR RRODES'S NEGOTIATIONS. GERMAN OFFICIAL STATEME NT PARTICULARS OF THE TELEGRAPH AGREEMENT, (FOMOU 00 oot08~PONDENT. ) BDELIN, Tuesday Nigitt. HErr von B13low, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to-day delivered a Rpeech in the Rbichstag which oonfirms what has already become known about the negotiations between the Government antd Mr. Cecil Rhodes. The agreement relating to the telegraph line has ...

... [ 0 t I I c .9 1 t 9 f I I i II i I I i f I i i I I I I i I! i I I 4 i I I i WIHAT IT WILL DO, AND HOW IT WILL VORK. THE POWERS AND THEIR REPRE- SENTATIVES. At the present moment the Russian alepre- sentatives abroad are negotiating With the Govaurnments to which they are accredited the preliminary conditions for the Peace Con- ference which is to open at the Hague in May. In the mucantinie ...