... Pa III nmi ag the m-ite Tn. last time that I saw Sir Benjamin Blaker, the Chief Con stltineg Engineer of the great dam on the Nile (writes a corre- e,,nrdcnt), was just before heleft forEgypt. Ilewasgoingwith Mr. 1 lohn .ird, the head of the great firm of contractors which is build- it, the darm. His rooms were piled with plans and diagrams the work, drawings of the great culverts through ...

... got Nelson at 'Thiblill GrIstIt IN the summer of 1895 all Dublin welcomed a new Viceroy in the Right Hon. Earl Cadogan, not only for his own sake, but because that, with him, came a Vicereine well fitted to fill this high and responsible position. For three years Ireland had felt the want of a woman to take her part as leader of social functions, and still more, to use her influence in the ...

... PAUPERIZING AGENCIES, ?? illsIIP'EITORI OF Riii'lOLPS55 NiiWSPAi'El. Sin--The m,%tent In ?? P;iI1PpclI~fI ?? in ilds votiiinty is inl itself ?? indtv-ititoll shtlr` oIi, nietwile (if doling~ cut Ciariity rice nt- ode' Live. Tile right hind of (haritiy, intlli- gity p1ot'.iurlltel1 te ic'eitiii1 Of p:ilpiiptcikt f's' it' is 2li, it .1 lr-iti:i1b '.;iIIs S hief 'itijeci mist ?? yi lie lIII ...

... CIVILIZATION FOR LANCASHIRE. DEBATE IN PARTLAIATENT. __4 rI the Ilieise of ('cmctinos oi ?? MI. JOsilOOxN looiel the cecoldl ie eling of the filisdenuioc ,(r I ll]icioel Bill, .Ol~l. jwopp>ed to( ,p lmvt tllit, tle al -it are ! wihih iniceftli4 cl:i!il 5lolilil te04e cihnil ioi]blli bt iw'l ic ii,:ccl! of eloress. Th'1 ' ill .l i t rlllp; n* iinile oll ,TIii:Iilir I llh L it :it ranll &Ii-. ...

... ?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 ...

... trt; Fee lz&L A Acm~mc . ddate, ate ?? expwning tbe theowy of a Ip 1in a taxt ana its imcown in drawig up the juice, added the neceah proviso that the. ?? ,;ust not be more thau thirty feet high. In Qder thst * workmn may get compennliui under the Aet of 1897, the building on which he is employed must not be le-sthan thirty feet high, Although this 'strietion does not, on the fare of it, ...

... 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 ...

... * SATISFACTORY 1ROGRESS. i w HE CAUGHT A CHILL Ty (FROxt Oer CORESPONDENT.) W ROME, Friday Night. The Pope can now be really considered almost ont of danger, being this morning for Co the first time without fever. Jt was thus pos- sai sible to satisfy his oft-expressed desire to have ., ] the window-curtains drawn, enabling the th( patient to see the blue sky, which he greeted, au saying, ...

... 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 ...