... INTERVI EW WITH THE U. S. MINISTER TO SIAM. THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN ENGLAND AND THE STATES. PURELY A QUESTION OF 4' DOLLARS AND CENTS. (PRESS ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPECIAL.) London, Tuesday. A representative of Reuter's Agency to-day, had an interview with the Hon John Barret, American Minister to Siam, who had just reached England from Manila. During his five years' residence in the Far East ...

... THE NATIONAL TEA CHEM. Mr. TsHRENCs CLARKE, the Secretary of the Teachers' Executive, publishes to-day the resolution of the Standing Committee of the Bishops in reply to the declaration of the recent Congress on the Maynooth Re- solutions. The Bishops recognise the re- solution, as it stands, to be 4 quite satisfac- tory, but they at the earns time express their regret that the other ...

... ,uit, SPlAT IN THE ANGLICANI ?? UIRCH' , LORD HALIFAX AND LORD 0. I fHAMIL.TON. London, Wednesday. S dking at a Church bazaar to-day at Don- s i1 Halifax said he lived through many lshe result of the crisis of twenty-five s-c-,l.I. ohich culminated in the Public i :-:± Pie-ulation Act. w-as to help forward ?? WZ1ws meant to crush. They ought k (; td t ir the present agitation, because ?? c an ...

... THIRD EDITIONN. ?? (BTr S/krAn C WIR.) FREEMAN OFF1cE, TunuSPDAY MoairNg. HALF-PAST FIVE: OCLOCE. THIS DAY'S SPORlTING PROPHECIES. sANIDOWY. From the Daily News of To-dwa. Trial Plle-Em.vwurth or Mortlake Walton T Y O-Vicenza filly Tudor Plate-Hadrian or Proclma0ioc Juvenile Selling-Temnptress or Jocoe Guildford Handicap-Duie TrEe or Kig, of the Plains Prince of Wales Handicap- Morning D wo ...

... ENGLAND AXND TEE TRANSVAAL. Taz situation in Souath Africa seems to be developing rapidly into a critical condition. The answer given to Mr Dillon a few days ago in the House of Commons regarding the extraordinary number of troops at present in the colony was sufficient indication of the feeling of the Government regarding the immediate future of the country and the state of feeling in ...

... - SOUTH DUBLINUNIJN . . Yesterday the last ~peeting of the South F Vunion ?? was held-at the Workhouse, h James's street, Thuiscay' is the Board's usual d day of meeting, but Thursday being election day it was impossible to have the meeting on D thatiday.- a T T-chair was taken by Sir Robert Sexton, hi S P. Also ?? . 'CaU..AndreW -wle, t1 Captain H Boyd, Henry Hodgins, J P; 3 S ec Cr. zier, V ...

... ?? (sr ?? wizz.) FnMa-s OFFICE, SATUEDAY MONINxn. Efny-7PAST Fxvz e'CLOcr. CONVICTS'. NEWSPAPER. The Daily Mail's New York correspxb dent ?? convicts at Sing Sing Phsog New York, who numoer 1,300, are an to publish a weekly newspape. eeitics4 The Star of Hope.' The first numb, .comes out to-morrow, and widl ?? of four pages, giving the news of th* Pr1Sonaaid a summary of surimt events. It ...

... .r -I I.RIS UNION THE IRISH U-NION,:' Al . BY .- J G SWIFT MACNEILL, Q C, M P. In my sketch of the proceedidgs in the British Parliament previous to Mr Foster's speech in the Irish Parlianment against the Uniouvn othe 11th of April, 1799, ejhave practically: onfined ry observations to the conduct of Mr Pitt and, Mr Sheridan, between whom the question of the.Irish Union was fiercely fought with ...

... LoN1()N- COHLi;RESPONDENCE. I (fiIIIM o;P OWN COP-IE;P1(NDFNT.) (BY SPECIAL WIRE.) Lu )on, 10 honday Morning. *: Lill- Of Devonshire is a man without .r vot .ity, and he Would not speak of 1 n ?? * ent Sroln public life without sii.. I-li speech at Presteign, .. -; r~itdl w-idespread attention, and . *I iie said considerable re'ret.i * .:c ire is a stolid unteach. hi. h; but he has a' ways ...

... . RO I - NCIAL - NE - -W _ I: RROUNINAI NEWS.-. AN EY.IOTED TIENANT SENT TQ JAIL Tullamore, Friday. At -the ines County Qudier Sessions Court which terminated yastida a cae | of; considemble interest was hear4 bT his Honor xndge Cr. Q C.- The Crown I charged Mchael Keane, a man of respectable pearan ?? -perae h~d:sfso bg with- hanng taken forcible possession of a farm from which he had been ...

... - 1 I T{UN DERST'OLIM IN WEST I CLARE,- A MAN KEILLED IBY LIGHTNING. hjilrush, Friday. I Te -ey about 3 o'clock a ,sovege thunder-'' storm, lasting for severkl hours, passedover o Kilrtub. The liglhtning was fearfully interse, i' whilst the thunder, following with the greatest rapidity, was of the muet deafening character. From the accounts tow coming to hand from country districts it appears ...

... TO Til EDITOR or rEM FREEMAN. Sir-The intolerant action of the Tory, or rather I should say Orange, majority, of the Dungannon Rural District Ocuncil, il stubo- bornly refusing to co-opt Nationalists not alone for the positions prescribed by the Local Government Act, but even one for the vacant Nationalist seat of Tullynuhin, need ucarce be wondered at considering the high pressure state of ...