... INTERVIEW WITH THE HOME SECRETARY. The deputation, representative of the Lanca- shire glass bottle and the glass trade generally, which left St. Helens on Thursday for the pur- pose of interviewing the Home Secretary (Sir Matthew White Ridley) in regard to the in- convenience caused to the trade by the limita- tion of the age of boys who can be employed in glassworks at night, to 14 years or ...

... - ?? SALMS PoplU LIEX 2u.FRr TUESDAY, JULY 1 i THIS MORNING'S NEWS IN BRIEF. The Grand Duke George, brother of the Czar, and heir to the throne of Russia, who has long been suffering from an incurable malady, died yesterday. Lord Salisbury has summoned a Cabinet Council to meet at the Foreign Office at half-past twelve this afternoon. Information was given in the Rouse of Lords yesterday by ...

... FROM OUR LONDON| CORP~ESO~DEN I Loyuos, MONDAY Nxorar. Everotbody has been in a state of mental chaos to-day in reference to the news from South Afri.a, and 'Mr. Chamberlain himself had to cerifess this afternoon that the matter was in such a confused state that the Govern, clid not understand what had been Cane. In th-se eCrcumstances, it is needless to ro back en the s-eculations of the ...

... I A DAY AT RIV!NGfTOy. TO TEE EDITORS OP THE LIV=EPOOL MERItr Gentlemnen,-Probably not mne in a doen of othe citizens of Liverpool is at all vvindl _on. > ?? of the fact that he is a partner. or share d holder, in two of the finest. estates in ths n countr-. The average man on the srset h, ?- vague ideas that Liverpool drax. s its wat-e 3 supply from Vyrnwy and from Rivingor and n so long as ...

... TO THlE EDITOR OF IRE BRA. Sir,-The letters you published last week sufficiently disposed of Mr Thomas's claims to rights in an unauthorised dramatization of For the Term of His Natural Life. As solicitors acting on behalf of Messrs Macmillan, the owners of the copyright in the novel, we have written to Mr Thomas's solicitor, and await his reply. Meanwhile, as Mr Thomas has, through the ...

... A ratirme benefit for the Seaford Convalescent Eo~pital was gi'en at the Coronet Theatre, Notting. hill 'to Monday. and the long and varied pro- gralime attracte i a large audience, all the higher. i.Ie in the house being occupied. In the course r tile afttrtoon the Rlev. Dr. Donald M'Leod, one of ?? ttwirbers of the committee of management, '1ore the curtain and made a statement rioe rlig rhe ...

... e ALONE IN LoNDON. -Theatre Royal, Scarborough. I, AN EVIL LIFs.-Grand Theatre, Maidenbead. is AT DUTT'S CALL.-Royalty Theatre, Llanelly. - AT THE FOOT OF THE ALTAR.-Lyceum T., Newport. I. BANDMANN.PALMSIL MEs.-Pier Pavilion, Lytham. . BATEMAN, FRANK -Surrey Theatre. f BRACE OF PARTRIDGES.-Jubilee Hall, Weymouth. a BRIXTON BURGLARY.-Theatre Royal, York. e BROTHER OFFICBRS.-Weat Cliff Saloon, ...

... YIUNITED INSH lEAiW1 CONVENTION IN IN ALLINXAS)E In ryesponse to a crnnurj, :; executive N., T 1 M'anr.nr ur, the East G alway EXe.utv!r ' . l _ League, has sent -ut irn branches of Ea.st GahB ?? (six) from each branch. .r ?? garding the state of their. of ,grazing land. etc. ;ni 7- lay statements therecf ' be held in Ba!lhnasjle . n : . A meetinig of the Ba. been held for the purl . ., and ...

... I CLONTAIF URBAN DISTRTCT COLJNCIL. Yesterday the fortnightly meeting of this Council was held in the Clontarf Town Hall.. Mr Wm Graham, J P, presided, and the othet members present were Messrs Thos 0 Lemon, Wmn Hilles, and George Tickeil. CLONTARF YACHT ANL BOAT CLUB. A letter was read from the Medical Officer of Health recommending certain sanitary alt~ra. tions, as well as a proper system ...

... CARRIED BY A LARGE MAJORITY. The Hobb9 of Commons on Thursday night carried the Clerical Tithe Rent-Charge Bill by a majority of 133. The debate on the second reading was resumed by Mr. Courtney, who opposed tbe bill in the most unsparing terms. He spoke with measured deliberation and with little anima- tion all through his argument, and from the frequency with wbich he tamed to the Liberal ...

... riIHM bye-election ut Oldham has resulted, m a- Mime close observers foresaw it would, in the deieat ot' ?? Unionist candidates. It, was not .hr any lick oi go and fighting capacity on their putts, we arj confident, though they wen- doubt- less handicapped by the unexpected nature ?? the contest, by rhe fact that they had no previous knowledge of tho constituency as candidates, and by the ...

... BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIA- TION AT BUXTON. Tie annual congress of the British Archreologica Association was opeced at Buxton on .11 or. day. The first day's programme was confined to a recepticn in the afteincon iv the Council Chamber of the Town Hall, and a conversazione in tbe evening. There «as a good master of members of the EBSOciation, i-.nd general and deep regret was expressed nt ...