... I CONNEXIONAL FUNDS, I 'The roprelsentative scsxi-ns of thlis Conference ecnm eonc-cd in Wesley s Chapel, yesterday morn- ilg, under the Chairrmi inship of the ?? lltej P. W. MaceInaldi. The devotional exermises i0- etuded the aidministration of the Lord's Supper. The % hole of the lower part of the Chiap1l and part of the gal!ery. waa rceervedl for th, represen- tative, andl the publio were ...

... WPELESS WA P, inING WEAPON)S OF DESTRUCTION: GRIM POSSIBILITIES OF TIE F UTUEI . I rnt re-arkzable exeerinent-s in wiresessP telegrapb by Mr. J. N. Maskelvne and the¶ Re-. S .M. Bacon. at Newbnrr, described in yesrer&, Duali News, are, -w;e are assur mor so noroel as thev appeared. They bavo been Ffir>s-Ler ...

... THE ThiN-SVAAIL CRISiS. AFTER BLOUEMFONTEIN. STORY OF THE NEGOTIATIONS. M1R. SCHREINER AND THE GOVENMMENT. iMPORTANT BLUE BOOK In view of the' debat'?s in Par]Lixment today, a J1luo Book was icsued yesterday, contalmn Fnrthior Correspoudencle relatiing to Propose Political leformss in the South African Repub- lie. This corresponuience cairries tbh story dowl to the present weok. 'Thct most ...

... ABDENTS ON RAI WAY& DECREASING RATI0. Br w of ahowing t.eo - take by rater ?? icc to proveiast aocidanto to their i 4rwin Mr. P. 1arrion, General Manager of the Londos arnd North Wertern. gavo yes*terday to the Royal GCoAImlnission at the Surveoyori' Instituta fuirt-her d.,- tails nt, tho workinig of their SyAlImlii. He1 Spuku also b0i Lehtlf of thel Railwvy Associhttior, ni.id it goneral ...

... LONDON'S LATEST T REMAN. At a special meeting of the Court of Common council, at the Guildhall, on Thursday, the Lord Mayor presiding, JZIr. John. Henniker 'Keaton, M.P. for *Canterbury, was presented with the :freedqm.of~the> Ciryi in recognition of Ihis public services ?? postal *reforms.-The City Chamberlain (Sir .Richmond.Cotton) in presenting the freo- dom to Mr. Ifeaton, the dotuments ...

... | I - - - - . HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAT. GORDON MEMOBIAL COLlE G. :ihe LoILD CRANCELIOR, in modnig the second reading of the Gordon Memorial Col- lege it Kbartoum bill, expbliiwd tbit in the event of this being treated, as a public trust the trustees would require to. be indemnified against any supposed breaches of trust by investing-in Egyptian senrities, and this the bill proposed to ?? bill ...

... . COTZ1qTED) IN PRZSON. A powerful4ookitig labourer, named JohnTborapson, 27, wAS put up for sentence on Thursday at the London County Sessions, having, at the last session, pleaded Guilty to damaging a window at a West-end public. house. Prisoner, in mitigation, said that people ran after him, calling out, Sir John, you're off again. When ho took wine it made him bombard places. ...

... TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME. IMu: elurs, &C., Open Free,- -Briti'hi 2lo~ent 2 to 6.- Sooth Rvoigtii lliemt, 2 to tt-- Indian Miummn, Ito Ii._ Natnr.' istioteiy Iltesemn, 2 to 6i--llothujl Green Atutoueni, 2 to 6. ---'-tiboogicaI Alnoinoi, Jermyn.cbveet ,2 to 7.-Gieeirnich Ifospimul, 1 to ?? iouden Act Gullery, Ps~cklhi-read, 3 to 0--Kcew t'Gadens9 I to iloek.-- - Stienal GAllery, 2 to &.--Natioonl ...

... It must be an older archaeologist than the present writer who can speak, de visu, of the first appearance in the London streets of the now only.too familiar sandwichman. When all the world was very young indeed, and I was being personally conducted along the Strand, with never a prevision of the familiarity my fbet were to acquire with this absorbing, fairylike, and tumultuous thoroughfare, I ...

... Cbe top of the MIIforning, MR. RITCHIE ON THlE MERCANTILE MARINE. Mr. Ritchie presided yesterday at the distribution of prizes to the of the training ship Worcester. He said the proportion of Britislh seameti on board British ships instead of increasing was, unfortuuatelyalilmot yely diminishing. The presentstate of things h adarisen verylargely ill ?? of the substitution of steam for sail. As ...

... IN THE HOUSE. BY AN OBSERVER. MR. CALDWELL is one. of those members of Parliament whose light is, for most part of the Session at any rate, hid under a bushel. At the beginning of the Session and at the end Mr. Caldwell is most in evidence; when the liouse of Com mons, after the first round of disputation, is yearning to escape for a few days' rest at Easter, Mr. Caldwell rises up from the ...

... Ti-iOUGH, as we write, the' sky is overcast, the weather omens are fairly propitious for the athletic competitions between the English and American Universities which are to be held at Queen's Club, West Kensington, this afternoon. It would be a thousand pities, indeed, if the rain caused the postponement of a meeting which, from every point of view, promises to be exceptionally interesting. ...