... I TILE POSITION IN THE PHILIPPINES PROPOSED PAN-AMERICAN EXHIBITIONG EXECUTION FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY. BE CAELR. FROT OUR OWN OORRESPONDEnT. NEw YoRx, FneDt.-It is announced that a syndicate has secured an option on 30,000 acres of land at Clay City, Illinois, upon which it is pro- posed to settle 500 French families. The idea is that the colonists shall introduce into this country their native ...

... ADDRESS AND PRESENTATIQN TO; I TTHE LORD MAYOR I FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY. lte Lord Mayor of Belfast (Councillor Otto Jaffi, J.P.) received an address yesterday-the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles-from the members of the Jewish community in the city. The interesting proceedings in connection therewith took the form ef a zeception in the Exhibition Hall, anid the attend- ance, which ...

... A REMAURKABLE MUSEUM. In the September number of the Windsor Magazine an article appears on the wonderful museum that is attached to the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and yet is known to so few of the nation to whom it beiongs. It is a huge, plain, monotone, porticoed building, towering above the solicitors' offlccs which shouider it on each side, and carrying in its ...

... LORI TEMPLETOWN'S REPLY. The following is Lord Templetown's reply to the resolutions of the convention: - DEAR MR. WILZuS-I am much obliged for your letter, posted on 27th inst., which confirms the re- solutions I saw in the Irish Times of the 16th inst., and would ask you to offer my best thanks to the executive committee of the Irish Landowners' Convention for their invitation to ...

... TRE CQ13ISSIONERS oF NATIONAt EDUJCA'TION. ANNUAL RFPOR'L. The sixty-fifth report of the Commissioners of National Education has been issued. It contain:; statistics of attendances, religious denominations, and proficiency in the sclhools during the twelve months ended 30th September, 1898, and state- ments connected wit-b. the expenditure of- parh;a mentary grants- for the year ended 31st- ...

... THE LICENSINGT QUESTION IN BELFAST. PULPIT REFERENCES. Preaching last might in Grosvenor Hall. Rev. Dr. R. Crawford Johnson congratulated the city . m the wholesale refusals of the Recorder to create .I slarge number of new pubic-houses in Belfast. He lookod forward, however, with something like dismav to the annual licensing sessions to be held next Saturday, when aspirants for spirit ...

... The continued scaucity of agricultur al labourers is particularly unfortunate at the present Moment. it is being felt, in varving degrees, all over Eng- land, but more especially according to recent re- port., in the County of Kent. A great deal of corn (says the 'Standard) is still standing, which, with the weather we have enjoyed, should have been cut and carried long ago. All our grain ...

... TLIFES Is AMEa.iCA. ARRIVAL OF THE OVMFYXIA. INTERVIEWS WITH ADMIRAL DEWE Y. . s2 -; our1 AFFAIRS IN VENEZUELA. B Y O A BL S. fr&siI FROM OUR OWN COORRSODEN. ' NEWv YORK, Tusnir~.-The Dewey reception committee have had all their elaborate arrange- ments upset and thrown into confnsion by the Olympia's arrival this morning at 5-40, two days before what may be described as the advertised time ...

... DB 3E, LOwEn QOuf0ND QUAY, MONDAY NIGHT. Her Excellency the Countess Cadogan will per- form the opening ceremony at the Irish industries sale to be held at the Ulsteir Hall, Belfast, on the 7th and 8th December. Three gentlemen-Messrs; Colman Rogers, Corbett, and Jurring-were capsized in Kingstown Harbour from a small boat on Saturday night. Fortunately, Mr. Rogers is famous for his life- ...

... JRLSH MISSION TO THlE JEWS. | MEETING IN THE Y.M.C.A. I SYMNPATHY 'WITH CAPTAIN A-ND MADAME DREYFUJS. The twelfth meeting of the Belfast branch of the Irish Mission to the Jews was held yesterday afternoon in the Young Men's Christian Associa- tioa Hall-Mr. R.. G. Glendinning in the chair. Among those present were-MNessrs. W. S. Mollan (honorary treasurer), A. C. Browne, H. S. Richardson, W. J ...

... TlE TllHRENTENED SEAMEN'S STRIKE. The following resolution has been passed by ?? Service Guild in ?? we express our disa.pproval of the nction of the leaIdcr. of the Seamen'e and Firemen's Union i;i respect of their avrowed intention to br;ng about a strnke of their members. Whilst tlully reco-ri=ig the Tirst of the seamer and' firnien to ad.net-heir own interests, wve a-re ?? t.lat the ...

... SIGNOR MARCONI AT NEW YORK. THE JOINT HIGH COMMISSION, VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES IN ALASKA BY CABLE. FROMf OUR OWN CORRESPONDE-T-.,, Nbi Yonx, TeiCESDAY.-Signor Marconi ar- rived here to-d'v on board the Cunard steamer Aurania. Talking to the crowd of newspaper re- porters -who were awaiting his arrival, he said he had had a good look at the harbour here, and was satisfied that it was excellently ...