... IO Ul LONDON LElTER I & BY OU'R PrIVATE WIPRE. BPLFsas7 NxwsW-Lsrntr. (rrp. , 435, STtAYD, W.C., TrmDAoy )%GE The Meeting of Parliament. Unprecedented interest in the naetin'. >. p liameat to-day was manifested by 1he public, who, in large numbers, for mast watch and ward at the approaches to -Mw r Ya-rd, in order, as it turned out, to more prominent members of the (Thvernuus M Chamberlain ...

... I BursaCv, :£61SL.avinsa FaIlosveE Alaird l'ear Students ...

... CITY I EDITION. - - - Hollr PlrbtSarde or Bida-le. SoathdL Welter-Seiniitsr or 31:Dt. L>rv .Ya:seln-Ardeer or 91n Bol:lsot. .3lloc!lile Plate-Dehv 3.ie {rtarl. B4tilsahUd PiatMenEcith or Vciadett l.. Asixxmbe EaadieatNorXrrl h2nker or Tender sd ' 3.§am Ph3DusndaJe. Sesibiido WeltelirsAt3r. s Loves S2il ery- Ardeer. JurerLilo Piste-Dewy R>me. 3R3e gelding. 4 hT a;4 L ' ...

... | 'U >it 38, Lowmt OsAXOND QUAY, S, S VRUNDAY N IGHT 'The Church of Ireland Conference, which form- . ally opens in the Rotunda at 2-30 p.m. next Tuesday, may be said to have been inaugurated to-day, having regard to the galaxy of dis- tinguished special preachers who referred to the d event from the pulpits of the Cathedral and prin- .e cipal churches, among others the Bishop of New- [t ...

... TH4E COURT. BAILMMA&L, TuEsDAY.-The Queen went out yea- ierday morning with Princess Henry of Batten. Ser, and the Hereditary Princess Hohenlohe. In the afternoon her Majesty. accompanied by ; Princess Holienluhe and Princess Francis Joseph I Df Battenberg. drove to Danzig Shiel for tea. 4 Prince and Princess Fredericl Leopold of Prussia, the Duke and Duchess and Princess Margaret of Connaught ...

... IMPERIAL -PARinfix ROYAL MESSAGE. EMBODIMENT OF THE MILITIA. DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS. The Speaker took the chair shortly after twelve o'clock. MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN. Mr. BALFOUR appeared at the bar, and said he had a Message from her Majesty under her own sign manual He brought it up, and it Avas read by tie Speaker, as follows:- VICTORIA REGINA The state of affairs in South Africa having ...

... A STARTLIiNG REPORT. LAING'S NEK OCCUPlED. BOER ADVANCE BEGUN. NEWCASTLE TO BE EVACUATED. The following message from the Daiy7 Tele- graph's war correspondent appeared in the second edition of. that newspaper yesterday:-Newcastle, Wednesday, 12-10 p.m.- I have come in here by train from Charlestown. Boers nightly occupy Laing's Nek. They hold the mountains to the south-west of Volksrust in ...

... THE P1EESBYTERIAN CHURCH. THE FAMINE IN INDIA. APPEAL FROM THE MODERATOR. The Moderator of the General Assembly has issued an appeal to the ministers and members of the Presbyterian Church to Ireland, in which he ?? newspapers have been telling us for some time past of the failure of the usual rains over large districts of India. and of the famine which is consequently threatening. In other ...

... LADIES' COLLEGIATE SEBOOL, ROSETTA PARK. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES BY LADY ARTHUR HILL. The annual distribution of prizes in connection with this successful school, which is conducted by the Misses Gaiway, took place yesterday afternoon in the schoolroom, Wiaiynnstay, Rosetta Park, in the presence of a numerous. company of parents and friends of the pupils. Rev. R. J. Lynd, D.D., presided, and he ...

... The following appcared in our 2utest ea-n Q yesterday: - THE WAR, BASUTOS AND THE FPREE STATE. A REPORTED RISING. LADYSMITH. f-,cl- I have just received importani .wws Morningr Posts'' correspondent. . that the Basutos have risen ?? Free State. I should not be TlFlo,:' bepu. the Zuhu chief. follow.A- this attacking the Transvaal Bners. H- ?? ings of revenge in conseluesc. or ti,. native ...

... 38, LOWER ORMOND QUAY, MONDAY NIGHT. Oh the recommendation of his Grace the Duke of Abercorn, LIeutenant of the County Donegal, the 'Lord Chancellor has appointad Nr. Robert 'AN Clure to the Commission of the Pe-ace for that county. On the recommendation of the Earl of Goseord, Lord Lieutenant of the County Armagh, the Lord Chancellor has appointed Captain J. E. Harding to the Commission of ...

... ? FORE10 INTELUANCE. I I I . I- - - -- - 1 I BRUTES'S TELEGRAMS. LIVELY SCENE AT A BULL FIGHT. EIGHT PERSONKS INJURID. PARIS, Sunday. The bull fight postponed from the 1st inst. wa's held at Idaghein, in the environs of Paris, to-day, but the first bull hod no sooner entered when he rushed for the barrier, cleared -it, end alighted among the spectators, injuring eight of them. It, then got out ...