... l INSURGENTS DRIVEN OU OF AEGROS. TEE NAVY ESTIMATES. b BY CABLE. luOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDMS NR v YasRK, T-uESDAY.-I a despatchL cabled D fromn Manila to the War Department to-day, I General Otis sayts the insurgents have been driven out of Negros. 31 A despatch from Washington states that the il State Department has received information indi-- eating that Russia has agreedl at length to refer ...

... , This week's issue of the Lady's Pictorial is a double number specially dealing with the autumn and winter fashions. A large number'of beauti- fully executedl plates are given, accompanied by much attractively written descrintive matter. In addition: the ordinary features of the journal are retained. Among the mnany photos will be noticed those of the Queen of Portugal, the Duke, Duchess, ...

... THE METHODIST CHUROI. Miss Harriette Campbell has passed with distine, tion the Mus. Bac. degree examination of the Royal University of Ireland. The Mayor of Capetown, Mr. Thomas Ball, is a Wesleyan, as are also Alderman A. Pyatt, Ma'yor of Nottingham, and the Mayor of Tddlow, who, with the Corporation, recently attended in State at the Wesleyan chapel; Application was cnai&e to the jineral ...

... I SUPPOSED LOSS OF LIFE. NARROW ESCAPE OF A SHIELDS CREW. Information -was received at Dover on Saturday last of two serious collisions, both of which hap- pened off Dover, and resulted in the sinking of two vessels. In one case the masts of a vessel were seen soon after daybreak standing slightly above the water, about a mile and a half front the shore. No information could be obtained of the ...

... THE MEETING OF PARLIA- MENT. a INTENTIONS OF THE OPPOSITION. THE MILITARY PREPARA- TIONS. The Press Association, telegraphing last night, ?? chief Opposition Whip., Mr. Herbert Gladstone, was busilv occupied yesterday at the Liberal headquarters at Westminster, and he will probably have an interview to-day with Sir H. | Campbell -Bannerman. Other Liberal members lwho have arrived in town are ...

... EN G LAN D 'S i 0 M ES We boast of the homes of England-stately and, especially, otherwise-but few of us know I how many actual houses there are in this country. All round the outskirts of our large towns-Lon- don especially-the builders are building new houses so fast that one begins to wonder df all 0he old ones elsewhere have been burned down. In Great Britain there are now 7,340,096 heuses ...

... 1THE LATE MR. THO%.IAS VALE-\TiNE, IJ. P. { INTERESTING MAu&SONIC PRESENTATIONT. An interesting ceremony took place in the baln- queting chamber of thle 3Masonic Hall, Arthur Snuare, on the evening of the 9th inst.. when a numerous company assemrbled to Wiloess the un- veiling and presentation of a life-sized portrait in oils of the late Mr. Thomas Valent:ile, J.P., R.W. Provincial Deputy ...

... 1sRF2NmnTAoN rTO MiR. JOHN JOHIKSTON, B AN WidDGE. I in the Towl. HEall Banbridge. on the 27th inst-, there weva a very large ?? of Mr. JohlsttOn'S fr-inds, who h1ad inet to present uirm with a beanti- fuflv-illumiuaed address and a well fihled purse of gold Mr. George trawvfrrd pe-idede. and spoke in wvarmn terms o ~r. .Johnston's public services a-s it Poor-law (uardian. countv conucii or. ...

... The following appeared il our litesz e, j vyestorday:- HE TRANSVAAL. BOERS GETTING OUT OF HAND. A GENTLEMAN KICKED TO DEA'i'T PIETERMAJ{TZ1B'ROl t:, The Boer camp at Sandspruit. is il!t r muddle, wal so was the commiissanarse. Boer army service, it appears. las is . muismanaged. and the Boers are loid grumbling. Many of them. savsth. - 1-.- Post's correspondent. are laying L', ; General ...

... PRESBYTERIAN CH(IRCI{ GUILD. COUNCIL MEETING. te: A council meeting of the Presbyterian Church I Guild was hell at eleven o'clock yesterday morning in the schoolroom of Mlay Street Presbyterian n Church. 'Mr. Robert Anderson, J.P., presided, at and there was a fair attendance. After devotional exercisesn The Chairman, who was received with applause, in said he understood the Guild had been ...

... &NTRJM COUNTY COUNCIL. The quarterly meeting of the Antrimn County Council was held yesterday in the Grand Jury r Room, County Courthouse, Belfast. Sir Francis E. W. Macnaghten, Bart., D.L., chairman, presided, and the other councillors present wer,-, w Right Honoirable John Young, DIL.; Colonel -Duncan M'Neill, J.P. ; Colonel Edmund D. Les-- lie, D.L. ; Messrs. John Stouppe Finlay M'Cance- ? ...

... The opening meeting of the session of this so- ciety wvas held in the clubrooms, ia-ho Museum, Col- lege Square, on the evening of the 9th inst. The president (Mr. W. E. Willia.ness. wrho wan in the chair, expressed the pleasure it gave him to meet the mn-mbers of the society at the opening of the winter season, and he welcomed the menmbe-s of the Camera Club, who had accepted the society's ...