... THE CHINESE CRISIS, MIGERX Y'S PROPOSAL. THREE POWEItS ACCEPT. lATEST IMPERIAL, DECREE. FORT AT PEITANG- .CAPTURED. DISTURBANCES NEAR CANTON. VILLAGES DESTROYED AND CHRISTIANS MURDERED. A Reater's telegram, dated Berhn, Friday, sys: Up to the present replies to Count von Billow's cir- cular note have been received from Italk, Austr-a- Hung-ary, and France, whose Governments all agree -without ...

... it I THiE ANGLO-GERAMAN A.GREMENT. NO SECRET CLAUSES. OPINION IN ST. PETLE'SBURG. !FRENCH GOVER-NMIENT FAVOURABLE. JIWANG-SE AND M. DELUASSE. |NEGOTIATIONS LIKEULY TO BEGIN SHORTLY. A- siaTlS'She iN ational zeLittna, alter maLking a c-lt- hi irert;ry, statot dfinittIv tht tie:e -are nj euret tiatuse, tO to e Atglto-isrrrtn7t .Cttfcstl . 'Inc 'ie-i;'spaixtst QuIOLIlcmdlly eiTrer e Itt * thea ...

... THE ADDRESS TO THE RIGHT HON. HORA.CE PLJIUNKETl. A meetinrg of the general Committee. was held at the Shelbotrrne Hotel, Dublin, yesterday. Anionast those present -were-Sir Robert Sexton. D.L.: Robert Booth, J.P. ; Will. Carey, V.C. Rathmines U. Council; Thos. J. Hayes, James S. Atkinsoln, LED. ; B. Keating Clay, J.P.; Sir Richard 3Martin, James Talbot Powver, D.L.; E. M. Hodg- son, J.P. ; ...

... OUTWARD.- 'SHOW~ING LATEST TfR6S CP POSTING AT HEAD POS5T 01IQ'2O-. BELFAST. ITO DAY (TV hSDAY). To Elqytti, SadagnsEor, In- 11acmoe;u by The Frcnch Pichar Torte, froml, SI .r-.eile' isipplcni--nertar; tio Gitird Canar~ nod V 'est Afi'cnn ieon, by tio'n Fr, r nlr~f II ekct(apli-er to Contirtcac of £E'rape c-certii3-, alsa i0 n Oited Stiki-,, Caaakahainac'. I diCi i. An., la tine er-man. 1l~-r ...

... LONDOYNDERRY COUNTY COPsc-.>' I A meeting of. the axricuitlral am-un-cc cd n .S cincil n-as he!d on Saturday Irs: n -h tTrona o- the Town Hall, Croirait r .lnir , Drennan, J.P.. chairman, presided. ad ar¾ members present were MessrS . i S:-s. .hiaimnan Caleraine Rural Council J, ,arsF.s i r F.A.I. ; David- L-Jve. Samu1el S. y '-in r Stewart, Win. Fliering. Janles D ' e Bailer, Robert ...

... -,Pro Bonn0 Publhco.'-The lost rime tie Prince I and Thijncess of Wales risited Bel~ast wasi theis spigof 1335. VPE IDE-NING OF OJIAPEJL LA-NE. TO ETH OtDITOIt OF THE BIELFAST SNVSw-nrcTNT.I Slne--l7t o~ld( you kindly al-ow me, to call the Patteoli-:on of thle ct-pre n t the ix-riher aiet nin o f this na-rrlow at i-ti~? u 'h ca'sJ net~ Smaithfield SMes-ra. d os&S m's a.s re-sr a- o erected a ...

... SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF T IE CTOSPE L. AflflhAL MEETflYG. The annual meetkrg of the Down and Connor ard Dromore auxiliary in connection with the Seoiery for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreignr Parts was held last right in the Minor Hail. Clarence Place. The chair was occupied by the Recorder of 3elfast (Judge diRtz.gihbon, Q.C.), and amongst thoe present rere-The Ven. the ...

... |8, LerWE ()RedeND QVAT, AJON DAY NIGHT. Tho Church of St. B.artholomew, COlyde Road, is being fitted with electric light.. To-day Mr. P. C. Cowan, chief engineering in- spector of the Local Government BoaTd, held an inquiry in the Town Hall, Ballsbridge, concerning an application of the Pembroke Urban District Councn for the sanction of the Board to loans of ;£18,000 and £l,000 for the ...

... (ESTrABISHED -LU=5NO 1737,) I -'q - ) - .W PI M ~at ;.t'W.,n -kI 't ', BELFrAST, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1900. It is stated that tha Czar will visit Paris on! the 15th or 17th September. Among the a-wards in the fine art section of the Paris Exhibition is one to the King of Portuugal. Two children have died at Rochdale as the result of eating ice-cream at a recent school 'nreat. An explosion ...

... THE ARMIY. LOCAL MILITARY NEWS. MOVEMENTS OF THE ROYAL IRISH RIFLES For some time past everything has been more or lesS duil in connection with the local military. The greater part., if not all, of the men adjudged fit have '-ceen despatched to the scene of conflict in I Southi Afriaan, leaving few but raw recruits or i ,militia behind. But whiae this has happened in 4'on-equence of the great ...

... COR RESPONDENCE. THE FUTURE OF OUR Y-ATlOS. TO TIlT VC)ITOIL OF THEl BIE ,AST NEWVS-LET C=fl. SiR-All Americran wrtiter, iccenti;- addressing a rorwdtec1 tin-e-til', satid ilati iouti cii years ago lie '~ 'lta iiiti toiht ,louns of LtoT; Ir. and wvit-r )dlill couli nat pnh ottn p ,c--o - (k t iian ':dieoca. Quita 1-u-It'2 hie a 1i nch te dine trhirct, anti folind things 51010 Li tha lyfore. ...

... I FRON OaR OWN' CIOaCSIONDHNT. I 1LOYALTY IN rEQUEST. Glasgoow is making a bid for the honour of a Royal visit in connection -with next year's Inter- nationnal Exhibition, for -which the preparations are now snaking ra~pid progress. Pr-enrinenitly, of course, the honour of tho presence of our venerable Soverein to inaugurate the undertaking would be preerred, and influential efforts, it is ...