... PARLIAMENT, LAST NIGHT, Ho0 U7SE OF L ORDS. Their Lordehlips met at a quarter past fouiro'clock. THE AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAIND) f BILL. The Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill weas read a, first tins. GYT Lord SToATIIEDEN and CAMPBELL celled attention- to the further correspondence upon Egypt, and moved for esie of the original concessions to H. de Le~seeps with a readto the ...

... THE DIILITARY OCOUPATION OF, EGYPT. if AFFAIRS IN SOUTE-AFRICAL ] d[SPECIAL TELEGRAMUj HOUSE 0OF COMMONS, Monday Night. i O Mr. Gladstone's statement to-niglht with respect to the t .g military occupation of Egypt must destroy once for all the r hopes of persons who believed that the Government either I a deliberately intended to annex Egypt, or the larger number r ;o whobelieved that even ...

... THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC LN BIR- DIUNGIA.M. Although it is too early to be ever sanguine concerning tice abatement of the epidemic of smnallpx vith which the sanitary authorities of Birminglam have at present to deal, itis satisfactory to note that during the last two days there has been a marked decrease in the number of new cases. Time cases last week numbered eight or nine a day. On Sunday ...

... ,LA T 1 ST NE WS.e ?? Tdeglqcms, p~er Press Association.] FRAINCE. PARIS, JoLT 24. mn * The Cbamb~ of D)eputies Og~,ir to-day proceedod with go the dbatber.. b Riailway Convention. il Rayrnal, Pr Dfinister of publit WVorks, and Geperal Thebaudin, -Viniste f ar, declarod thuS thle conventions would ?? suffce for all the Contingent nseeis ofth ationl eene.a K., Isayna5l stated that matters had ...

... The Naples correspondent of the Diacef, describing tin visit of the King, says :-The King was received on lksid ing by Signor Genala, Minister of Public Works, General Mezzacapo, commanding the Army Corps at Neple-, rnl the Duke of San Donato, head of the Provincial Cemneil. With them, assembled on the shore, were also all ihe rer remnants of the population of Casa micciola wvho crol ed round ...

... STRI11E OF WVEAVERS.-Five hundred power- loom towel weavers at Ashton-under-Lyno yesterday struck work against 7¼h per cent. reduction in wages. TiiE NorEn OF ENGLAND IRON TRADE.-The ship- ments of pig-iron from the Tees during August were 84,605 tons, or 213 tons more than were exported during July. TprooPs roB IRELAND.-Tho 2nd Battalion of Scots Guards leave Woolwich to-day, in the trooper ...

... THE STATE OF rELAND, oMR. PARNELL. Mr. Plarnell will ceot pay his promised visit to Cork to-morrow, as originally arranged. It is now quite uncertain when lie will ad(lress lis constituents, and the arrangements must abide his own convenience altogether. THE PARNELL TESTIMONIAL. The treasurers of the Parnell National Tribute yesterday re. ceived a letter from Mr. D. O'Conor, Chicago, enclosing ...

... *on. There has been an explosion of flrc-damp in a mine at ?? Unna, in Westphalia, killing fifteenyiiiers and wounding 0 three. ido an Infantry General von Blunenthal, commander of the of Fourth German Army Corps, has been raised to the rank om o Count. of It is stated by a Lisbon paper that the cultivation and of manufacture of tobacco upon an extensive scale is about the to be attempted by ...

... The last scene of the tragedy which during the last v eek hba caused throughout Birmingham sodeep a feeling of deprivation and of grief, took place on Saturday, when the remains of John Henry Chamberlain were lovingly but Fadly laid to rest in the old cemetery at Key Hill, the cerno psanto of so many beloved and illustrious citizens of eour great town. The obsequies, though quietly rendered, ...

... I HOSPITAL SUNDAY IN BIRINGHAM. 'f Yesterday was the twerlty-fifthi year of the simultaneous Ir collections in the varioes places of worship inl Birmingham dfor the medical charities of the tov'.I 18.to ole ;o tions were for the Queen's Hospitl; atyerte eivere for the Amalgamated Chlarities, that is to ir say, the General .Dispensary, Children's HOBO.i- tal, Eye Hospital, Woman's H-ospital, ...

... SEPROIJS COLLISIONS AT SEA. GREmT LOSS OF LIFE. The Compagnic GCenrale Transatlantiqun steam)sship St. Germain, from Havre for New York, collided yesterday t morning- at three o'clock, forty miles ?? of the Eddy- stono, cvith the steamship Woodburn, from the East, viz the Suez Canal, The Woodhurn sank, an eighteen of her crccv were drowned and eleven saved. The St. Germain 1 put in to Plymouth ...

... I The inaugural meeting of the MFiland Medical Societi for the session of 1883-1884 was helli last night, at tih Grand Hotel; the prcsident, Dr. Bodirngton, in the clhir, There were about 170 medical men of the town and dii trict present, including Professor Bartlett, Dr. G. Malinc J. Hutchinson, ?? Johuston(e, Saundby, Jolly, S. IL. A-gar (Henley-in -Arden), Joy (Tamworth), C. W. Suckling; ...