MEETING IN SAINTFIELD,, YESTERDAY a meeting of tenant-farmers was held in the Town Hall, Saintfield, for the purpose of considering the present aspect of the land ques- tion. The meeting was addressed by several speakers, and a number of resolutions passed. some of which were of

THEI LABOUR COMIISSION.1 EVIDENCE FROM BEIAST. aI mla BY OUR PRIVATE WIRE. LGNDON, TuJsA.z-Group A of the Labo= : Commsiosn, dealing with engineering and cognate trades, met to-day at Westminster Hall, under the presidency of Mr. Davi Dale. There were also ?? Diike of DTvonshire,

[LIFE IN AlMERITAO: 1 .. I 3Y SPEmAL CABLEGR - , PRaOM OUR OWN CORRESPOEND-T. Nrw YoaR, FlDAY.-TbXs being the anni- versary of Eev. Renry Ward Beecher, there ns U. considerable pilgrimage to his grave in the Brook- lyn Cemetery, and the colossal surmounting statue .was-ljterally

TIHE LONDON( PO1SONINTG 'ASE. LoNnoB, FrIDnYs-The inquest on the body of Matilda Clover, who died of strychnine poisoning at 27, TQ'nbeth Road, in October last, was re- saned at Tooting Vastry Hal to-day. Mr. Gill again represented the Treasury, and the prisoner, who was again pr

:gitE P ,JO1]J BeO I ANNUAL MEETING FOR THE DISTRIBUTION L dI r MEDALS At. PIS. e h~e annual distribution of prizes to the Pres- o byterian pupils of the .above school took place B yesterday in the boys' schoolroom. Zn addition to .a nunber of parents and" friends of pupils, ther

EX-POLIOEMMAN 100 AND MR. LTPTON. CURIOUS 2ZECONRE AT HONG-KONG. SUPERINTENDENT ANDREW, Of the Western Divi- sion, has received a letter from Mr. T. J. Lipton, the well-k-town provision merchant, dated Hong- Kong. 15th May. in which he gives the following account of an amusing re

MTE AM-ERICAN __ARKETS. : NEW YOR1K STOCK EXCHIOGE. J ~~SJBCIAL OABLEGEAMl. 21 NEWV 'ORK, JUNE~ 5 THn feature of ,the Stock Exchange to-day has been- the extreme dulness reigning in nearly all departments, the quotations of many stocks not being. tested by any transactions at all

ir OF THE 0- d PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN ~e IRELAND be FIFTH DAY it ,Tais A ssemlmy resumned yesterday in Saekville H~all, ,s Dublin-the Moderator (Rev. Robert M'Cheyne 8: Edgar) presiding. After devotional exercises, the Clerk read the minutes, which were confirmed. THE HOME RULE

THE M[ETRODIST I¶URCU.. . INXUAL CONFERENOCE 1 THE Conference resamed at ten o'clock yesterday s morning-the Rev. T. B. Stephenson, D.D., LED., of London (President), in the chair. The daily" t record evas read by the senior assistant secretary l (Rev. John 0. Park, ?? and accept

ROM-ANISING AT SOUTHA'UPTOO. THE Englisk GOUIerman says-" The Rev. H. M'Sorley. M.A., vicar of St. Paul's, Tottenham. and formerlv Ethical IMToderator. and scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, having observed in oar columns the report of the attendance of the Cor- poration at mass