, 1893-07-15

Lady Broome are now visiting this city.
New York, July. 1lth.-London advices
report that in the House OF Commons yrster-
day Mr. Redmond offered an amendment to
clause nine in the Home Rule Bill, in which
it is proposed to reduce the irish delegation
to Westminster by %. His amendment was
to retain the present number of l23 members;
on its being put to the vote it wa lost by23O
to 266.
Nj. Heneage, Mp FIR Grimsley, then
moved that tn Irish party be to ally exclud-
ed, this, however, was lost by a vote Of 240
to 2O9. In the division the Parnellites voted
with the ayes, and the McCarthyiJes with the
nays.
The failure il announced Of the. New. Zea-
land loan and Mercantile Agency, With Il capital
OF "a, 500, coo sterling: the loss to British
investors is estimated atthrre quarters OF the
total.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria has published
letter expressing her sincere thanks TO her
subjects FOR the popular loyalty and devotion
eviDoed on the occasion of the maria, 70 Of
her beloved grandson, and expresses the feel
ing that the real strength of the empire con.
sists in her peoples knowledge how truly her
heart beats for them in their every Joy and
sorrow.
The death is announced Of P rofessor Net.
tlcship Of Oxford University.
Berlin advices state that Count Won
Caprivl has informed the Kaiser tAat the
Army Bill will probably be passed BY a
majority Of Is or 80 votes.
Chicago kilograms report a terrible fire as
having taken place at the Worlds Fair
whereby the cold storage ware house eX-
hibit VAS totally destroyed, the loss is
estimated at one million dollars. The
flames commenced near the top of a wood
ooo,.oI ou,olo okooJv IQ1 Foot ~ hairhf Ovor
twenty frrmen assembled by mailing on iron
cleats, the fire however descended inside and
burst out 40 feet below THIN, but beyond the
reach Of the talleet ladderS;one fireman escap.
ed terribly burnt by sliding dowa the hose
pipe; the other poor fellows, having no chance
of escape, jumped to certain death or were
CONSUMED by the flames; thirty Thousand
spectators witness ii this distressing scene,
Plymouth, July l2th-The r. M. S.
"Atrato'' from the West Indies arrived here
at 5 a III.
New York. ] ulv I2th-During the discus
sion of the HON e Rule Bill, Mr.. Seton Kari,
Member for st. H"lcn's, NOV ed nm amendment
that the Irish delegation to Westminster re
elected by the same Constituencies hat elect the
Members to the hish Legislature; this would
reduce the delegation to 48 Members Mr..
Brodriok. Member Tor Guildford, supported
The amendment beCRrEe # the general
impecuniositv of the Irish members eUnd
also on account of their ganulous ten
denotes in the House, which made it deSl-
rable that the minimum number oltE should
have seats in the British assembly. Mr.. Sexton
replied by claiming that the House should rot
tolerate ST CHI grossly impertinent language,
whererpon the speaker reprimanded Mr..
Sexton and ordered him to withdraw his
expressions. An exciting debate followed
respecting partiality and ifregularity of pro-
Oedure by the speaker. Upon Mr.. Gladstone
appealing to Mr.. Sexton the latter obeyed the
speakers third order and withdrew his
expressions. The motion Of Mr.. Seton Karr
was lost by 25l to PIG votes.
Mr. Deasy Anti -parnellite M for West Mayo,
has resigned his seat he has recently been fined
twenty five pounds sterling for an assault
upon a lodging house maid.
Lord Coleridge is reported to be i'll.
T, legrams from st. Petersburg report that
cholera has broken out n Moscow.
In the Spanish IN ties, Senior VillanneTe,
reading separatist extracts from Cuban jour
nails, denounced the colonial ministers, PropoS
ed Home Rule reforms: after fifteen minutes
uproat Senior Maura explained his programme
oh ;uolt.dad urovisions aUaiagt the AsCend-