Mr. Singg, a Glndstoninn, han been elected by " small tunjority as Member for Burnley.
[At the General Election Mr, Peter Rylands was rotness Liberal by 4.209 votes or n.]
THE NEW RULES OF PROCEDURE, London, 22nd Bobrunry, In the House of Con Mr, W. H. Swith introduced the qu procedure when Me, Gladstui oated party spirit in the disen considered the proposals we inadequate, ching v. Nepaul was y is morning, 0 a crowded Con: Lordship in xiving judgment held that the Nepaud w proceeding at an rate of speed, and that the reversal of her helm to hard-aatarbonrd was an error of judgment, and caused the colli He did not find that any case of contribute made out against the TVanien-ching, he therefore pri ed the Nepand wh to blame for the coll thick us it usually is at this time of the It is not probable that the steamers will leave here for the North till the firet that the tugboat people who loss of life at the collision greatly exaggerated. The compradore of the Wan-nien-ching reported that there were se men drowned in the transports "ti deck: in her cal have not succeeded in these places, and it is probable that the only lives lost were those who fell out of the boats in the rush. that was made to them, The two south-eastern provinces of China, the tro Kuang, are known to have a very turbulent population, and risings of a petty of the Club to allow the sowly painted damaged by the elnburate decorations that have been hitherto tomurg, was very commendable, for nothing could have been more pleasant to the eye, could have made a better background to the brilliant costumes of the Indies, and the red and black dresses of the geutlemen, than the walla of the ball room na their recent renovation not #0 fully attended a given at the re-opening of the Club, not a usual th Shang:
sometimes percopti balance the one hi tainment; but if, on the one hand, all the programmes were not absolutely full, there was never on the other haud, an incon venient crowd on the fluor at one tin The twenty dances on the programme, with a couple of extras, wore ended at when the Inst of the In came the serious second upper, by apoech Tealinn Charge d@' Afuires, M. In returning thanks in an eloquent address ung which ly in an audience ao strongly marked with "England's cruel red."
Lhere was a good attendance of members and their friends at the open Meeting of the Shanghai Young Men's Chit lution on Thursday evening.
Beauchamp was in the chair and th Hodges, M.A. road hi paper on the Po erypha At the clos Rare. J. McCarthy Dalziel and oth At the next mn which will also be open, Archdexcon Mou! will read paper on Christ turning water into win Che demand ov oursprceto-day prevents our reprinting from the Chinese Times a report of a public meeting which was held a the Tientsin Club on the 4th instant, to take some action with reference to an expression of public sentiment toward George T. Bromley, hn the following adopted 8 and solutions were unanimously
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