18 AUGUST 1900, page 3

The Times Of Wednesday Prints A Letter In Four Columns

of small type from Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., to Lord Londonderry on the subject of postal reforms. He proposes that the surplus over £3,000,000 should be devoted to "......

The Cambridge University Extension Meeting, Which Has...

Balfour as a lecturer, was privileged on Friday week to hear Sir Richard Jebb on " Macaulay." The old fashion, set by Matthew Arnold, which spoke of Macaulay with a kind of......

The Daily Express Of Friday Publishes A Telegram From...

declaring that the French Government, "in case of the, in their mind, most probable outbreak of war with England in November," will, some days before the de- claration of war,......

Monday's Papers Publish A Letter From Lord Wemyss Deal- Ing

with the question of the Militia. Lord Wemyss thinks that the Militia force will be destroyed by the proposal to make all Militiamen liable for service at any time and any-......

On Friday Week, But Too Late For Comment In Our

last issue, it was announced that the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Russell of Killowen, had died suddenly after an operation. The news, which was quite unexpected—it was by no means......

Mr. Dooley—in The Chinese Number Of Harper's Weekly— Has...

a description of Chinese lying which is unsurpassed even in that great humourist's repertory of magnificent audacities. In answer to Mr. Hennessy's remark that he did not......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent.

New Consols (2k) were on Friday 982.......