The Debate On Thursday Was Opened By Mr. E. Beckett
(M.P. for Whitby Division of Yorkshire), who made a rather formid- able attack on the trustworthiness of Mr. Parnell's denials, illustrating his case by a denial which Mr.......
Mr. Noel A. Humphreys Read A Paper Of Much Interest
last week before the Statistical Society, on "Class Mortality," in which he drew attention to the fact that in the Peabody buildings in London, which now accommodate some 20,000......
An Order Recently Issued By The War Office Reducing The
Horse Artillery by four batteries has greatly disturbed the minds of many officers, and a memorial against the reduction, addressed to the Secretary for War, has been signed by......
Dr. Oscar Lenz, The African Explorer, Who Has Just Travelled
from the Stanley Falls to the Zambesi, via the great lakes, though himself a philanthropist who has "never fired a shot," and who never quarrels with the natives, discredits......
Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.
Consols were on Friday 102i- to 1021.......
Professor Campbell Fraser, In His Very Able Address To The
University of Edinburgh last week, pleaded, in effect, for resisting, for the present at least, the introduction of a liberal system of options into the pass degree for Arts......
It Is Stated That The Colonial Conference Has Already Ended
in a plan for the maritime defence of Australia. The British Government, without reducing its own squadron in the South Pacific, will provide five armed cruisers at an original......
• The North German Gazette,in An Article Clearly...
to a Treaty between Russia and Austria signed in 1877, before the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War, under which Austria was permitted to occupy and govern Bosnia and......