10 OCTOBER 1896, page 19

The South-westerly Gale Which Swept Over These Islands On...

night, and on the earlier part of Thurs- day, was one of the most violent and disastrous of recent years. Owing to the storm coinciding with the spring tides the coast towns and......

At The Wednesday Meeting Of The Church Congress A Most

striking paper on " The Bearing of the Theory of Evolution on Christian Doctrine" was read by Canon Gore. It is im- possible here to give any true account of this closely......

A Vacancy Has Been Caused In East Bradford By The

sudden death of Mr. Byron Reed, the nephew of Sir Edward Reed, owing to a carriage accident at Ventnor. Though Mr. Reed was returned by a majority of 704, there is almost......

Sir William Harcourt On Monday Made A Speech On The

Eastern question, which we have described and dis- cussed elsewhere. At Rhymney on Tuesday he made a second speech to his constituents. The first division of the speech was a......

The Irish Times Of Last Saturday Publishes A Report Of

a very important meeting held in Dublin to consider the ques- tion of workhouse reform. The meeting was convened by Lord Monteagle, and in a memorandum accompanying his......

The Proceedings Of The Church Congress Held This Year At

Shrewsbury have been unusually interesting. We have noticed elsewhere the vigorous protests made against the recent Papal Bull, and we notice below the best paper read in the......

Two Bengalees Have This Week Attracted Much Attention....

Bose, a physicist in Calcutta, has made some researches in invisible electricity which have excited admiring astonishment in Lord Kelvin, while another, named Chat- terjee, has......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1091.......