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A Statement Of Some Importance Has Been Issued As To

the overland route between Europe and China. It is officially declared that the line through Siberia will be ready next spring; that travelling, though slow, will be......

Lord Roberts, Who With Lord Kitchener And Captain Percy...

were the guests of the Fishmongers' Company on Tuesday evening, made an earnest appeal to employers of labour on behalf of the Reservists and discharged men. Within the last few......

Owing To The Much-regretted Absence Of The Bishop Of...

the Bishop of Leicester at Northampton on Tuesday opened the Church Congress as Acting President. His address was moderate in tone and spirited in manner. Naturally he touched......

Sir William Harcourt Delivered A Vigorous Fighting Speech...

constituents at Ebbw Vale on Wednesday night, the keynote being that the Government had given the Liberals a rallying. cry in the Education Bill. He deprecated "unauthorised......

Lord Hugh Cecil's Vigorous And Able Speech On The Education

Bill, made at Edinburgh on Tuesday, contains a Passage which deserves quotation. There was, he declared, one weak spot in the Bill as it was now framed. In a certain number of......

We Regret To Record That Mr. Kensit, Who Was Seriously

wounded the other day—a chisel was thrown at him by an unknown pa-son during a riotous scene at the close of one of his meetings—died in Liverpool Infirmary on Wednesday......

We Have, Unfortunately, No Space To Notice The Bulk Of

the papers read at the Congress, but we must draw attention to the admirable contributions to the subject of " Home Reunion" made by the Bishop of Ripon and Canon Henson. The......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent.

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 93i.......