12 APRIL 1890, page 2

The Duke Of Cambridge, In A Speech At Portsmouth On

Monday, made a remark which may be of considerable im- portance. "He supposed he was coming very near to the end of his career, and he was glad to think that during the brief......

The Home Secretary, After The Usual Review Of All The

evidence in the Crewe murder, decided that George Davies, the younger of the lads convicted, who was only sixteen, was too young for execution, and accordingly commuted his sen-......

Mr. W. H. Smith Made A Short Speech At Henley

on Wed- nesday, in which he indulged in the vain aspiration that Members of the House of Commons would not insist on using the same arguments over and over again, very seldom......

Mr. A. J. Liounteney Jephson, Perhaps The Best Of Mr.

Stanley's officers, protests in the Times against the small modicum of praise given to his Zanzibari followers, and the general indifference to the interests of the Negroes, the......

The French Government Is Seriously Hampered In Its...

by the reluctance of the peasantry, and possibly of the soldiers also, to allow conscripts to be sent on distant tropical expeditions. It could, for instance, take pos- session......

The German Emperor Has Issued Another Important "imperial...

time to the Army. His Majesty complains that he cannot complete the equipment required by recent additions to the strength of the Army for want of officers, and that this want......

The Roman Correspondent Of The Times Announces That A Grand

financial crash in the capital of Italy can no longer be avoided. The Municipality has overspent its resources in the maddest way, and stories are rife of the wildest......