12 SEPTEMBER 1896, page 3

Renter's Agency Has Received Some Information From Mr. A....

an experienced officer of the Congo State, as to the methods pursued by the Belgians in that region. He confirms the worst stories in circulation. He says the regions drained by......

There Will Be Much Discussion Presently About The Case Of

Major Watts. He was escorting a prominent Matabele chief named Makoni to confinement, but, apparently en route, tried him by a field Court-Martial, which condemned him to death.......

The Times In A Long Article On Tuesday Last Discusses

the ex- ternal and internal dangers which threaten the National Church, and gives a general support to the Church Reform League in- augurated last November at the Church House,......

The Commission Appointed Under Lord Rosebery's Adminis-...

1894, to consider the financial relations of England and Ireland, and which lost its chairman, Mr. Childers, by death at the beginning of this year (after losing Sir Robert......

Even To This Report There Were Added Five Supplementary...

by Commissioners who had signed this, the first by the chairman (the O'Conor Don), Mr. John Redmond, and three others, which concurs very much with Mr. Childers's draft report,......

Lord Grimthorpe Never Writes For The Newpapers Without...

put as many stings into his letters as there are sen- tences in them, and with a fair amount of success. The drift of his letters to the Times of Monday and Thursday on clerical......

The Interesting Paper In The Times Of Thursday On "a

Sheaf of Astronomical Discoveries," appears to show that a great many rocky islets, as we may call them,—planetary fragments of a minute kind,—are travelling about within no......

Bank Rate, 2* Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 111. •......