13 APRIL 1889, page 2

On Wednesday, Mr. W. H. Smith Was Entertained At The

Merchant Taylors' Hall by a large and representative com- pany of bankers and men of business, who availed them- selves of that opportunity to testify their value for his great......

A Second Bill Revolutionises The Constitution Of...

is at present somewhat grotesque, by providing that in future they shall be elected half by the owners of the soil and half by the ratepayers. There will be great differences of......

The Government Has Kept Its Promise To Extend Local Self-

government to Scotland, and its Bill for the purpose, introduced by the Lord Advocate on Monday, was received with very general approval. It transfers the government of the......

Sir George Trevelyan, Speaking At A Meeting Of Liberals At

Bethnal Green on Tuesday, made it a great crime on the part of the Liberal Unionists that they voted in the House of Commons rather with a view to strengthen the Govern- ment......

The Little State Of Luxemburg, With Its 1,000 Square Miles

and 200,000 inhabitants, is just now much in the papers. On the death of the King of Holland, who cannot recover, and on Tuesday was reported " sinking," Luxemburg passes by in-......

A Meeting Of The Home-rule Union Was Held In St.

James's Hall on Wednesday, under the presidency of Mr. Stuart, M.P., at which Sir William Harcourt made a speech and said that there was some ghost,—he did not explain of what......

Mr. Balfour's Speech Was Remarkable For The Allowance He...

for the Parnellite Party:—" When I recollect that a large number of those gentlemen are not by tradition accus- tomed to the methods of the House of Commons ; that they do not......