14 JUNE 1890, page 3

The Standard And The St. James's Gazette Intimate That The

negotiations between Germany and Great Britain about Africa may end in a compromise of which these are the main lines. Germany would stretch her East African dominion from the......

The Popular Party Both In Germany And Austria Is Greatly

excited by new demands from the Ministries of War. It is stated that the sums asked by General Verdy du Vernois, now head of the German Army, for more men (54,000 in all), more......

Professor Jebb Delivered A Very Interesting " Rae...

Cambridge on Wednesday in the Senate House on Erasmus, whom he endeavoured to clear from the charge of having been something of a Laodicean in his religion. According to......

The Real Senior Wrangler This Year Is A Lady, Miss

Philippa Fawcett, the daughter of the late Postmaster-General, who was himself seventh wrangler thirty-four years ago, in 1856, two years before the accident that robbed him of......

The House Of Lords On Monday, By 119 Votes To

45, rejected Lord Meath's Bill allowing women to sit as County Councillors. Lord Meath did not travel out of the usual arguments ; but Lord Derby produced the far-reaching one......

We Deeply Regret To Have To Record The Death On

Tuesday of Dr. John Oakley, Dean of Manchester, at the age of 56. He was one of those clergymen who are at least as much philan- thropists as divines, and his sympathy with the......

Bank Bate, 3 Per.zent.

New Consols (24) were on Friday 974 to 974......

London Has Been Fretted This Week By A Determined Effort

on the part of all vestries to increase assessments, sometimes in the most oppressive way, the assessed value being fixed greatly in excess of the entire rack-rent. According to......