14 MARCH 1896, page 3

The Times' Correspondent In Paris Fiercely Supports The...

the Budget Committee to M. Bourgeois' pro- posal of a graduated Income-tax. He describes it as a proposal to rob two hundred thousand French citizens who possess all the wealth......

Well. Informed People On The Continent Believe That Both The

Austrian and Italian Governments are seriously moved by the cleavage which has occurred between Great Britain and Germany. They fear that it will lead in the end, if France can......

The Irish Members On Thursday, In Pursuance Of Their Policy

of veiled obstruction, in a debate on Supply, raised the question of Ashantee, and drew from Mr. Chamberlain a full reply. The Government of Ashantee, he declared, had become an......

On Tuesday Mr. Massey - Main Waring's Resolution In Favour

of opening the national museums and art galleries in London on Sundays from 2 p.m. for a certain number .of hours was carried in the House of Commons,—the amendment moved in......

We Wonder Whether Those Who Sell Their Worn-out Horses For

exportation to France know of the kind of death to which they probably doom them.. A writer signing himself "M. Hadden," and writing from Walton-on-Thames, sends to the papers......

On Wednesday Lord Cranborne Introduced The Benefices...

both the first parts have been previously and separately introduced into the House of Commons and have passed their second reading, gone through the Grand Com- mittee, and......

The Rev. John England, Who Is One Of The Wesleyan

Chaplains to the Forces in the South-West of England, found that his position in that capacity had deceived the Bishop of Truro (Dr. Gott) into imagining him to be a clergyman......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

New Consols (2 1 4 9 were on Friday, 110.......