15 AUGUST 1896, page 3

We Learn From Wednesday's Times That Sir Benjamin Baker, The

arbitrator to whom the Boilermakers' Society and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers agreed to refer their dispute as to the construction of water-tube boilers for Messrs.......

The Dowager Lady Tennyson Died On Monday, But Not Till

she had completed, we are told, the revision of the proofs of the biographical portion of her husband's Life, in the prepara- tion of which she had taken the liveliest interest.......

The Paris Correspondent Of The Times Gives A Curious Account

of an interview granted by M. 011ivier to a newspaper reporter on the twenty-sixth anniversary of his fall. France, he declares, was assured of the alliance of Austria and......

We Referred Last Week, With Cordial Assent, To Lord...

suggestion that in revising the fair rents, the land itself ought not to be revalued, considering that these revaluations play directly into the hands of the tenants who have......

The Indian Budget Was Discussed On Thursday In A Some-

what perfunctory debate. The closed accounts of 1894-95 show an actual surplus of Rx.693,100. The revised esti- mate for 1895.96 shows a surplus of Rx.900,000, while the......

The Observations Of The Total Eclipse Of The Sun Made

at Vadso, in the extreme north-east of Norway, were, like those in Japan, from an astronomical point of view, a failure—the sky was obscured by mists—but for all that the......

The House Of Lords Assembled Yesterday Week In Much Less

bellicose attitude towards the Irish Land Bill; and Lord Lansdowne's new clause as to the cutting of turf by tenants was read. It provided that when the tenant had enjoyed the......

The Most Important Decisions Taken In The House Of Com-

mons on Wednesday when considering the Lords' amend- ments to the Land Bill were that they disagreed (by 176 to 24) with the amendment carried by Lord Cloncurry excluding from......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

New Consols ('2) were on Friday, 113 d.......