15 DECEMBER 1894, page 3

M. Ferdinand De Lesseps Died On December 7th, At The

age of eighty-nine. He was not a great engineer or a man of great insight, or even a great man of business, but he was the ideal promoter of our time,—a man of perfect personal......

The News Of The Week From Hungary Is Said To

be im- portant, and perhaps it is. It is believed in Buda-Pesth that the dominant party in Austria, which is Clerical, had deter- mined not to sanction the Hungarian Premier's......

A Writer In Tuesday's Times Who Signs Himself "d. D.,"

gives his word for it that he heard Mr. Bright,—himself, of course, strongly committed to the Disestablishment of the Church of England,—say, about seventeen years ago in a......

The Times Reports A Japanese Discovery Which May Prove Of

great commercial importance. Yokiehi Takamine, formerly a student in Glasgow, has succeeded in producing from the roots of the Eurotium Oryzie, crystals of diastase, the......

Lord George Hamilton, Who Took The Chair At The London

School Board on Thursday, gave the utmost satisfaction by his terse and admirable inaugural speech, in which he of course announced that as the first chairman elected from......

A Curious Story Is Reported In Wednesday's Daily...

if correctly reported, indicates singular nnwiadom in the conduct of a clergyman at a particular Parish Meeting. It is stated that at Welney, on the borders of Cambridgeshire......

Prince Holienlohe, The New Chancellor Of The German...

his work cut out for him. The Socialists are, of course, violently opposed to his repressive Bills, and so are the Liberals, and though the National Liberals support him and the......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1031.......