15 JULY 1899, page 3

The Result Of The St. Pancras Election Was Declared On

Wednesday evening. The figures were : Mr. Thomas Wrightson (C.), 2,610; Mr. B. F. C. Costelloe (L.), 2,423, —that is, a Conservative majority of 187. At the last two elections......

Lord Curzon Clearly Does Not Believe The Elective...

be applicable to India. A reform was proposed in the muni- cipal government of Calcutta which the progressive party re- sisted, as not being liberal enough, but the Viceroy has......

On Friday Week Mr. Asquith, In The Course Of A

speech at the reopening of Wesley's Chapel in the City Road, praised Wesley specially for his "instinct of government" and for his "concentration." "He had, in a degree which so......

In The House Of Lords On Tuesday The Duke Of

Westminster moved the second reading of the Seats for Shop Assistants Bill, which had passed through the House of Commons with- out opposition. Lord Shand, who moved the......

In The House Of Lords On Friday, July 7th, Lord

Lansdowne introduced his scheme for furbishing up the Militia ballot and getting it ready for use in case of necessity, though he by no means pledged himself to legis- lation......

The Pones Of Commons Has Been Chiefly Occupied During The

week with the discussion, or perhaps we should more truly say the obstruction, of the Tithes Rating Bill by the Opposition. On Thursday there was an all-night sitting, with......

It Has Long Been Suspected That There Was Some Under-

ground connection between French Royalists, most of whom are Clerical, and the Anti-Semites, and it would now appear to be almost proved. The Gazette de France publishes a......

On Friday, July 7th, Mr. Balfour And Lord Cadogan Received

a very weighty and important deputation of pei sons interested in the proposed Irish tunnel. Mr. Barton, one of the civil engineers interested in the scheme, declared that the......

Bank Rate, 31- Per Cent.

New Consols (2) were on Friday 1064.......