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The Guildhall Banquet On Lord Mayor's Day Produced No Great

sensation. Lord Beaconsfield did not announce a disso- lution, and indeed only said that "in all probability" he should next year have the honour of congratulating the Lord......

Sir Stafford Northcote, In Returning Thanks For The House Of

Commons, complained of Lord Hartington's assertion that, pending an appeal to the country, all interest had vanished from the debates of that assembly ; and compared it to the......

A Rumour That The Attorney-general, Sir John Biker, Who Has

returned his private briefs, was about to be raised to the Bench as Lord Chief Baron, was on Wednesday denied by Sir John, who telegraphed to Preston that his briefs have been......

A Story Is Current In Vienna That The Balkan States—servia,

Bulgaria, and Montenegro—have formed a league against Austria. If Austria tries to pass Novi Bazar, Sorvis, is to find 120,000 men, Bulgaria, 90,000; and Montenegro, 26,000,—all......

News Of The Week

L ORD SALISBURY is fidgetting with the Fleet " again. It was ordered to Vourla, then delayed ; and now it is to leave Malta on Monday, for some unknown point in Turkish waters.......

Count Schouvaloff, For Five Years Past Russian Ambassador...

British Court, has been relieved of his duties by Imperial decree, and will be succeeded, probably after some considerable interval, by Prince Lobanoff, now Ambassador at......