16 APRIL 1887, page 3

The Evidence Of The Incapacity Of Our Supply Departments...

till it is sickening. Mr. H. C. Burdett sends to the Times the history of an experiment made just after the Easter manoeuvres with the bayonets of the City of London Artillery......

Mr. Ritchie Was A Little Too Much Disposed To Taunt

the 'Opposition with following Mr. Gladstone blindly, especially as he distinguished Mr. Stansfeld amongst those blind admirers, whereas it is probable that Mr. Stansfeld was a......

Lord Randolph Churchill Delivered An Effective Speech At...

Thursday. After animadverting on the sudden- nen with which a revolutionary proposal was sprung upon an almost untried constituency, he refuted the calumny that the Irish people......

Bank Rate, 2i Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 1021 to 1021.......

A Most Unusual Disaster Has Broken The Continuous Calm Of

the transit between England and France. On the night of the 12th, the Victoria' left Newhaven with ninety-four passengers on board, and at about 3 a.m. steamed into a dense fog.......

The Victoria,' One Of Our Greatest Armoured Ships, Which Has

been built by the Elswick Company at Newcastle-on-Tyne, was launched this day week, and Sir W. Armstrong, in proposing the toast of " The British Navy " after the launch, drew a......

Mr. Gladstone Has Published In The English Historical...

comments on Mr. Greville's "Memoirs," of considerable historical interest. Ile prefaces them, however, by a still more interesting statement;—his own view of the utility of the......