16 MARCH 1889, page 3

The Ex-king Of Servia Is Extremely Anxious To Make It

clear that he abdicated from patriotic motives. He told the corre- spondent of the Neue Preie Presse that he felt he could not endure to be a roi faineant or constitutional......

At The Mansion House Meeting In Aid Of The Metropolitan

Association for Befriending Young Servants (18 Buckingham Street, Strand), at which the Lord Mayor made so earnest an appeal for further funds for that most useful Association,......

Mr. Gladstone Has Written A Letter To Mr. Beaufoy To

help him in his canvas for Kennington, in which he makes much of the defeat on Wednesday of the Bill for entitling prisoners under the Irish Crimes Act to exceptionally good......

Mr. J. O'connor On Wednesday Moved The Second Reading Of

his Bill requiring that persons imprisoned under the Crimes Act should be treated as first-class misdemeanants. His main argument, apart from attacks on the Chief Secretary and......

Lord Derby's Speech At The Meeting Of Kent Unionists On

Tuesday, was one of those perfect efforts of impartial state- ment which read as if man were really a being of "pure reason,"—instead of having about 1 per cent. of "pure......

The St. James's Hall Demonstration Against The Govern-...

Wednesday was much more violent than weighty. Mr. Morley wound himself up into talking a good deal of nonsense. Indeed, no one who had followed the story of the reiterated......

Lord Hartington, In A Speech Marked By Even More Than

his usual dignity and force, delivered on Wednesday, at Holloway Hall, West Islington, pointed out that the great question of the day is this,—" Whether law, as constituted by......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday 971 to 97i.......