16 MARCH 1895, page 2

We Have Elsewhere Described The " Kanitz Plan "for Raising

the price of corn in Germany, which has so alarmed the Prussian Government. It is sure, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Times, to be rejected by the Committee on......

The Disposition Towards Direct Taxation On Property Must...

rapidly in France. Rentes have been considered the safest of all investments because they are held by such multi- tudes of investors, and because Frenchmen understand that good......

Mr. R. Sewell Read On Monday Before The Asiatic Society

a paper on some relics of Gautama or Buddha, now lying in the Central Museum in Madras. They consist of three pieces of bone taken from his corpse after cremation, and inclosed......

Every Now And Then The Outspokenness Of The Irish Members

becomes positively bewildering. Here is what is known in the picturesque vernacular of Irish politicians as a "blazing indiscretion" lately committed by Mr. Edward Harrington.......

Mr. Balfour, Who Followed Mr. John Morley, Took Occasion To

declare that he still held as much as ever to his former policy, that it is right to extend to Ireland a popular system of local government, though it is right also to insist in......

On Tuesday Mr. Robertson Explained The Navy Estimates....

have already dealt with, but may note that the Per- =anent works to be paid for by a loan will cost 29,000,000. Th's loan will be raised by terminable annuities running for......

Mr. Bryce On Tuesday Made A Speech At The Dinner

of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in which he prophesied tolerably cheerful things. Cycles of depression, he said, never lasted in this country more than six years, and we......

There Was An Amusing Debate On Wednesday On Mr. Crilly's

Board of Guardians (Ireland) Bill, of which the second reading was carried without a division ; but not till Mr. Morley had intimated that he had no intention of accepting all......