16 MAY 1896, page 3

A Banquet Was Given On Tuesday By The Metropolitan Division

of the National Union of Conservative and Consti- Antional Associations in honour of her Majesty's Ministers, at -which Mr. Balfour spoke. He commented on the singular victory......

We Are Delighted To See That The Hon. Artillery Company

of Boston, the Transatlantic counterpart of our own Hon. Artillery Company, and a body with a history quite as interest- ing and distinguished—it was founded in 1639—is going to......

On Wednesday Mr. Chamberlain Was Present At A Meeting Of

the Cordwainers' Company (cordwainer means shoemaker) at their hall in Cannon Street, the object of the meeting being to unveil a memorial window to the memory of Mr. John Came......

The Duke Of Bedford On Wednesday Made A Long Speech

to his tenantry at Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire, which is full of curious statistics. He declares that although his family have in the last eighty years spent £1,598,000 in......

All Foreign Action In Russia Is Now Halting In View

of the Coronation, the ceremonials for which are immediately about to begin. Foreign Princes are arriving in Moscow literally by the dozen, and Asiatic Princes are as common in......

Archbishop Ireland, An American Prelate Who Is Said To Be

an American of the Americans, addressed the Loyal Legion at St. Paul last Sunday, in favour of war, as against arbitration. He does not agree with Cardinals Vaughan, Gibbons,......

On Wednesday The House Of Commons Went Into Com- Mittee

on the Rating Bill. All the instructions were ruled out of order by the Speaker except that of Mr. Knox, the Member for Derry, which proposed to extend the pro- visions of the......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1121.......