17 FEBRUARY 1894, page 3

We Regret To Notice The Death Of Sir Harry Verney,

at the age of ninety-two. He was not the greatest of the squires, that position belonging to Sir Thomas Acland, but he was the greatest of the squires near London, and he ruled......

M. Jules Simon, Now Almost The Oldest Of French Statesmen,

las formulised a proposal, which has for some time been - floating about the political world, by which the insufferable burden of universal armament might be lightened. He pro-......

We Wonder Why Democrats Like Examinations So Much. The...

have always upheld them for the public service ; they would like to forbid the scholastic profession to un- examined men, they write sometimes—though this is academic —as if......

Bank Rate, 21- Per Cent. New Consols (2i) Were On

Friday 99i.......

The India Office Has At Last Decided Upon Its Silver

policy for the immediate future. This is clearly, according to a short speech made on Tuesday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to continue the effort to raise the value of......

In The Earlier Division, Nine Gladstonians Voted Against...

of them, Mr. Walter McLaren, because he- did not regard Mr. Cobb's amendment as a concession of any value, but most of the others because they wished to mark their sense of the......

At Newcastle, On Friday Week, Mr. Campbell-bannerman...

to protest against the action of the House of Lords. The ideal to which all Liberals adhered, was the giving of the vote to as many citizens as possible. "The more the merrier"......

There Was A Meeting Of Liberal Unionists At Devonshire House

on Thursday, which resulted, we think, in rather too strong a reaction against the rather too inflexible Toryism of lord Salisbury and his followers in the Lords. We suppose......