17 OCTOBER 1896, page 3

The Russian Press Grows More Friendly, And The French...

suit, but the German Press, probably under instigation from very high quarters, is angrier than ever. It is of course delighted with Lord Rosebery's confession that Great......

The Failure Of The Ordinary Rains In India Is, We

fear, pro- ducing a serious situation. At a meeting of the Legislative Connell in Simla on Thursday Mr. Woodburn acknowledged that distress would probably be sharp in about half......

It Is Stated That The American Venezuela Commission Is

about to report, and to report in a sense hostile to the British case. The statement is to some extent supported by the very serious view of the situation evidently entertained......

The Annual Address By The President Of The Incorporated Law

Society, Mr. Addison, given on Tuesday, strikes us as above the average of such speeches. It shows the usual jealousy of legal reform in the matter of land transfer, but is free......

The Sirdar, Major Wingate, And Slatin Pasha Have Reached...

where they will remain for the present,—a proof that Egypt will digest the province of Dongola before she makes another move. Meantime, the news from Merawi—Meroe, "where the......

The Daily News Of Thursday Quotes From A Newly Published

magazine, The Far East, some astonishing statistics of suicide in Japan. No disgrace attaches to self-slaughter among the Japanese, with the result that, on the average, about......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

New Consols (2.1) were on Friday, 108g.......