18 MAY 1895, page 3

The Bishops In Convocation Had A Debate On Thursday On

the scandal of the celebration in church of the marriage of a guilty divord, which took place recently at St. Mark's, North Audley Street, and there appears to have been......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1058.......

The Irish Members Are Not Going To Let The Statue

of Cromwell go through without opposition. On Tuesday Mr. Hayden significantly asked whether the cost of erection "would be derived from Irish as well as English taxes. It is......

The Committee On The Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill...

modicum of progress on Monday and Tuesday, but the debate on it in the Upper House of Convocation was much more important, as the new Bishop of Hereford (Dr. Percival) delivered......

Mr. Balfour Is Certainly The One Great Politician Of Our

day who can make almost any subject he touches interesting ; and on Wednesday he made a most interesting speech on the debt which the general public owe to the medical......

Mr. Lambert, The Member For South Moulton, On Wednes- Day

moved the second reading of his Bill for improving land- tenure. Its object is to give more security to farming tenants, and it goes very far. The tenant, for instance, when......

7 1 M. Ribot's Sketch Of The French Budget Is Mo

t unsatisfac- tory. The revenue of 1896 is estimated at t e enormous figure of £185,000,000, but even this leaves a eficiency of £2,000,000. Large retrenchments are most......

On Wednesday A Meeting Of The Women's Employment Defence...

was held at Mrs. Courtney's, to discuss the bearing of the new Factory Act on the condition of work- zing women. The discussion, which was opened by Miss Flora Shaw, was a very......