19 DECEMBER 1896, page 3

It Is Quite Evident That The Triple Alliance Is Growing

weaker, partly through the pressure of new circumstances. The Austrian Government, which, for all its professions, was by no means pleased with the revelations as to the Secret......

Mr. John Dillon Spoke At Glasgow On Monday On The

alliance between the Irish party and the Radicals. If the Radicals stuck to the Irish party, the Irish party would give them their enthusiastic support, often even though they......

France, It Would Seem, Likes Worrying, But Does Not Like

to be worried. For years past the chiefs of her Foreign Office have opposed English wishes at every point through- out the world in order that they might be able to say, " See......

The Universality Of The French Feeling For Russia Was...

illustrated on Thursday. The vote was proposed for the fetes to the Czar, and it was expected that the Socialists, now a powerful group in the Chamber, would resist it to......

The Reports Of Last Week From The Indian Famine Area

are, on the whole, more hopeful ; but the danger is not over, especially in the Punjab, part of the North-West, Behar, Central India, and Assam. Prices of food are every- where......

Mr. Wallace, M.p. For East Edinburgh, Delivered A Clever...

on " Cant " to the London Fife Association on Monday at Anderton's Hotel. He derived the word from "chant,"—the sing-song in which beggars whine, as, for instance, "Spare a......

India Appears To Be Precisely In The Position Which All

Bryanites allege to be true of all the West and South of the United States. There is not money enough in the banks for commercial purposes. The Government holds the great......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent.

New Consols (2- 1 1) were on Friday, 1101.......