19 NOVEMBER 1892, page 19

The London County Council Is Going Far In The Democratic

direction. Its proposal that ground-rents should be taxed like all other real property in cities is, at all events, arguable, and, if regard is paid to leases, reasonable ; but......

A Correspondence Has Appeared This Week Between Mr....

has resigned his place on the Evicted Tenants' Commission, and the head of that Commission, Sir James Mathew, on the subject of this resignation. Sir James Mathew says that in a......

Mr. Fowler, The Head Of The Local Government Board, Has

reissued the circular of 1886 (Mr. Chamberlain's, we believe) to the various Boards of Guardians, suggesting that any relaxa- tion of the rules against outdoor relief is......

The Political Contest Which Has Been Raging In Hungary Round

the pivot of the proposal to make civil marriage obliga- tory has ended in a complete victory for the Constitu- tionalists. The Emperor, who was reported to be greatly opposed......

The Russian Government, Pressed By The Great Outlay On The

famine, by the decline in certain receipts, caused also by the famine, and by its military expenditure, is once more in straits for money. Having quarrelled with the Jews, it......

Mr. Chauncey Depew Made A Speech To The New York

Chamber of Commerce, on Tuesday, at a dinner attended by Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Depew is a strong Republican, but he is also a humourist, and he was equal to the occasion. "I ex-......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

New Consols (n) were on Friday 97t.......

Sir Andrew Clark Delivered On Wednesday A Lecture In Favour

of experiments on living animals, in opening the new building of the Bristol Medical School and Faculty. He pro- fessed great sympathy with the opponents of Vivisection, but did......