1 DECEMBER 1888, page 3

There Was An Amusing Little Discussion In The Commons On

Thursday, on an important point of ecclesiastical administra- tion. Mr. Howorth thinks that Bishops should retire when they grow old, and asked Mr. Smith if he was aware that......

The Lord Chancellor Unveiled On Wednesday, In The Law...

a bust of the late Sir George Jessel, for ten years Master of the Rolls, in the presence of a distinguished group of lawyers, who were all eager to do homage to the great......

In His Evening Speech, Sir G. Trevelyan Was Extremely...

in referring to what "Lord Spencer and I" did in Ireland. He made use of that great historical example only once. But he gave a promise, for which we should like to know his......

Mr. Gladstone Has Written A Letter To Mr. L. Dillon,

in which he includes the remarkable statement that Lord Hartington "appears to make the astonishing demand that the Irish people shall abandon all its national aspirations......

The Spanish Government Has Agreed To Propose, And Will...

carry, an immense extension of the suffrage, the franchise being bestowed on all males, not in the Army, of twenty-five years of age. The object is to strengthen Liberalism ;......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent.

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 96. to 961.......

The German Government Evidently Wishes For Some Assist-...

East Africa which the British Government is unwilling to afford. In a semi-official note which is going the round of the German Press, it is pointed out that the Sultan of......

The Result Of The London School Board Elections Is On

the whole, we think, satisfactory. It has given a majority to the Chairman, Mr. Diggle, and the policy of economy; but it has diminished the majority for that policy, and so far......

It Is Affirmed That The Financial Difficulties In The Way

of M. de Lesseps are for the present at an end. The Republican Government, in view of the discredit which a crash would bring upon French enterprise, and of the great secession......