1 NOVEMBER 1884, page 3

It Is Said That The Tories Seriously Intend To Call

for a Com- mission of Inquiry into the state of trade and agriculture, and on Wednesday Mr. Chaplin delivered an address upon that subject. He wanted an inquiry, he said,......

The Extraordinary Ignorance Which Still Exists As To The...

economical laws, is well illustrated by a recent corre- spondence between Mr. Fawcett and some stupid people, who complain that the paper for postage-stamps is bought abroad.......

An Attempt Has Been Made In Letters To The Times,—which

receive a certain amount of encouragement from that journal, —to advocate the appropriation of the incomes of Deaneries to Suffragan Bishoprics, and to abolish the Deans......

The Debate Raised By Sir Henry Holland On Wednesday About

South Africa, did not advance matters much, though it elicited a speech of some importance from Mr. Ashley. It is clear from that speech that the Government refuse to deal with......

Lord Malmesbury, Whose Reminiscences And Whose Sagacious...

have criticised in another column, has had almost more success than his rather confused memories of his youth deserved in eliciting a letter, first from Lord Blachford, and then......

Paris Is, It Appears, Vexed With The Same Problem As

London, —the failure of the price of bread to decline with the price of flour. So great is the discontent caused by the present price of the manufactured article, that the......

Canon Maccoll Has Achieved A Remarkable Success In The City

by uniting with him the Nonconformists of his parish in an earnest effort to enlarge the usefulness of his church in Botolph Lane. On Thursday, the Dean of St. Paul's preached......

The Times Correspondent In Paris Wishes Greatly For...

between France and China, and recommends a plan of campaign to M. Ferry which is positively absurd. He advises that the coast of China should not be attacked, that Formosa......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Oent. Consols Were On Friday Loci+

to lool.......