20 MARCH 1886, page 3

Mr. Arthur O'connor On Tuesday Tried To Induce The House

of Commons to crush Messrs. W. H. Smith and Co. He declared that the great newsdealing firm made £148,000 a year out of the London papers—an exaggeration—and moved that it......

Mr. Finlay Moved The Second Reading Of His Declaratory Bill

asserting the ecclesiastical independence of the spiritual Courts of the Established Church of Scotland on Wednesday, urging on its behalf that it did not alter the law, but......

Mr. Take Wishes Ns To State That He Can Neither

read nor answer just now the replies to his letters. He is studying and relieving distress on the West Coast of Ireland, which, owing to a failure of the potato, is growing......

On Tuesday, The Bishop Of Peterborough Made Both A Very

eloquent and a very amusing speech in favour of free sittings in the National Churches, and against the appropriation of pews which is so common. The Bill, however, of which he......

It Is Stated That 10,000 Europeans Are Being Added To

the military establishment in India, thus raising the white force to nearly 70,000 men. That number will, therefore, be added to the Army Estimates, so that the force at home......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent. Consols Were On Friday 100','

to 1001.......

Lord Wentworth Writes A Very Modest And Very Sensible Letter

to Thursday's Times, disapproving, as Lord Byron's grandson, of the proposal to get up a centenary celebration of Byron's birth two years hence, unless the great majority of......

Mr. Baron Dowse Has Reported A Great Growth Of Serious

crime in'Kerry, where there are three hundred cases of crime specially reported ; and in Galway, Chief Justice Morris reports a very grave increase of crime, where there are......

Dr. Cameron Moved The Rejection Of The Bill In A

speech which showed that he regarded the Bill rather as an endeavour to tempt the laity of the Free Church back into the Established Church without their ministers, than as an......