21 JULY 1888, page 3

On Thursday, The Foundation-stone Of The Monument Which...

stand on the Hoe to commemorate the destruction of the Armada, was laid by the Mayor of Plymouth. Over twenty thousand people assembled to witness the ceremony and to take part......

A Good Proportion Of The Remainder Of Mr. Gladstone's Speech

was devoted to the old problem of how the Irish Members are to be retained in the Parliament at West- minster consistently with the satisfaction of Irish demands, with the......

The Comte De Paris Has Written A Letter, In Reply

to an address presented to him by Paris workmen who wish to see the Monarchy restored. In his reply, the Comte says that the incapacity of the present rulers of the French......

Christmas Island—a Great Rock In The Indian Ocean—which...

annexed during the last ten days, cannot very well be reckoned as a new jewel set in the Crown of England, be its strategic uses never so important. The island consists largely......

Bank Rate, 24 Per Cent.

New Consols (24) were on Friday 994 to 994xd.......

Mr. Gladstone Made A Speech On Wednesday At A Dinner-

party of Sir Wilfrid Lawson's to the Northumberland and Cumberland Members. He spoke with satisfaction of the Local Government Bill, denuded though it is of many of its......

An Elaborate Correspondence Has Been Published Between...

Mr. Herbert Gladstone which took place in 1882, before and after the murder of Mr. Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish. The correspondence, so far as it had proceeded before Mr.......

Sir John Brand, The President Of The Orange Free State,

died last Saturday. His death is a calamity to the State of which he was a wise and thoroughly high-minded ruler, and a misfortune for this country, to whose policy he was......

The Discovery Of A Dynamite Plot In Chicago Shows How

deeply certain classes in the greatest city of Western. America are imbued with the anarchist doctrines. On Tuesday last the police made a raid on a suspected house, and there......