21 MARCH 1896, page 3

Mr. Byrce Delivered An Interesting Lecture Last Saturday...

Souls' College, Oxford, on the Dutch Republics in South Africa, which has, however, been very imperfectly re- ported. He spoke of the Orange Free State as one which had adopted......

Mr. Havelock Wilson Raised A Question Of Privilege In The

House of Commons on Tuesday night concerning an article in the St. James's Gazette on the result of the recent trial, in which he obtained only one farthing damages for the......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent. ' New Console (2i) Were

on Friday, 1091.......

A Remarkable Tablet Was Unveiled On Thursday By The Duke

of Fife in a classroom in the schools of the parish of All Saints, Mile End New Town, commemorating the purchase of the free- hold of the schools erected by the efforts of the......

The Colonial Party In Germany Has Received A Severe Blow.

Their opponents have repeatedly accused the Govern- ment of choosing bad men for Colonial office, and during a long debate which ended on Tuesday, Dr. Peters, the chair- man of......

India Has Recovered From Its Financial Depression, As It...

does. Sir J. Westland read his statement at Simla on Wednesday, showing that owing to the recovery in exchange, improvements in opium, and savings in military expenditure, the......

Nothing Can Show More Strikingly The Change That Has Passed

over Oxford than the grant to Principal Fairbairn, the Principal of Mansfield College, in the Oxford Convocation of Tuesday, of the degree of MA. by a majority of 94 against 29.......

A Very Interesting Account Was Given, In The Westminster...

of last Wednesday, of an exhibition by Mr. Herbert Newton of what the Röntgen rays could do in the way of casting shadows through an apparently opaque object on to a screen......