21 SEPTEMBER 1895, page 3

The Case Of Matricide At Plaistow Has Ended In A

most unsatisfactory way. It was clearly proved that the accused, Robert Coombes, a boy of thirteen, purchased a knife in order to kill his mother, and did kill her without......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

New Consols (2-1 1 ) were on Friday, 107f.......

A Character-sketch Of Archbishop Croke In, The Review Of...

has reopened the old controversy whether the Irish hierarchy would have thrown over Mr. Parnell even if the Non- conformist conscience had not been aroused, or whether they only......

This Is A Year Of Disasters At Sea. Friday's Papers

con- tain :accounts of the loss of two important vessels caused by collision,— one a Spanish man-of-war, and the other a Dutch mail steamer. On Wednesday at midnight the Spanish......

Statements Of The Misgovernment Of The Congo State Are...

fast. The Daily Telegraph of Tuesday pub- lishes a letter from an English gentleman high in authority in Uganda, in which he reports the evidence of a native - named Kadia, in......

English Judges Abroad Have Sometimes Strange Cases To...

few years ago the Chief Justice of Bombay—Sir Joseph Arnould, we think—had to settle a quarrel about a large revenue, the right to which depended upon the question whether a......

How Are We To Explain The Fascination Of Horror ?

Our -evening contemporaries will, we believe, acknowledge that the reports of the Plaistow trial were sold like those of a great political event or of the race for the America......

We Confess That This Threatened Production Of Documents...

move us much. Irishmen when they quarrel always wave papers which they threaten to publish if the other side does not take care, but somehow or other these terrible papers never......