23 MAY 1896, page 3

The Birthday Honours Published On May 20th Hardly Call For

comment. Lord Salisbury does not distribute them eccentrically, but according to the regular custom, taking wealthy squires like Mr. E. Heneage and Colonel Malcolm of Poltalloch......

The Growing Feeling In The United States Against...

which recently found vent in a statute directed against paupers has now found expression in a measure which forbids the entry of illiterates. No person above eighteen who cannot......

The Duke Of Devonshire Spoke Twice At Swansea On Wednesday

to a Unionist audience, first to about five hundred persons in the Drill Hall, and next to a great evening meeting in the Albert Hall. In the former speech he dwelt especially......

Further, The Duke Spoke On The Education Bill, Pointing Out

how completely the Opposition are at sixes and sevens on the meaning and drift of this Bill, how they confound School Boards with Board-schools, and how it is the Opposition,......

The Dec D'orleans, According To Legitimist Theories...

France, has published a manifesto which greatly interests French Royalists. It is in the form of a letter to the Due d'Audiffret Pasquier, President of the Royalist Com- mittee,......

The Spanish Statesmen Are Evidently Growing Desperate...

is gravely stated that they have decided to .raise a loan of £40,000,000 sterling for the expenses of the war, and that in the early winter they will forward forty thousand more......

On Friday, May 15th, Lord Rosebery Addressed A Meeting Of

his party at the Butter Market, Newton Abbott, Devonshire. His speech was bright and pleasant in manner but shifty in matter. He did not see where the agricultural labourer came......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1121.......