24 DECEMBER 1892, page 2

The Report Of The Committee Which Agreed To Inquire Into

the expenditure of the money received by" General " Booth for his "Darkest England" experiment has been published. The Committee, which secured Sir Henry James as Chairman,......

The Blenheim Orchids, A Splendid Collection Made By The Late

Duke of Marlborough, are for sale, and though the prices do not indicate any mania, they far exceed those usually paid for any book not valued for its rarity. One specimen, for......

Mr. Gladstone Has Gone To Biarritz For Three Weeks At

least. Ministers have dispersed to all parts of the Kingdom, and no more Cabinets will be held till the middle of January. It is evidently believed by those who have the beet......

We Deeply Regret To See That The Head-masters, In Their

annual Conference, passed on Thursday a resolution favouring the reservation of scholarships to the sons of those who need such pecuniary help. All may compete for them, but......

A Curious Correspondence Is Published In Tuesday's Times-...

Walsall Election petition. A suggestion appears to have been made to the unseated Member that if he could only arrange to let the Gladstonian candidate have a "walk-over," he......

Colonel Saunderson, Speaking At Lurgan On Monday,...

of Parliament which is going to open at the end of next month as probably the most important which this century has seen (Colonel Saunderson, of coarse, excepts the Session in......

We Confess We Did Not Believe The Story That Some

of the strikers at Messrs. Carttegie's Homestead Mills had endeavoured to poison the non-Unionists. The devotees, we thought, of the new gospel of Labour are capable of violence......

The Great Jewel Robberies Have Begun Again. On Sunday Night

Leigh Court, near Bristol, the residence of Lady Miles, was entered by adroit burglars, who found a safe, in which jewels were stored to the value of 230,000, wide open. The......