24 MAY 1890, page 3

The Government Of Germany Denies Semi-officially The...

inclination towards a Russian alliance, and General von Caprivi, writing to a Committee of the Reichstag, declares that the only thing he has to tell them is that Germany......

Sir William Harcourt Spoke In The Town Hall, Bermondsey, On

Tuesday. He congratulated himself and his party, and Mr. Courtney, the Chairman of Committees, on the success with which they had resisted the application of the Closure during......

The French Government Is Evidently Determined That It...

relax its hold upon the details of government in Egypt. M. Ribot has assented at last to the conversion of part of the Egyptian Debt, but upon extraordinarily mean conditions.......

'the Trustees Of The British Museum Have Got Hold Of

a great curiosity in the shape of a Chinese bank-note printed in the middle of the fourteenth century, several years before the establishment of the first European bank (said to......

The Bishopric Of St. Albans, Which Had, It Is Said,

been offered to Dr. Liddon, and was by him declined, is to be con- ferred on the Rev. John Wogan Festing, Vicar of Christ Church, Albany Street. Mr. Festing is a graduate of......

Mr. Chamberlain Presided On Monday At The Annual Meeting Of

the Committee of the Birmingham Liberal Unionist Asso- ciation, and made an admirable speech, in which he showed how absurd it was to treat a Government which had gone far......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent. New Consols (2f) Were En

Friday 98ito 98i.......

A Bronze Statue To The Late W. E. Forster Was

unveiled last Saturday in Forster Square, Bradford, by the Marquis of Ripon, who had acted with him when he was Vice-President of the Council of Education (Lord Ripon being Lord......

Lord Wemyss On Monday Made A Wildly Discursive Speech In

the Upper House against Socialistic legislation, which means, in his mouth, any legislation not intended to put down crime or free men from restrictions. During the five years,......