25 JUNE 1887, page 3

A Rumour Gathers Strength In Vienna That The King Of

Servia, who is distracted with troubles, political and domestic, intends to abdicate. He has taken a holiday to drink the waters at an Austrian bathing-place, and it is asserted......

It Is Certainly The Age Of Women. In Part I.

of the Cambridge Classical Tripes examination for 1887, there is no single male student placed in the first division of the first class; while miss Ramsay, of Girton College,......

The Discussion Of Thursday Night As To The Exclusion Of

girls from employment at the mouth of coal-pits, was decided by a majority of 76 (188 to 112) against interference. The Home Secretary, however, agreed to exclude both boys and......

Vienna Was On Wednesday Disturbed By A Report That Colonel

Matkoaroff, the Bulgarian Minister of War, had dismissed the Regents and proclaimed himself Dictator. There was no truth in it ; but it was not an absurd report. The latest plan......

The Jubilee Has Suppressed Polities For The Week. The...

has drawn a deep breath of relief at the momentary dis- appearance of the Irish nightmare, and scarcely any news, good or bad, has come in from abroad. A rumour obtained......

Sir A. West, At The Jubilee Dinner Of The Civilians

engaged in managing the Inland Revenue, mentioned a curiously significant fast. Under the Income-tax Acts, it is lawful for the towns to collect the tax under Schedules D and E,......

The Lord Mayor Gave A Dinner At The Mansion House

this day week to the representatives of Literature, Science, and Art, in which Dr. Smith, the editor of the Quarterly Review, was amongst those who responded for Literature, Sir......

Rather A Foolish Ceremony Came Off In The House Of

Commons on Thursday. The House on Monday resolved that a man, named Reginald Bidmead, had forged signatures to some petitions against the abolition of the London coal-duties,......

Lord Randolph Churchill Addressed This Day Week What Is...

the Trowbridge " Habitation " of the Primrose League. He of course congratulated his audience on the extraordinary popularity of the Primrose League; but this part of his speech......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 1O1 to unix&......