25 NOVEMBER 1893, page 2

The Progress Of The Local Government Bill Is Slow Enough.

The Committee are still engaged on the second clause, and the discussions of the week have chiefly resulted in two changes. The first we understand to be the acquiescence of the......

Prince Alexander Of Battenberg, Once Prince Of Bulgaria,...

Friday, November 17th, at his castle of Hartenau, near Gratz, of ulcer of the bowels. He was only thirty-six, but he had had a marvellous life. A son of a Hessian Prince by a......

Sir Mortimer Durand Has Arrived In Peshawur Safe And Whole,

and very well content. It is not probable that a full account of the negotiations will be presented even to Parliament, for reasons of public policy, but some main points in the......

The Attorney-general Made A , Speech On Wednesday In The...

Hall, Bristol, in which he gave-in his adhesion to the policy of Mr. Asquith, Mr. Camp1)011-Bannerman, Sir George Trevelyan, and other Members of the Cabinet, who go in, like......

The Other Change Is The Decision Come To On The

subject of the vote of married women for any Local Government election. Last Thursday week, Mr. McLaren defeated the Government on the subject of these married women's votes.......

Mr. Gladstone Has Been Memorialised By The Irate...

the Lord Chancellor lectured last week on his responsi- bilities with regard to the County Bench, and be has replied, in one of his most cautious letters, vindicating Lord......

On Thursday, The Employers' Liability Bill Was Read A Third

time and passed, after a vigorous protest from Mr. Chamberlain, who thinks that the Bill will prove to be much more mischievous than salutary. It omits, he says, to provide, by......

The Coal Strike Is Over, Having Lasted Sixteen Weeks. The

twenty-eight representatives of the Federated Coalowners and the Miners' Federation, who met on Friday week, decided, after a discussion of four hours and a half, that the men......