26 DECEMBER 1891, page 3

The Death On Sunday Of Mr. Peter Taylor, For A

long time M.P. for Leicester, marks the decay of a school of Radicals who were in many respects manlier and more stoical than the modern race. For one thing, Mr. Peter Taylor......

The " Imperial " Diamond Case In Calcutta Has Ended

in what seems to outsiders a most unsatisfactory way. The Nizam, according to his own statement, asked Mr. Jacob, the jewel-merchant of Simla, to bring him the "Imperial," an......

The Disturbances Going On In Brazil Are Of A Peculiar

kind. Province after province, it is said to the number of eleven, has risen, has cast out its Governor, and has elected a substi- tute, usually a soldier. The Central......

It Would Seem That In London And Its Neighbourhood At

all events, the old notion that a hard frost generally implies a clear, bright sky, is in a fair way to be dismissed altogether. We hardly ever have frost in London and its......

A Correspondent From Mashonaland Describes In The St....

on Monday, one of the weirdest of discoveries. There is in that wild region a hill called "the Hill of the Foot- steps," on the rock of which are imprinted a crowd of foot-......

The Archbishop Of Canterbury Made A Good Speech On Tuesday

in opening a new Polytechnic school at Croydon. He explained that its object was not to teach children trades, but to train them in that flexibility and receptiveness of body......

Archdeacon J. M. Wilson, Formerly Head-master Of Clifton...

from Rochdale Vicarage to Tuesday's Times, makes some excellent remarks on the astonishing declaration of the thirty-eight clergymen to whose judgment on the modern criticism of......

The Home-rule Papers Are Very Indignant When It Is Con-

tended, as Mr. Jesse Collings, for instance, with almost all the Unionists contends, that Irish Home-rule has got such a big front seat in the Gladstonian programme, that......

Bank Rate, 31 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Wednesday 951.......