26 MAY 1900, page 3

The Birthday Honours This Year Are Not Specially Remark-...

Two Irish lawyers are made Peers,—Lord Morris, the ex-Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and Sir Peter O'Brien. Sir Richard Webster also becomes a Peer, and Lord Strathcona is given a......

Mr. Chamberlain And The Australian Delegates Are To Be...

on the sound and reasonable compromise arrived at by them, and announced in the House of Commons on Monday night. It is that in all cases other than those where purely......

The Decennial Representation Of The Passion Play At...

last Sunday, and the spectators, who numbered some four thousand, seem to be unanimous in saying that it has not deteriorated. The acting of the new Christ, Anton Lang, is......

There Is An Interesting Study Of Lord Roberts In The

Daily Mail of Tuesday, from the pen of the American war- correspondent, Mr. Julian Ralph. The change in the men was "instant and bone-deep " when it became known he was coming......

The Election In The Isle Of Wight To Fill The

vacancy caused by Sir Richard Webster's elevation to the Bench has resulted in the return of the Unionist candidate, Captain Seely, by a majority of 1,062 over his opponent, Mr.......

Lord Avebury Moved The Second Reading Of The Early Closing

Bill in the House of Lords on Tuesday. The measure proposed that two-thirds of the shopkeepers in any locality should be authorised if they thought fit to memorialise the local......

To-day The Admiralty Is Going To Carry Out A Series

of gunnery experiments which will delight the schoolboy side of every man in the nation. The old and useless coast. defence ship, the ' Belleisle,' with her guns on board, sur-......

Bank Rate, 3/- Per Cent. New Consols (2) Were On

Friday 101/.......