27 APRIL 1889, page 3

Lord Selborne Made A Very Effective Speech At The Birming-

ham Conference on Thursday, covering the whole ground of the Home-rulers, and insisting on the fact that since the time of Catholic Emancipation, no part of the United Kingdom......

A Wild Story Comes From St. Petersburg, Possibly With Some-

thing in it. The Russian police have recently become aware, through some arrests in Zurich, that the Nihilists are resuming their plots against the Czar's life, and this week......

Mr. Auberon Herbert Complains In The Times, With Justi-...

bitterness, that even an Act of Parliament specially passed for that end cannot protect the trees of the New Forest. The Act of 1877 specially provides that " the ancient......

Mr. Goldwin Smith, In An Interesting Though Rhetorical...

in the Times of Tuesday, expresses his belief that Americans are growing tired of their political submissive- ness to the Irish. This submissiveness, he says, has extended from......

Lord Derby, Contrasting " The Paper-union " With " The

Union of Hearts," said that the former is at least a substantial fact, while the latter is at best problematical. There is no use in counting on gratitude, because political......

Mr. Morley On Monday Made A Speech To His Constituents

at Newcastle on economic subjects, of which we have said enough elsewhere, and on Thursday he addressed them on political topics. He was very emphatic on the necessity for a new......

Since Commenting Last Week On Sir John Lubbock's Reply To

Sir Henry Roscoe, Mr. Picton, and the other Home- rulers of the University of London, we have seen a full report of his very terse and able speech, which is so pithy and......

The Astounding Proposal Of The Edinburgh Town Council To...

the freedom of the city on Mr. Parnell while the character of his political conduct during the last ten years is still under the investigation of a Judicial Commission, is ex-......

Bank Rate, 21 Per Cent.

New Console (20 were on Friday 98,1 to 981.......