On Monday, Sir Joseph M'kenna Raised A Debate In The

House of Commons on the comparative weight of taxation in Ireland and Great Britain. He maintained with Mr. Giffen that Ireland paid into the Exchequer 23,200,000 more than she......

The Archbishop Of York, In Opening The Convocation Of The

Northern Province on Tuesday, expressed his intention to get the help of a lay body, consisting of one hundred members, for his Northern Synod, but said nothing of what seems to......

The Association For Church Reform, Of Which Mr. Albert Grey,

Lord Camperdown, Lord Wolmer, and others are the pillars,—or, as the Archbishop of York would term them, "the ill-adjusted buttresses,"—does, however, appear to aim at reforming......

It May At Last, We Think, Be Taken As Certain

that peace is for the present secured in the Balkan Peninsula. The King of Servia, after calling out his last Reserves, and declaring his inflexible resolution to conclude no......

It Is Strange To See Prince Bismarck Repeating In Prussian

Poland the British mistakes in Ireland. Instead of winning the Poles, as France undoubtedly won the Germans of Alsace, he is trying the Cromwellian policy of expulsions, and the......

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Everybody Seems A Little At Sea About One Question Connected

with the annexation of Burmah. The House of Commons voted on Monday, by 297 to 82, that the expense of the annexation, only 2300,000, should be paid by India ; but the 82 object......

A Remarkable Return, Quoted In The Standard Of Monday Last,

seems to supply another reason for the speedy passing of a Shipping Bill. The Marine Insurance Companies are shown to have had anything but a profitable year in 1885. Their......