27 MARCH 1886, page 3

In The House Of Lords Yesterday Week, Lord Thurlow Carried

his resolution in favour of opening. "national collections of art and literature" to the public on Sundays, by a majority of 14 (76 against 62). The argument, as usual, turned......

Mr. Justice Hawkins Often Does A Most Valuable Service To

the cause of justice by exposing and censuring the tricks of the Bar, of which he is a passed master. But-in therecent case of " Goosey v. Jardine," he seems to have-been......

The Indian Budget Was Published On Wednesday, And Shows For

1885-86 a revenue of £73,508,000, against an expenditure of £76,488,000, leaving a deficit of £2,890,000. This is due to the new frontier defences and the Burmese War ; but the......

Mr. Gladstone Has Received An Urgent Memorial From A Large

number of Liberal County Members, pressing for legislation on the subject of the Land Laws, the tithes, registration, and the amendment of the railway rates. The memorialists......

The Roman Catholic Bishop Bagshawe Has Been- Excommuni-...

Primrose League in the diocese of Nottingham, and thereby covering it with a. sort of glory more worthy of the primrose, than of the'.ratherfoolish league which has taken Lord......

A Correspondent Complains That We Last Week Described Kew...

as the most expensive of the London institutions pro- vided for by Parliamentary vote. That was not our intention, though we see the sentence will bear that reading. We meant to......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent. Consols Were On Friday 1001

to 1001.......

Three Bills For The Commutation Of Eitraordinary Tithe...

amending the mode in which ordinary tithe is com- muted, were discussed on Wednesday, read a second time, and referred finally to a Select Committee, which was empowered to......

A Statement Was Published In London On Wednesday Which, If

true, would have been of serious importance. It was reported both in the Daily News and Telegraph that according to letters just received from Durban, a telegram• had arrived......