27 MAY 1893, page 1

As To The Future, Lord Salisbury Insisted That The Question

of the reform of the House of Lords cannot be raised at a time when a definite duty is required of the existing House of Lords. "You cannot swap horses when crossing a stream."......

The Correspondent Of The New York Herald At New Granada

has furnished his paper with accounts of the pitched battle fought on May 20th between the Nicaraguan Government and the inSurgents. The Government had thirteen hundred troops,......

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Herr Miquel, The German Minister Of Finance, Declares...

can quite well afford the expense of the Army Bill ; but the figures with which he sustains his argument are unsatisfactory. What is the use of saying that this and that nation......

News Of The Week.

T HE leaders of the German Centre Party have published their manifesto, which is bitterly hostile to the Military Bill. They repeat that all relics of the Culturkampf must be......

Lord Salisbury Has Had A Splendid Reception In Ulster, And

the huge meeting in Belfast, which he addressed on Wednes- day, was, perhaps, more impressive in its personnel and its enthusiasm than any yet held there, not even excluding......