29 JULY 1893, page 3

The Strike Has Not Actually Begun In The Coal Trade,

but it seems unlikely that it can now be averted. Meantime, the secretaries of the Federated Coalowners have published a statement of their case. In 1888, certain advances in......

On Monday, In The House Of Lords, Lord Cadogan "

asked her Majesty's Government on what principle the present Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland had acted with reference to the acceptance or refusal of addresses." Lord Cadogan re-......

On Tuesday, The Affairs Of The London County Council Were

before both Houses of Parliament. In the Lords, Lord Onslow carried by 19 (55 to 36) a resolution declaring in effect that the betterment scheme incorporated with the London......

The French Yellow-book On Egypt, Published In Paris On...

July 21st, contains an interesting account of how M. Waddington tried last autumn to pin Mr. Gladstone down to a promise of evacuation, and of how the great opportunist con-......

Mr. Digby Pigott, Writing To The Times Of Thursday, Gives

a charming idyll of the lake in St. James's Park. On the 8th of this month a dabchick'a nest, " made fast to the dipping boughs of a black-poplar," broke from its moorings and......

On Saturday, Lord Randolph Churchill Met His Constituents...

Paddington, and received their hearty assent to his contesting Mr. Shaw-Lefevre's seat in Central Bradford at the next General Election. They resolved, moreover, to return Lord......

On Friday, July 21st, Prince Bismarck, In Receiving A Depu-

tation from the Duchy of Brunswick, made one of his " nasty " speeches. During the past twelve months he had been "the object of the most flattering attentions from various......

Ban1f Rate, 21 Per Cent.

New Consols (2k) were on Friday 98H----11.......

On Tuesday, Winchester College Celebrated The Five-...

its foundation with all the pomp and ceremony required by a " Quingentenary,"—that is the appalling word applied to the event. The chief incidents of the day were the holding of......

The Times Of Wednesday Gives An Apposite Account Of The

river Mekong, which, rising in Tibet, flows down the Indo- Chinese peninsula, dividing it into two unequal parts. After leaving Chinese territory, the river flows through one of......