2 JANUARY 1886, page 11

Sir Michael Hicks-beach Cannot Be Enjoying The Prospect...

Budget. The revenue from Customs, Excise, and Stamps continues to fall; and, unless a great improvement occurs in the last quarter of the financial year, will be more than a......

We Are Not Out Of The Soudan Yet By Any

means. The followers of Khalif Abdullah have now massed themselves in front of the British frontier garrison in such numbers that General 'Stephenson has felt it necessary to......

Lord 'cowper Also Writes A Very Interesting Letter To Wed-

nesday's Times on the subject, in which he asserts that Irish- men really care a great deal more about the Land Question than they care about political questions of any kind;......

The Sermons Which The Dean Of St. Paul's Has Preached

in the Cathedral during December as a substitute for Canon Liddon, are sermons which all Churchmen should read with the utmost care before they throw themselves into the Church......

It Seems That The Clerk Of The Works At The

British Museum who dismissed the labourer, Brightwell, and dismissed him, as it was inferred, for the evidence he gave as to the poisoning of the pigeons, is not under the......

- Mr. Devitt Replies To Lord Cowper's Letter That The Plain

issue put to Ireland by Mr. Parnell was this,—National self-govern- ment or not ? and-contends that the Land Question was not even nominally before the people. That is perfectly......

Bank Bate, 4 Per Cent.

Consols were on Thursday 9 Ito Vdtitcd.......

There Is One Member Of The New Parliament, Sir George

Harrison, already dead, and Mr. Childers has been asked to stand for South Edinburgh in his place. We heartily hope that he will be returned by much the same majority as that......

The Duke Of Argyll Addressed A Letter To Tuesday's Times

of great political force on the danger that the cry for a reform in Local Government may, through the intervention of the Irish question, be transformed into a cry for something......