2 JANUARY 1892, page 11

The Japanese Find Their Parliament Rather Unmanageable....

imitative of races, they have adopted repre- sentative institutions, and the power of making laws and con- trolling the Executive has been entrusted to a House of Commons. It......

The - Native Indian Congress Met This Year, On December...

Nagpore, almost in the centre of India, some eight hundred delegates being in attendance. A Madras Brahmin was voted to the chair, and the meeting, after expressing pro- found......

M. Ribot, The French Minister Of Foreign Affairs, On Monday

made another speech upon Bulgaria. He maintained that the Capitulations, under which no foreigner can be punished in Turkey without the intervention of his Consul, were......

Prince Christian Of Schleswig-holstein, The Ranger Of...

and husband of the Princess Helena, lost his left eye on Saturday at Osborne, in consequence of a, shot (believed to have been fired by the Duke of Connaught) getting reflected......

At The Godstone Petty Sessions Last Week, Charles Dodson,...

as a Wesleyan minister, but disowned by the Wesleyan Methodists as not belonging to their body,—was con- victed of gross cruelty to a pony, which he tortured with an......

Bank Rate, 3i Per Cent.

New Consols (2f) were on Thursday 95i.......

The Russian Famine Is Assuming Vast Proportions. A...

residing in Samara, declares in the Nineteenth Century that half the population of that province, 1,250,000 persons, are literally starving to death ; and. M. Levasseur, the......

Lord Grimthorpe Seized, Of Course, With Delight On An...

of killing two birds with one stone, when he found that thirty-eight ecclesiastics had fulminated against Mr. Gore, and that it was open to him to hit with the same missile both......