2 NOVEMBER 1889, page 3

The Furnessia,' Of The Anchor Line, Arrived In The Thames

on Thursday with Mr. Barnum's new and enormous menagerie. In ten days' voyage, only four animals had died,—two horses, an ibex, and a monkey. Yet there were 200 horses, 16......

Mr. Gladstone Made An Interesting Speech This Day Week In

opening the new Literary Institute at Saltney, a suburb of Chester. He dwelt chiefly on the extraordinary change for the better in the general condition of the working class......

The Times' Correspondent In Vienna Declares That The...

is now in possession of a new and for- midable explosive, the discovery of two engineers. It is called " ecrasite," and is of the nature of dynamite ; but its force is to that......

A Correspondent Of The Standard Published On Wednesday An...

of some cricket-matches which has in it something of the pathetic as well as curious. The matches are played by the students of the College for the Blind at Worcester, who use a......

Prince Ferdinand Of Bulgaria, According To The Vienna...

the Times, who is seldom inaccurate unless Austrian statesmen deceive him, has prospered greatly in his recent journey. He has secured the loan of a million for his Principality......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent. New Consols (21) Were On

Thursday 961 to 97.......

Lord Derby Made One Of His Sensible Speeches On Monday

at Ormskirk, while giving prizes in the Grammar-School there, and said he thought the Act of 1870 had done most useful work, reducing the totally ignorant class to an......

Mr. G. J. Symons Writes To Monday's Times That London

is quite an unsafe place in which to show evidence of having a good watch, at least as regards those quieter thoroughfares where it is impossible to have police always on the......

The London County Council Has Decided, We See, To Raise

its first loan at 2i per cent., accepting the best offers it can get above 88. It should raise the money easily at 93, two points below the price of 21 Consols, the security......