31 MARCH 1888, page 3

The Court Of Cassation Has Quashed The Sentence Pro- Nounced

upon M. Wilson for selling decorations. The Judges find that the facts are fully proved, and that M. Wilson had consciously engaged in a disreputable traffic ; but they also......

The Americans Have At Length Pushed Their Dislike Of Asiatic

emigrants to its logical extreme. Under a Treaty already signed by the Government of Pekin, and about to be sanc- tioned. by the United States Senate, they prohibit the entrance......

It Is Apparently Etiquette In Berlin To Announce Every...

that, though the Emperor did not sleep well, his general health is decidedly improving. Nevertheless, on March 21st his Majesty signed a decree which virtually makes his son a......

Mr. Curzon's Scheme, As Represented In The National...

the reform of the House of Lords, is certainly open to the criticism of the Times that it would in all probability empty the House of Lords of the ablest Peers, and add them to......

The Situation In Bucharest Is Evidently Growing Strained....

ended in a great victory for M. Bratiaxio ; but the Opposition, who are Russian in sympathy, have been irri- tated almost to the point of insurrection. On Sunday a great meeting......

We May Judge Of The Chances Of Resistance To Mr.

Goschen'a Conversion scheme by what has already occurred in the case of the New Threes. The amount of that Debt is £166,000,000, and the stock held by the dissentients is.......

The Sudden Melting Of The Unusual Falls Of Snow Is

pro- ducing great disasters in Germany. The Elbe, the Rhine, the Vistula, and the Warthe, on which Posen stands, have all overflowed their banks, and are sweeping through the......

The Conference Of The South African Colonies And The Orange

Free State, which concluded its business on February 18th, resolved that the first step towards Federation must be a South African Union upon the basis of internal Free- trade.......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

Consols were on Thursday. 101f to 1011.......