3 DECEMBER 1892, page 19

The Astounding Wastefulness Of American Representatives...

the annual Report of the Pension Commissioner, just presented to Congress. He claims credit for economy in his department, saying that the pensions for this fiscal year will......

The International Monetary Conference At Brussels Has...

interesting. It was supposed that it would confine itself to abstract propositions ; but on Monday Mr. Alfred de Rothschild, one of the English delegates, proposed that if the......

Mr. Cecil Rhodes, Managing Director Of The British South...

Company, made a speech to his shareholders on Tues- day in the Terminus Hotel, Cannon Street, the persuasive merit of which may be judged from a single fact. His audience were......

The Lincoln Judgment Has Frightened One Protestant Vicar,...

of New Malden, Surrey, into resignation. In a letter to the Bishop of Rochester, printed in last -Saturday's Times, he declares that the Lincoln judgment ". has rendered it......

The Times' Correspondent In Berlin Evidently Believes...

agitation in Germany is growing more serious. An excessively violent representative of the party, Herr Ahlwardt, has just obtained a majority for the Reich- stag, though he has......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

New Consols ( 2k) were on Friday 97.......

We Are Happy To Notice That The Exaggerated Rumours Cur-

rent this week about Lord Derby's health are formally denied. Lord Derby has been ill with asthma, but is re- covering. Lord Derby is almost out of politics, but the country has......

The Municipality Of Cork Has Elected A Parnellite To The•

office of Mayor by a junction of the Conservatives with the Parnellites. The Council contains twenty-two Anti-Parnellites,. fifteen Parnellites, and seventeen Conservatives.......

Lady Stanley Of Alderley, Mrs. Fawcett, Mr. T. W. Russell,

and Mr. H. 0. Arnold Forster, bring before the public, in Tues- day's Times, a very pitiable case of suffering and penury resulting from one of the cruel acts of Irish violence.......