_year's Estimates :—
ESTINA7'ES. ACTUAL YTELD. Customs 22,000,000 ...... 22,650,000 Excise 20,700,000 20,162,000 Stamps 9,340,000 9,541,000 Assessed Tax 3,500,000 3,509,000 Income Tax 6,000,000......
A Conference Was Held This Day Week At The Architectural
College, Conduit Street, on the proposed residential College for Women of which we gave our readers a brief notice some weeks ago. The Dean of Canterbury took the chair, and it......
Mr. Ward Hunt Introduced His Bill Enabling The State To
absorb the Telegraphs on Wednesday. Mr. Hunt made a very poor speech, apparently from want of time, but we hope to discuss his Bill more fully next week, when we shall not be......
Belgium Has Been The Scene Of Serious Riots, Chiefly In
the mining district round Charleroi. The miners are, it is said, overworked, being often engaged from 4 a.m. to 9 or 10 p.m. ; they have the sympathy of the labourers, and have......
A Telegram Was Received In Town On Thursday From Lisbon
announcing, on the authority of a despatch from Rio, dated March 9, that the Brazilians and their allies have passed Humaita and taken Assumption, the Paraguayan capital.......
Last Saturday The Liberals Presented Their Testimonial To...
the late Liberal whip, who has probably come out of that -difficult office with hands more completely free from stain than any predecessor, and yet who has been regarded......
Consols, Both For Money And Account, Have Been 93, 93*,
being yesterday's closing quotations. Reduced and New Three per Cents. have marked 91, ; Exchequer Bills, 7 to 12 prem. ; India Bonds, 28s. to 33s. prem. ; and India Five per......
A Telegram Has Been Received By The London Correspondent Of
the New York Herald, saying that Sir Robert Napier has reached Ashangi, that an unfriendly chief is in front of him, and that the country has been desolated. Sir S. Northeote......
The House Of Lords Has Accepted The Amendment To The
Mutiny Act abolishing corporal punishment, and the Duke of Cambridge, in a sensible but timid speech, pointed out the position in which the Army was now placed. Flogging was......
An Imperial Manifesto, In The Shape Of A Letter To
M. Rouher, is shortly expected in Paris.......
Yesterday And On Friday Week The Leading Foreign Bonds Left
off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, March 27. Friday, April 8. 15f Spanish New ... . 35f 351 Turkish 6 per Cents., 1856 504x. d ... 60 United States 5.20's ..• ••• ••• •••......
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