4 JANUARY 1890, page 11

Sir Michael Hicks-beach Made A Very Sensible Speech At...

on Thursday, when he dealt with Mr. Parnell's representations as to Home-rule, and remarked that if Mr. Parnell was really as anxious about giving an industrial stimulus to......

The Attorney-general, Speaking At Sandown On Thursday,...

danger that Governments, in their anxiety to get votes at the polling-booths, would forget that, after all, the preparation of attractive legislative changes is not the main......

The List Of Honours Usually Published At The Beginning Of

the year is unusually short, and contains no remarkable names except that of Sir J. Lubbock, who is made a Privy Coun- cillor, of Mr. Savory, the President of the College of......

The Concrete Portions Of Mr. Frederic Harrison's Address...

pretentious. Positivism alone understood how to solve the Socialist problems, he said. Their solution was the only true one, " a Socialism which was founded in the Family," a......

On Other Subjects Sir Michael Hicks-beach Taunted The...

being now eager to pull to pieces the electoral law which they had themselves accepted in 1885 with a flourish of trumpets, and to replace it by a totally different system,......

Mr. Frederic Harrison Almost Surpassed Himself On " The Day

of Humanity,"—New Year's Day,—in the solemnity of the airs with which he interpreted " the Great Power " in whose presence, he said, that he and his congregation stood. " It was......

The Bank Rate Was Raised On Monday To 6 Per

cent., the stock of gold being unusually low, and the demand both for the provinces and abroad unusually large. By Friday the market rate had become lighter, but there is still......

Bank Rate, 6 Per Cent.

New Consols (24) were on Friday 971 to 974.......

The Funeral Of Browning At Westminster Abbey Took Place On

the last day of 1889, which was also one of the darkest days of a dark year. He was buried next to the poet Cowley, as great a contrast to him in style as could well be chosen,—......