5 JANUARY 1884, page 3

A Frightful Account Is Published Of A Small District Near

St. George's Church, Southwark, inspected by Sir Charles Dilke. This district, of which the centre is called Vine Yard, has always' been squalid, but recently the clearances in......

Lord Coleridge Has Published A Memorial On The Subject Of

the tribunals to which ritual and doctrinal questions should be submitted, with the general drift of which we heartily agree, though we do not think that it touches either the......

At A Series Of Meetings Held Last Session In The

Conference- room of the House of Commons, it was decided to form a Com. mittee for keeping the English public well informed, by inde- pendent authorities, on Irish affairs, so......

On Tuesday, Dr. Barry Was Consecrated, At Westminster...

of Sydney and Metropolitan of Australia. Dr. - Barry is the second son of the architect of the Houses of Parlia- ment, was educated at King's College, London, and at Trinity......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 1011 to 1011 x.d.......

A Return Just Issued To Parliament Contains Some...

will be most useful to those who are studying the ques- tion of Redistribution. In England and Wales, the population of the counties now exceeds that of the boroughs, though, of......

The Railway Shareholders, Led By Lord Brabourne, Whom Mr....

in a moment of weakness, made a Peer, are puisuing a somewhat risky course. They are trying to combine all shareholders into a single powerful interest or association, in-......

Mr. Gladstone's Birthday Must Be A Day Of Tribulation. The

• practice of pelting him with telegrams and letters of congratu- '' lation seems to us a very inhumane one, and not really expressive the hearty affection and reverence which......

In Fixing The Judicial Rent Of Lord Lansdowne's Queen's-...

estates last week, the Sub-Commissioner, Mr. Kane, reduced every rent but one, one or two about 25 per cent, some 20 per cent., sonic of them 16 per cent., some as little as 8......