5 JUNE 1886, page 3

On Wednesday Afternoon, A Likeness Of The Late Frederick...

Maurice was unveiled at Queen's College, Harley Street, by Mr. Llewelyn Davies, the Principal of the College. The likeness has just been painted by Mr. Lowes Dickinson, and is......

So Many Falsehoods Are In Circulation As To Mr. Bright's

actual opinions on the Home•rule Bill, and on the duty of Radicals as to the second reading, that it is worth while to quote the text of his letter to a constituent, published......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 104 to 100ixd.......

Mr. J. G. Blaine, The Unscrupulous Politician Who...

Presidency in 1884 with Mr. Cleveland, intends to offer himself again in 1888, and has already begun making speeches, and, with a view to the Irish vote, has pronounced-......

The Official Inquiry Into The Complaint That Only Foreign...

are now employed in the British merchant service, shows that the grievance has been grossly exaggerated. The per- centage of foreigners employed tends to increase, ship-masters......

Belgium Has Been Agitated By A Great Social Scandal. M.

Vandersmissen, leader of the " Independent " Party, which stands between the Clericals and the Liberals, a man of thirty- five, and of high social position, married a woman of......

We Omitted To Mention Last Week That The Committee Of

Convocation appointed to consider the possibility of so modi- fying the University of London as to bring it into closer com- munication with the teaching bodies that prepare......

The Americans Begin To Feel That-their Store Of Public Lands

is not inexhaustible. They resent, therefore, the large purchases recently made by foreigners, who buy and hold huge blocks, which are thenceforward closed to settlers. The......

Why Does Not The Prince Of Wales, Who Takes Such

interest in the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, ask Lord Dufferin to send home the Gates of Somnath, the " mighty gates of sandal wood, the carven gates divine P" Apart from......