6 JANUARY 1883, page 11

Complaints Of The Unauthorised Publication Of Bishop...

flimsy and rather unscrupulous gossip multiply daily. In our own columns, Mrs. Oliphant gives reasons for not believing in the accuracy of a report of a supposed conversation......

The Rumours From Zululand Are Hardly Intelligible. It Is...

more especially in the Daily News, that though Cetewayo is about to be restored, he will receive only a third of his kingdom, that he is to obey in all things a British......

The Standard Has Renewed Its Statements About...

Vatican, and even quoted despatches alleged to have passed between Cardinal Maccabe and Cardinal Jacobini. Cardinal Maccabe, however, denies their authenticity, while the......

Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice Has Been Appointed Under-secre-...

Affairs, in the place of Sir Charles Dilke; while Lord Enfield, who, since Lord Kimberley, the new Indian Secretary, is in the House of Lords, cannot any longer hold the -office......

The Lord Chancellor Has Been Raised From A Baron To

an Earl, and is now to be styled Earl of Selborne,—a perfectly ideal title, if the United Kingdom can furnish an ideal title. at all.......

Sir W. Harcourt Is Blamed For Saying That Cremation Ought

not to be sanctioned, except under the authority of an Act of Parliament. But it is a matter of some moment, in a time when poisoning is so frequent, thatr the means of......

We See With Pleasure That The Education Department Have...

the managers of a school at Worleston, in Cheshire, for making a short Church service part of the religious in- struction given to the children of an elementary school. The......

Do All The Dukes Get The Garter, As A Matter

of course P We -observe that the vacant Garter has been conferred on the Duke of Grafton, of whom we only know that he saw service in the -Crimea, and is Equerry to the Queen.......

Lord Elcho, After A Very Long Experience As A Commoner—

he has sat for forty years in the House of Commons—has sue- -ceeded to the Peerage, through the death of his father, the Earl of Wemyss and March, in his eighty-seventh year.......

Mr. Clarke, M.p., Speaking At Plymouth On Wednesday Even-...

made the regular conventional Conservative speech of the present time, assailing the Government for everything they had done, except the Bill for permitting the issue of Reply......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 1011 to 1011 ex, div.......