7 JANUARY 1888, page 15

The Oxford Druids Are Not So Antiquated As To Prefer

Fair- trade to Free-trade. At the anniversary dinner on Monday night, both the Earl of Jersey and Mr. A. W. Hall, M.P., pro- tested against the resolution of the delegates at......

Mr. Frederic Harrison On New Year's Day Seems To Have

done what a New Year's address could do, to confirm the adhesion of the Positivists to the cause of Home-rule. He remarked that the policy of the Government seemed to be......

The Duke Of Rutland Shows Some Shrewdness When Be Writes

to yesterday's Times that the Protectionists are very far indeed from wishing to force Protection on the people of Great Britain against the popular will, since what they hope......

The Irish Astronomer-royal, In A Lecture Delivered On...

the Royal Institution, stated that there are known to be three times as many stars as the population of Great Britain. Now, as, of course, it is most probable that there are a......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 102i to 102fxd.......

In The Killarney Court-house On Monday, Judge Curran Was...

with a pair of white gloves to commemorate the absence of crime in the causes with which he had to deal. This is quite a startling thing in Kerry, and is doubtless, as the Irish......

The Church Association Is Down Upon The Bishop Of London

for not interfering to prevent what it calls the violation "of the well-ascertained law of the Church," in the case of a Ritualist church. The Bishop of London is wise enough to......

The Conviction On Wednesday Of Alice Clay, Of Cromford, By

a Derbyshire jury, of horrible cruelty against her own daughter so far back as August, 1884, by burning her with a hot poker to which bits of the child's flesh adhered in......

In The Synod Of Gaelic Associations For The Promotion Of

athletic sports, which met at Thurles on Wednesday last, the party of the Parnellites and the priests got the victory over the party of physical force; and Mr. Fitzgerald......