The List Of New Year Honours Is Not Remarkable. Lord
Cromer is made a Viscount, but should more appropriately have been made an Earl, and Sir Philip Carrie, Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, Sir Henry Hawkins, and Mr. Garden are made......
The Very Difficult Question Of The Rating Of Tithe-rent...
was raised by a deputation of clergymen who waited upon the Archbishop of Canterbury on Monday last. They drew his attention to the extreme distress often caused by the pressure......
The Revenue Returns For The Third Quarter Of The Year
are ex- tremely satisfactory. They show that the total receipts into the Treasury in the three months just ended have been 228.632,334, which is an increase of 2864,000 over the......
Considerable Excitement Has Been Caused By An Article In The
Contemporary Review, in which Mr. E. N. Bennett accuses Lord Kitchener's army of gross cruelty after Omdurman. Substantially the charge amounts to this, that the Soudanese and......
The Cobden Club Has Taken A New, But What We
cannot regard as a wise, departure. It has issued a manifesto in favour of the open door." The manifesto urges that though we should recognise the right of foreign Powera to......
If Sir William Harcourt Bad Only Couched His Letter On
the confessional, published in Thursday's Times, in lean violent language, it might have done far more good than we fear it now will. We feel quite as strongly as he can against......
Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent. New Consols (21) Were On
Friday, not.......
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