8 APRIL 1876, page 2

The British Government, As We Supposed Last Week, Has...

retired from any effort to improve Egyptian finance. On Thqrs- day night the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in answer to Mr. Gourley, read a statement declaring that "it did not......

There Was, However, A Short And Dull Debate On Thursday

upon the Income-tax, Mr. Hubbard moving that both imperial and local taxation should be based upon real property, and that taxa- tion levied upon industrial earnings should be......

Prince Bismarck Appears To Have Made, In The Prussian Diet

this week, a sort of apology to the Constitutional Prussian party of 1863-5, for the apparent hostility with which he treated their resistance to the military autocracy claimed......

Sir Stafford Northcote Brought On The Budget On Monday, Be-

fore a very inattentive House. He had for the past year a sur- plus of £710,000, but for the coming year he expected a deficit of £774,000, which he should increase by £26,000,......

There Is A Contest Of Some Interest Going On In

l3arbadoes be- tween the planters and the Governor. Lord Carnarvon, in a de- spatch of January 28, 1876, directed Mr. Hennessy to bring forward Lord Kimberley's plan of......

The Russian Official Journals Now Affirm That The Story Of

the Czar's abdication was pure invention. It is pretty evident that', it was not, but the denial may be taken as meaning that the pro- ject has been laid aside. The Czar, it is......

President Grant Is Believed To Be Very Ill. He Has

had some kind of a stroke, produced by vexation at the official frauds, or at the revelation of them, being nearly fatal to his third term. The Senate has formed itself into a......

Mr. Cave's Report On Egyptian Finance Was Published On...

and is analysed elsewhere, and the market, with its unerring instinct for facts, responded by an immediate fall. This has greatly annoyed financiers in France, who hold great......