11 MAY 1895, page 3

A Great Public Meeting Was Held In St. James's Hall

on Tues- day to protest against the further tolerance of the atrocities in Armenia. The meeting was attended by the representatives of almost all the Churches, English and......

The Deaths Of Lord Pembroke And Lord Selborne Raise Very

interesting and curious points in connection with the question uf what vacates a seat in the House of Commons, for the .heirs of both peerages, Mr. Sidney Herbert and Lord......

Mr. Balfour Made A Speech On Wednesday At The Annual

dinner of the Newspaper Society, in which he actually con- trived to say something on the exhausted subject of the Press, which was at once new and true. He said that in this......

We Cannot Imagine A More Pathetic Situation Than That Of

the popular leader who finds that he must either abandon sense and reason or be abandoned by the people ; who is called upon, that is, to sacrifice the true interests of the......

Mr. Giffen On Friday, May 3rd, Gave Some Interesting...

before the Royal Commission on the financial re- lations between Great Britain and Ireland. He stated it to be his opinion that the proposal to construct a submarine tunnel......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

New Consols (2 3 1) were on Friday, 106i.......

The Economist O May 4th, In Discussing The Budget, Points

out a fact in the financial position which has been generally overlooked, but which is of the most satisfactory kind. We could at this moment raise a war loan of fully......

The Academy Banquet Was Given, As Usual, On Saturday, The

place of Sir Frederic Leighton being taken by Sir John Millais. Perhaps for that reason the speeches were not so brilliant as usual. The Duke of Cambridge, now a very old man,......