On Wednesday Lord Rosebery Made A Speech To The...
Chamber of Commerce which, though sensible enough, contained nothing very striking or original, and was almost without those touches of humour which generally delight his......
A Great Find Of Petroleum Is Reported From Beaumont In
Texas. Little more than a week ago a petroleum spring was accidentally tapped, and has been spouting out ever since in a steady stream two hundred feet high and six inches in......
A Hundred Years Ago It Was The Commonest Thing In
the world for excellent men in this country, and men who thought themselves thoroughly liberal and tolerant, to say that Roman Catholics ought, of course, to be allowed full......
A Correspondent In A Letter Which We Publish This Week
complains of our remarks in regard to the Duke of Norfolk's address, and of our criticism of the Pope's protest against Protestant teaching being permitted "in the inviolate......
The Bishop Of London, Who Died On Monday After A
long and painful illness, might fairly be called a man of great promise as well as achievement, for he was only fifty-seven. Though he spent ten years on leaving Oxford as......
Mr. H. W. Wilson In Thursday's Daily Mail Gives A
most interesting summary of the rigorous methods adopted by Generals Sheridan and Sherman in the last years of the Civil War. The avowed object of the Northern Generals was to......
Sir Alfred Milner Has Defined His Attitude Towards His...
in a very sensible letter addressed to a Huddersfield Magistrate. He points out that if he were to attempt to deny all the lies or to correct all the misrepresentations of which......
Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent.
New Consols (21) were on Friday 97.......