25 AUGUST 1883, page 3

Murders Of The Deliberate Kind Appear To Breed Each Other.

Only last week we remarked on the singularly deliberate murder of his five children by the blacksmith Gouldstone at Waltham- stow. On Sunday night, at Thornton Heath, Croydon,......

The House Of Lords Hardly Ever Acted Worse On A

compara- tively trivial occasion than in rejecting the Irish Registration Bill, for no reason at all, except that the Irish Home-rule party liked it. The Bill does nothing......

King Charles Of Roumania Has Been Staying At Potsdam, And

acting as sponsor to the second son of Prince and Princess William of Prussia, the great-grandson of the Emperor of Germany. The German Court has been making a great fuss about......

The Pension Granted By The Government To Mr. Matthew Arnold

for his services to English Literature will do them the highest credit in the eyes of all true lovers of literature. It is, however, only equal in amount to the pension awarded......

But They Did Not Do So Without Raising Bitter Complaint

of the Government for its treatment of the Upper House, in which, of course, Lord Fortescue's wail was the shrillest of all. And -doubtless it is very unfortunate that such a......

Two Very Well-earned Political Distinctions Have Been...

by the Government. Sir '1 homas Acland, M.P. for North Devon, has been made a Privy Councillor; and Mr. Ferrer, the Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, has received a......

The Discussion Of The Sentence Of The Court-martial On Com-

mander Heron for failing in his duty in looking after the stores in the hulk which he commanded at Aberdeen—the -‘ Clyde '—came off on Monday, and the feeling of the House......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent. Consols Were On Friday 99i

to 100.......

The House Of Commons Agreed To That Amendment Of The

Lords on the Agricultural Holdings Bill which extends the provision against -compensating the tenant for improvements -causing an increased return,—so far as the increase is......

The Lords Also Threw Out On Tuesday The Local Government

4(Se,otland) Bill with more excuse, as Lord Balfour of Burleigh moved its rejection, and Scotch opinion seems to be by no means fully united in its favour'. Lord Salisbury,......

Baron Malortie, Writing To Monday's Ti Ales, Gives Very...

support to the view of Dr. Mouat, which we reported last week, and to our own conjecture published six weeks ago, that the epidemic in Egypt is not Asiatic cholera. He quotes a......