25 JANUARY 1890, page 3

Mr. Chaplin's Defence Of His Muzzling Order On Wednesday Was

not a very brilliant affair. In the first place, he had evidently not read the letter from " F.R.S." to the Times of Wednesday week as to the statistics of the question. In the......

The American Correspondent Of The Manchester Examiner...

great profusion of detail, that Mr. Blaine, the Secretary of State, is endeavouring to purchase Cuba from Spain, and with :that view is favouring the Repub- lican Party in......

Mr. Brudenell Carter Read An Interesting Paper On Wednes-...

before the Society of Arts, on "Vision-Testing." He said that the methods pursued on the English and Scotch railways and by the Board of Trade for testing colour-blindness are......

Mr. T. W. Russell Made An Excellent Speech In The

Rotunda Lecture Hall, Liverpool, yesterday week, in answer to Mr. Parnell's remarkable fictions as to the tenants established on the Coolgreany estate in Wexford, Mr. Parnell's......

The Lisbon Correspondent Of The Times Should Explain His...

about the new Calendar adopted in Brazil. He stated positively, on the authority of Brazilian papers, -that the Provisional Government had adopted the Comtist Calendar, and......

The City Public Has Been Greatly Interested For Some Days

in a trial called "The Queen v. Marks and others," which was essentially a case of extortion. Plaintiffs declared that de- fendants had extorted money by threats of denouncing......

Mr. Christopher Rice M Angel Talbot, The " Father "

of the House of Commons, who had sat in the unreformed House of Commons,—indeed, he represented Glamorganshire during the whole fifty-nine years of his Parliamentary life,—died......

Bank Rate, 6 Per Cent.

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 971 to 97f.......