29 FEBRUARY 1896, page 3

The Moplah Outbreak Reported From Madras Is Evidently One Of

the periodical risings of those fanatics. They are not moved by any grievance, but by a desire to reach heaven through battle with the infidel. They suggest no terms, ask no......

Mr. Rhodes's Powers In Rhodesia Have Been More Com- Pletely

taken away than we had imagined. He has hired a -steamer in Egypt to take him to Beira, the German steamer in which he bad taken his passage having grounded in the Suez......

The Irish Banking Statistics For 1895 Are Perhaps The Most

satisfactory ever recorded. They show that the private &- posits and cash balances in the Irish joint-stock banks stood in December last at 239,008,000, being an increase of......

Opinion In The United States Is Growing Rather Hot About

Cuba. So far as we can asoertain, while there is a party favourable to annexation, the general inclination is not towards that policy. There is even a certain dislike towards......

The Report Of The British South Africa Company Is Sum-

marised in Thursday's Times. The balance sheet, made up to March 31st, 1895, shows that the administration expenses, direct and indirect, including 214,471 Os. 5d, for telegraph......

On Wednesday Mr. Clancy Introduced His Bill For...

evicted tenants under a plan which would involve the use of public money. Mr. Gerald Balfour opposed the Bill in the most masterly speech ever delivered on this tiresome and......

The Figures Brought Forward By Mr. Gerald Balfour Showed...

the Evicted Tenants question was never a large one, and is rapidly settling itself. The reason why so much fuss is made about the evicted tenants is simple enough. The Irish......

Sir Francis Scott, Who Commanded The Expedition To...

who has such expelience of the Coast, is optimist as to the future of the country. Coomassie, he says, can be made healthy, the place beirg situated on a ridge of rocks 600 ft.......

We Are Rejoiced To Find That Bishop Alexander, The Bishop

of Derry and Raphoe, is to be raised to the primacy of the Church of Ireland. It is said that the laity of the Irish Church body, taken alone, would scarcely have put him......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.

New Console (21) were on FriC.ay, 109f.......