30 JANUARY 1892, page 19

Sir John Lubbock, We Deeply Regret To See, Has Finally

resolved to retire from the London County Council. He has, he says, too much to do. Both the Conservatives and the Progressives, it is also stated, find the greatest difficulty......

Under The Heading " Our Legal System," The Times Of

Monday published a remarkably able letter, signed "S. S. C." The writer suggests that the pleadings in an action, and the delays allowed to a prosecutor, should be still further......

On Saturday, Judgment Was Given In The Eastbourne Riot Case

by the Court of Crown Cases Reserved. The Court, consisting of Mr. Justice Hawkins, who originally tried the case, and four other Judges, declared that the verdict of the jury......

The Speaker, In Addressing A Meeting Of The Church Of

England Society for Waifs and Strays at Leamington on Saturday, spoke of the appalling number of paupers in the country—namely, 728,043—and mentioned as specially dis- tressing......

No One Seems To Have Noticed Or Have Cared About

the paper on " Hafiz " which appears in the Quarterly Review for January. We have not an idea who wrote it, unless, perhaps, Sir Alfred Lyall has excelled himself ; but the......

The New Khedive Of Egypt, Abbas Ii., Has Marked His

accession by lowering the price of salt by 40 per cent., and by abolishing altogether the professional licence duty. Sir Evelyn Baring knows his business ; but if it is true......

Spain Is Not The Country In Europe Where One Would

expect the social explosion to come first; but more impossible phenomena have been witnessed. The peasantry of the Peninsula have neither acquired the land as the French have......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

New Console (2k) were on Friday 951.......