4 JANUARY 1890, page 19

Payment By Results.

I S payment by results doomed ? Mr. Mundella is re- ported to have declared that it is, and in many quarters there is an evident determination to make a vigorous on- slaught......

Tue Decrease Of Certain Fears.

T HERE is one subject at least upon which the Western world has certainly not gone pessimist, and that is upon the probability of universal or widespread calamity. The epidemics......