7 JANUARY 1888, page 14

The Quarrel In Liverpool Between The Corporation And Its...

is worth watching, for this reason. The tendency of opinion nowadays is dead against landlords, who, if they claim their full legal rights, are denounced by the Press all over......

Mr. Frederic Harrison On New Year's Day Seems To Have

done what a New Year's address could do, to confirm the adhesion of the Positivists to the cause of Home-rule. He remarked that the policy of the Government seemed to be......

The Forged Letters Of Which So Much Has Been Said

were pub- lished in the Imperial Gazette of Germany on Saturday last. They consist of three letters from Prince Ferdinand to the Countess of Flanders, wife of the next heir to......

The Standing Quarrel Between The Papacy And The Govern- Ment

of Italy has become accentuated by two incidents. The Duke of Torlonia, Syndic of Rome, requested permission of the Pope to pay his homage on the occasion of the Jubilee, and......

No Less Than Eighty-two Seats In The French Senate Were

balloted for on Thursday, and it was expected that the Republican majority would be greatly increased. The number of municipal delegates has been enlarged since 1879, when the......

Nothing Definite Has Transpired As To The Precise...

the German Crown Prince. The telegrams are fairly favourable ; and the British Medical Journal reports, on good authority, that ground now exists for hoping that the Prince's......

Instead Of This, M. Tisza, The Hungarian Premier,...

the Deputies who congratulated him on New Year's Day, refused to say anything of a decidedly hopeful kind. The finances would be put right, he said, if the general situation of......

Everything Is Great In China, Especially Misfortunes. It...

many years since a famine struck two of her Northern pro- vinces, the two Shang, and killed eleven millions of people through hunger and its consequent fevers; and now two......