... In the House of Lords last night Earl Granville, replying a question from Lord Brabourne, made reassuring statement with respect the engagement German experts connection with Turkish finance. The Foreign .Secretary stated that the application had been made some months ago, and was in accordance witli a practice that had existed for •fifty years. assured the House that there was not the ...

... their proposal to place it in Henry Vll.'s Chapel, the Queen has been most graciously pleased to offer site in St. George's, Windsor, where the monument will now be erected. The News from the Cape.—We understand that Mr. W. H. James will this afternoon ask the Under-Secretary for the Colonies for information concerning the alarming news from Basutoland, and also what instructions have been ...

... the House of Commons yesterday the greater portion tlio hour was occupied }, discussion private Bill promoted the British (his Licjlit Company. It was opposed Mr. AVoodall in the interests of the inhabitants llanlev. and a division the third reading was carried votes against 2i). Whilst the questions were progress Mr. Gladstone crossed over to the front Opposition tench where Sir Stafford was ...

... This Evening, B,THE DANITES.Sandy, Mr. McKeo Rankin; Nsincv, Mrs. McKee Rankin Messrs. \V. E. Sheridan, G. M. E. Holland, J. Peakes, H. Lee, C. H Morton. Harry Williams, and Blythe: J. Walcuoii. E. Randolph, and Eiuma Marble. —At 7.30, TAMING A TIGER. ...

... of London. Alderman Sidney, who was elected in that year and has just retired, became Lord Mayor in his turn in 1853. At the poll yesterday 358 electors voted, and Mr. Reginald Hanson was elected alderman of the ward in Mr. Sidney's place by majority of 168 votes. In this comparatively obscure way, and by this small group of citizens, an Alderman of London was appointed who will be at once ...

... in the main satisfactory. It is little than two months since the present Parliament met for the despatch of business. The lirst two months of an ordinary Session see very little work accomplished. The irregular and capricious advent of Easter generally marks no more solid result of legislative labour than an increased power of discrimination between measures with which Ministers may possibly ...

... This Evening, 7.15, IiLTTH'S ROMANCE. Miss Hilda Hilton, Messrs. Denbigh Newton and H. .Parry,—At 8, new Opera Comique, MAJDAME FAVART, by Offenbach. Meajirs. Ashley, Uracy, Lew ens, H. Cox, De Lunge, and M. Marina Mesdames F. St. John, Laura Clement, Carew, Dewhurst, Couteur, &c. ...

... which can point to four generations possesses the necessary elements of tradition and association; and while the Prince Imperial lived it was felt that the Republic had a dangerous competitor. His death dashed the hopes of the Bonapartists, nor have they been able to concentrate their hopes and their allegiance on any other descendant of Napoleon, Here, then, it is openly qfcknowledged a ...

... Mr. W. G. S. Smith, secretary the Forest i' und Committee, the 27th inst., I .venture to think that it will enable your readers and the public generally to better judge of the merits of the Bill iu question if its exact terms are placed before them, instead of the abstract given, which I suggest is misleading. The Bill is stated be one to continue for a limited period the powers of the ...

... A meeting the shareholders of the Hull and County Ba.vk, which was opened in October, 1878, Hull, but was almost immediately closed before any banking business was transacted, the action some of the shareholders, was held at the Law Institution, Chancery-lane, yesterday, to receive the report of the liquidators. Mr. George Davies, one of the liquidators, occupied the chair. —Mr. Harrison, ...

... • In the House of Lords yesterday the Census Bill was read second time. A Census Bill for Ireland was introduced, and read a first time, their lordships adjourning twenty minutes to Bix. There were twenty-eight questions on the paper the House of Commons, but owing to the now general adoption of tailing questions as read the ■whole were disposed of by five o'clock, thus saving at least half-an ...

... PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATREl Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edgar Bruce. Evening, 7.50, A HAPPY PAIR. Mrs. Bernard Beere and Mr. Eric Bayiey.—At 8.40, FORGET-ME-NOT. Misses Genevieve Ward, Kate Pattison, Annie Lay ton. Mrs. Leigh Murray; Fioektou, Tree, Robertson, and John THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Lessees and Managers, Mr. and Mn». Banc roft. This Evening, at 8.30, T. W. Robertson's Comedy, ...