... J1 I GOSCHENS AND THE GENERAL ELECTION. To tin, Lrone of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. lo am more amused than instructed by reading the voluminous corrspodence in your, and other, columns about Mr. Goschen's conver7 sle scheme. ' Its success will help the Tories at the General Election, says see; the low prices of Consols show it is not a success, cries sother; how can the Liberals attack it? ...

... THeye PROS.PECT.S IN POR.TUGAL INTERVIEW WITH AN ENlLISH MERCHANT IT is manifest that a crisis has been reached in 'the affairs of Portugal financially and politically. The new Finance Minister, Senhor ?? Martens, is well spoken of, but he cannot work a miracle and make a total revenue of 8y millions sterling meet an expenditure of eleven to twelve millions, of which nearly five millions are ...

... IF PREVENTABLE, WHY NOT PREVENTED ? jo th EDIOR o tF ALL MALL &AZETTL.- sa1 , EDTOeO haeln bencoddwith a vain humility about our ?? inlfluenza. Scientific reserve is go nmdrtobt ;va ?? and lf-aigmiethods of repreasion are neglected and a no allowed to run riot because wye are stilllcigi Pt ?? Of isticroscopic scrutiny, and do not know every the f thet habitsil o th mirobe, it becomes a pride ...

... I . WOMEN POISONED AND PAR A.LYZEPD. A special commissioner of the Daily Chronicle has been inquiring into, the circumstances under which womien are employed in white lead w~orks, and describing the dangers to which they are exposed. H-e selected New- ?? as the scene of his fir-st inquiry, taking the case of a young woman, aged seventeen, who had succnmbed to lead poisoning after working five ...

... IZIR/SH LANDLORDS ON THE EVICTED TENANTS COMMISSION. BY THrE EARL OF DoNOUCUGMORE. As regards the composition of the Commission itself, there, is no word of reproach to utter as to the personal integrity of its members. Let it be admitted that they are personages of the highest character and consideration nevertheless, the previous record of every one of them is such as to raise the greatest ...

... ,anti Joan ?? Office# 2, NORTHYMBER1LAND-STREFT, STRAND, W. C. Mr. Rennell Rodd, who has been appointed to act as her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar during Sir G. Portal's absence on his mission to Uganda, plays the double part of author and diplomatist, and has won good success as both. Mr. Rodd was very popular at Oxford, and recited his Newdegate at Commemoration in 1880. ...

... I SOME REMARKABLE INCIDENTS. We regret to announce the death in Berlin last night of Dr. Werner Siemens, the well-known electrical engineer. Some six of the existing Atlantic cables, as well as many other submarine systems, were laid by Messrs. Siemens Brothers (Limited), to the formation of which company Dr. Siemens greatly contributed. Dr. Siemens was the inventor of the pneumatic-tube ...

... E U ' , The number of what are called holiday charges ' at the London police- courts yesterday was not excessive, and those persons who had succumbed to the festivities of Boxing Day-were let off easily. MR. PLOWDENS JOMEs. Mr. Plowden, the magistrate at West London police-court, took a very indulgent view of the backslidings of the twenty-one prisoners who. were brought before him. The ...

... RACING ON THE FLAT: A REVIEW OF THO, SEASON. THE racing season, which commenced with the dual success of Sir John B. Maple's colours in the Brocklesby Stakes and the Lincolnshire Handicap eight months ago, and which comes to art end at Manchester to-day, has been full of interest from first to last; and if the quality of the horses which have been competing it the chief events of the season ...

... 1THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CONFElENCE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) I . ~~~BRUSSELS, November 251. THE second sitting of the International Monetary Conference was held this afternoon at the Palais des Academiies, under the presidency of M. Monte- fibre Levi. The questions at issue are not easy to oe solved, and the task, of the delegates to the Conference is certainly very bard The debates have ...

... ??-j --l 7 Ill? rlff ' .LT 2 H EDITION. GREAT WAREHIOUSE FIRE AT LONDON DOCKS NARROW ESCAPE OF FIREMEN. SLIDING DOWN A HOSE LADDER. A great conflagration raged during last night in No. 10 warehouse at London Docks, taxing the whole resources of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade for over six hours, and involving serious loss of property. The warehouse is one of the largest in the docks. It is ...

... SILVER AND GOLD AS INDEPENDENT STANDARDS. THE monometallist we know, and the bimetallist is not a stranger even in the City, but the man who would have us set up both gold and silver standards side by side, and yet independent of each other, is somewhat of a novelty. Lieutenant-Colonel F. S. Terry called at the Pall Mall Gazelle offices in order to expound his theories on inde. pendent gold ...