10 SEPTEMBER 1887, page 9

The Calamity At Exeter.

T HE burning of the theatre at Exeter on Monday night is not the greatest of recent catastrophes by fire; but it was, in one respect at least, the most ghastly. The number of......

Convict Colonisation.

A N idea seems to have prevailed, and still to prevail, among some Frenchmen that British Colonies, at least in the Antipodes, owe their greatness to the fact that they were......