11 APRIL 1874, page 3

The Annual Co-operative Congress Commenced This Year At...

Monday, with a remarkable speech from the chair- man, Mr. T. Brassey. After stating that the number of co-opera- tive societies in England and Wales was 746, with 300,587......

Mr. Goldwin Smith, In A Speech Made "in Connection With,"

but not to, this Congress, took occasion to make a very curious 'remark. He lamented the inequality of fortunes in England more than the inequalities of other kinds. A man who......

The Bishop Of Orleans Has Published An Admirable Pastoral On

the morbid condition of the French mind in relation to alleged miracles and prophecies, on which we have commented elsewhere. But we may call attention here to the evidence......

The Times Gives An Account Of The Strange Practice Of

" flogging Judas Iscariot " which the Portuguese sailors went through yesterday week even in the London Docks. This consists in be- labouring a wooden image of Judas Iscariot,......

It Is Stated, We See, That One Change Has Already

occurred in the Ministry, Sir J. Karslake having resigned from increasing ill-health. We regret to hear that he is suffering from an affection of the eyes. Sir R. Baggallay......

The Church Conservatives Of The Present Day Have Learnt...

at least by the history of recent years. They see the folly as well as the injustice of a scornful or stand-off attitude -towards Dissent. The great Richmond-Cemetery question......

We Hope Mr. Cross Is Not Bent On Earning The

unenviable -reputation of intervening without adequate reason in the usual -course of the law. We referred last week to the remission of half the sentence on a young man......

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The Case Of "dolan V. The London And North-western Railway

Company" should be a warning to jurymen not to accept so im- plicitly as they often do the statements of persons who apply for compensation from railway companies for injuries......

Console Were On Friday 92f -92k.

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