11 MAY 1872, page 3

The Duke Of Wellington's Prize For The Best Essay On

Tactics has fallen to Lieutenant F. Maurice (son of the late Professor Maurice), Royal Artillery. His work is described by Colonel Hamley—a first-class authority—as an essay......

London Has Been Interested This Week In The Trial Of

a Glouces- tershire solicitor named Edmunds for killing his wife by a blow with a brush five years ago. Ann Brad.!, a servant-girl, swore that she heard a quarrel between Mr.......

Mr. Fawcett Called Attention Yesterday Week To The...

the Law Officers of the Crown and the House of Cum. mons. He pointed out the need of having law officers who could give an undivided service to the Government, especially in......

The New York Times Describes What, If It Really Exists,

implies something like a real difference of species between the American women and our own. It says that there are places for lending out gala clothes, and that an American lady......

The Bishops, Having First Abdicated Their Proper Lead In...

to the question of the modification or discontinuance of the use of the Athanasian Creed in the ordinary services of the Church, on being informed of the opinion of the Lower......

In 1842, It Was Believed That A Military Harbour At

Alderney was essential to the perfect defence of the Channel. Accordingly a million-and-a-half was spent in beginning one, especially in making a vast stone breakwater. A year......

English Law Is Usually Held To Be Deficient In Elasticity,

but it sometimes meets peculiar cases in a very remarkable way. George Hurry. for instance, was technically guilty of manslaughter. He refused to call in a doctor to his child......

The Power Vested In Four Cambridge Professors, To Appoint To

the Cambridge chair of Casuistry, Moral Theology, and Moral Philo- sophy, vacated by the death of Mr. Maurice, has been exercised by the election of the Rev. Thomas Rawson......

Consols Were On Friday 92f To 921

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