It Is Becoming Quite Evident That Nine Hours Is Soon
to be the recognized length of an English day's labour. The engineer firms have given way everywhere ; even in so out-of-the-world a place as Ipswich ; and all the trades are......
Dr. W. B. Hodgson, The Newly-elected Professor Of...
Commercial Economy and Mercantile Law in the University of Edinburgh, delivered yesterday week an able and lively inaugural lecture to his course, in which he tried to remove......
Dr. Wilson, Of Ayr, One Of The Bishops Of The
Scottish Episcopal Church, has been exerting the powers of his office in a very extra- ordinary way,—a way, as unaccountable as it is unusual. The authorities of Glasgow......
The Report Of The Cambridge Examiners On The Examination For
women above 18 years of age has been published this week, and the Pall Mall, commenting on that report, generalizes it thus,— that the girls do best in those subjects "which......
The Metropolitan Board Of Works Wants To Borrow Two Millions
to effect some improvements in the way of widening thorough- fares and opening one new one from the West End to Shorediteb. The policy of borrowing money for these improvements......
"greyfriars Bobby," The Edinburgh Dog, Who Insisted On...
for (we think) ten years on his master's grave, is to have a red granite monument erected to him, at the expense of Lady Burdett Coutts. It is to be a drinking fountain for......
A Telegram Received On Monday Announces A Singularly...
It appears that the whales have discovered that the pur- suit of the whalers is too hot, and they have retreated into the Arctic ocean, and even, it has been recently reported,......
The Tichborne Case Was Resumed On Tuesday At The Mid-
Alesex Sessions House, and all the old interest in it and the old irritabilities in connection with it at once revived. The claimant's funds appear to be giving way, as Mr.......
We Have A Sort Of Impulse To Protest Against The
way in which the murderer of the late Justice Norman was executed in Calcutta. He was hanged, and his body then burned by low-cage men, the object of the second operation being......
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