12 MAY 1877, page 3

The Academy Dinner This Day Week Was Eaten Without Either

Sir Francis Grant or Lord Beaconsfield, who were both ill. But Sir Gilbert Scott discharged very well the official functions of Sir Francis, and Sir Stafford Northcote the......

We Have Referred In Another Column To M. Gambetta's Very

.eloquent, bat very dangerous speech in favour of a repressive policy against clericalism not unlike that so fortunately defeated in Italy. There should be the less need for......

Mr. Carlyle Wrote To The Times Last Saturday To Sound

an alarm as to the rumour that " our miraculous Premier" was contemplating a feat in the East,—apparently sending the Fleet to Constantinople,—which would force " not Russia......

On Wednesday, Lord Granville, In His Usual Speech After The

presentation of degrees, referred with fine taste and character- istic delicacy to the great loss of the University in the death of one of its Foraminers in Political Economy,......

Mr. Gladstone And The Archbishop Of Canterbury Both Spoke,

and were rather curiously in conflict with each other. Mr. Glad- stone, in answering for "Literature," remarked that Art teaches that no disproportionate development of the......

Consols Were On Friday 94.

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We Are Requested To Mention That The Salary Of Nein

Pundit, the great Hindoo explorer,'was not rs. 7 (14s.) a month, as stated by us, but rs. 70 (£7). In addition to his pension of £50, the Pundit received from the Indian......

The Debate At The Meeting Of The Convocation Of The

University of London last Tuesday to discuss the admission of women to medical degrees, was a very noisy one, the medical graduates mustering very strong, and according a fair......

An Oxford Petition, Signed By More Than One Hundred And

thirty of the weightiest names in the University of Oxford, has been sent to the House of Commons praying for an amendment in the Universities Bill, directing the Commis-......

Mr. Roebuck Has Delivered A Pro-turkish Diatribe This...

only in the House of Commons, but to the members of a Provident Fund whom he met at Sheffield, and whom he exhorted to imitate the sobriety of the Turks. "We are surrounded," he......