13 DECEMBER 1884, page 3

At A Remarkable Meeting Held Last Saturday In Manchester, To

present a testimonial to Mr. Thomas Hughes, Q.C., for his valuable services as Chairman of the Co-operative Union, the Bishop of Manchester in the chair,it was publicly......

The Best Authenticated Of All The Stories Of Sagacity In

dogs has been made public this week. Mr. Arthur E. Reade, Secre- tary to the Charing-Cross Hospital, writes to the Times of Wednesday to say that at half-past ten on Sunday......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 991 to 99f Id,......

The Church Union Has Suddenly Taken To Discussing Choral And

congregational music ; and on Thursday Mr. Joscelyn Courtenay read a paper before that High-Church Society, the drift of which was that if you want to aim at exert- ing the -......

The Times Of Tuesday Notices The Death, On November 25th,

at Clifton, of the accomplished translator of " Tauler's Sermons" and the " Theologia Germanica," Miss Susanna Winkworth, the trusted friend of Charles Kingsley, and one of the......

Mr. Courtney Made A Singular Mistake Last Week In Adducing

Geneva as an example of the evil effects of uninominal voting, and, above all, in pointing his moral with the assertion that one of the consequences of the system had been the......

Many Readers Have Been Inclined To Doubt The Frightful...

recently published by Mr. S. St. John of the revival of cannibalism in Hayti, but a narrative just received from the West Coast of Africa shows that the practice exists in our......

The Berlin Conference Is Advancing To The Conclusion Of Its

labours. It has defined the Congo Basin so as to include about 2,000,000 square miles of territory—nearly two Brazils—and has divided the Niger Basin into two more moderate......