14 AUGUST 1880, page 3

We See With Pleasure That The Late George Long, Formerly

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, the eminent scholar and jurist, who was a man of the most thorough learning, of the most modest scholarship, and of the most severe......

The Sentence On Pleasance Louisa Ingle, The Guy's...

found guilty of manslaughter for the neglect of Mrs. Morgan in the bath, was three months' imprisonment, without hard labour. We believe she deserved either a severer sentence,......

The Sandwich Election Petition Has Resulted In The...

Mr. Roberts was not legally returned, and that corrupt practices prevailed generally at the election. The election was declared void on account of the lavish hiring of......

Yesterday Week, Lord Claud J. Hamilton Was Elected For...

by a majority of 1,901, the numbers being, for Lord Cland, 21,019 votes, against 19,118 given for Mr. Plimsoll. The majority is actually less, but relatively rather greater than......

Dr. Pavy Has Been Foolish Enough To Write To The

Times of last Saturday that Sir William Gull, in his evidence in the Guy's Hospital case, " has cast what I consider an unwarrantable aspersion upon my professional capacity." '......

Consols Were On Friday 98 To 98i.

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The Burials Bill Passed Its Second Reading On Thursday Night

in the House of Commons by an enormous majority,-258, against 79. We regret to say that Mr. Osborne Morgan, in his able speech on moving the second reading, did not propose any......

The Railway Accidents Are Beginning In Terrible Force. On...

day the " Flying Scotchman," coming south, became a wreck within three miles of Berwick,—from causes not yet explained, but probably due to coming round a sharp curve at too......

The Debate Was Enlivened By A Comic Speech From Mr.

Beres- ford Hope, who contemplated the probability of women per- forming the burial service, and pictured to himself the feeling of a clergyman on seeing "perched on a tombstone......

A Mysterious Shipwreck Is Reported From Aden. On Wed- Nesday

we heard that the steamer Jeddah,' of Singapore, bound for Jeddah, with 953 pilgrims on board, foundered off Cape Gnardafui on the 8th inst. " All on board perished," it was......