14 DECEMBER 1878, page 3

In The Prussian Diet On Wednesday, Dr. Falk, The Author

of the Falk Laws, made a declaration that nothing would induce the Government to give up the restrictive ecclesiastical legislation aimed at the Catholic Church,—stating that......

The Distress, Touching The Point Of Starvation, In Some Of

our great manufacturing towns is becoming widespread, and in Man- chester we are happy to see that strenuous efforts are being made to organise relief. The distress is greatly......

We Are In Danger Of A New Barbarism. The Phrase

"to duplex" an electric cable, seems coming rapidly into use,—in the sense of to make it capable of doing double the work that it did before. But if that be the meaning, why not......

Consols Were On Friday 94+ To 94 Ex Div.

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Maldon Has Returned A Liberal, By A Majority Considerably

greater than that by which, in 1874, it returned a Conservative. At that election, Mr. Sandford, the late Member, was returned by a majority of 113 over the Liberal candidate,......

The Rev. Malcolm Ma.ccoll Published A Letter In The Times,

of November 2nd, in which he stated that the Italian Commissioner withdrew his signature from the Collective Report, signed by certain members of the Rhodope Commission, because......

We Are Willing To Let The Pall Mall Gazette Have

the last word on the Rhodope Commission. Our articles on that subject have now been republished by Messrs. Chatto and Windus, and we leave the public to form their own judgment.......

Nottingham Has Been Holding A Liberal Banquet, At Which Mr.

Bernal Osborne,—once the great Parliamentary jester, whose *place is now filled with far greater originality by Sir Wil- frid Lawson,—was one of the chief speakers ; and oddly......