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Dr. Tanner Exceeded Himself On Tuesday. Mr. Matthews, In...

his action in relation to the Crewe parricide, said that he hoped no Minister who had to advise her Majesty as to the exercise of her highest prerogative,—that of mercy,— would......

The Return Of Abdurrahman. To Cabul, After An Absence Of

two years, gave the Times of Monday last an occasion for an interesting review of the present situation in Afghanistan. When the Ameer left his capital in 1888, the insurrection......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent.

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 961 to 96i.......

Sir John Gorst Explained The Financial Position Of India On

Thursday night. It was, on the whole, a prosperity statement, all the figures showing a larger statement of revenue the more nearly they represented the actual facts and not......

L'illustration, The French Graphic, Has Been Publishing...

a certain M. Chaudoin, one of the hostages who was seized by the King of Dahomey, and kept three months in captivity, chained for the greater part of the time to his fellow-......

The Times Of Monday Gives An Interesting Account Of An

" agricultural jubilee," which was lately celebrated on the Suffolk estates of Lord Tollemache, who has just completed a fifty years' possession of his land. A detailed record......

On Tuesday, A Special Jury At Lewes Awarded Damages To

the amount of £10,000 in an action for breach of promise of mar- riage. The plaintiff was a Miss Gladys Knowles, and the defendant the editor and proprietor of the Matrimonial......

Mr. Chaplin Made A Short Speech On Saturday In Knuston

Park, East Northamptonshire, which, if his figures are accurate, deserves to be preserved and widely circulated. He said that up to July 28th last, twenty Members had made 1,326......

No One Who Has Ever Driven In A Heavily Laden

tramcar can have helped experiencing the feeling that the scientific mechanists ought to turn their attention to finding some means of starting the car mechanically, and so of......