17 AUGUST 1872, page 2

As Pasha Of Bagdad, In His Place. Three Different Stories

are told to account for this sudden revolution. Accord- ing to the first and least probable, Midhat Pasha, who had been ordered into exile, demanded an audience of his master,......

The Election Was Marked By A Disagreeable Incident. Mr....

indignant at what he considered unfair opposition, declared that in 1868 Lord Pollington had professed his readiness to coalesce with him, had expressed admiration of Mr.......

Archdeacon Denison Must Be In A Terrible Way. If There

is a human being he despises and loves to bully it is an Archbishop, and to be thrashed by an Archbishop in a literary encounter on an ecclesiastical question must be a bitter......

The British Association Meets This Year At Brighton, And Dr.

W. B. Carpenter has been elected President. The main object of his first address-.--a very brilliant one—was to effect a compromise between the men of science and the......

Having Reconciled, Or Tried To Reconcile, The Physicists...

Dr. Carpenter offered to compromise between the advocates of intuition and experience. He believed in experience as the origin of knowledge, but thought that the inherited......

All The Railway Companies Threaten To Increase Their...

order to meet the rise in coals, in wages, and in iron. The increase is to affect both passengers and goods, and will in the latter de- partment, we are told, be very severely......

The Report Of Messrs. Pochin And Whitworth On The Affairs

of the Metropolitan Railway suggests extreme carelessness in the management of the Company's affairs. The books appear to have kept themselves, the solicitors have handed in......

We Have Commented Elsewhere On The Existence Of...

in politics who are most important, yet almost un- known to the world,—and it appears that one of them is just dead, Dr. Abeken, nicknamed in Germany "Bismarck's Pen." He is......