17 DECEMBER 1881, page 1

A Gleam Of Light Has Appeared In Ireland. Throughout The

present Sessions, Juries have shown some readiness to convict, and this even in agrarian cases. In one case of intimidation, seven prisoners were found guilty, and in another......

As We Expected, The First Accounts Of The Catastrophe At

the Ring Theatre, Vienna, were not exaggerated, but minimised. Instead hf 300 victims, nearly 900 were probably burned or crushed to death, official certainty having been......

An Accident Which Occurred On The North-london Railway On...

has created much interest in London. The place was between Canonbury and Finsbury Park, in the tunnel under Highbury, which is always a scene of excessive traffic, the trains......

It Is Possible That England Will Be Involved In This

Tunis scandal. The " Compagnie Marseillaise," a financing company, bought Khaireddin Pasha's estate, the Enfida—" bigger than Middlesex "—for £100,000. Thereupon, M. Levy, a......

News Of The Week.

HE Rochefort-Roustan trial in Paris is a most discreditable scandal. M. Rochefort, who from the first has denounced the Tunis expedition, recently declared in his paper that it......

The Meaning Of This Verdict Is Clear. The Jury Believed

that the expedition was made for " financial, " that is, " corrupt," motives, and that M. Rochefort, even if in error as to details, had acted rightly in exposing the......

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