17 MARCH 1877, page 3

The Times' Paris Correspondent Of Tuesday Reports A Very Re-

markable exploit achieved off Cherbourg, on the part of a little torpedo-craft called the Thorneyeroft.' Of the Thorneyeroft' very little is visible above water ; on the surface......

Mr. Ward Hunt's Proposal For Improving The Status Of The

Naval Engineers, when moving the Navy Estimates on Monday night, seems to be of the nature of a homceopathic reform. He proposes to increase their number by nineteen, on 1,218......

Consols Were On Friday 96f To 96r.

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An Interesting Case, Involving To Some Extent The...

be put on the Married Women's Property Act, was decided by Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Melina on Tuesday. A farmer near Halifax, of the name of Thomas Outram, engaged as......

The London School Board Seem Determined To Try What They

can do in the way of reforming the national spelling, and have defeated by 26 to 5 a very sensible resolution proposed by Mr. Firth, which would have had the effect of shelving......

At A Very Lively Meeting Held At Bristol On Monday,

Dean Elliot in the chair, to hear a lecture from Mr. B. Douglas, the secretary to the "Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection,"—a meeting much interrupted......

At A. Meeting Of The Royal Society Of Edinburgh, Held

in the Rdinkergh Royal Institution last Monday week, Professor Rutherford presented the results of a new series of those cruel and protracted experiments made on the bile-ducts......