17 MAY 1879, page 3

Consols Were On Friday 981 To 98i.

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The O'conor Don Was Enabled On Thursday, By The Help

of the Government, to introduce a Bill for dealing with the Irish University question on principles analogous to the middle- class education measure of last year, and the......

The Prospect Of A New University For The North, To

be called "the Victoria University," and to include especially Lancashire and Yorkshire, of which Owens College, Manchester, would be the kernel at the first start, seems to be......

By The Retirement Of The Registrar, Dr. W. B. Carpenter,

which Lord Granville and Mr. Lowe both mentioned with pro- found regret on Wednesday, the University of London certainly loses—in that capacity, at least--services of the......

On Tuesday Night, At The Anniversary Meeting Of The...

Pension Corporation, Professor Huxley, in proposing the toast of "The Press," took occasion, according to his own character- istic and manly fashion, to speak with some candour......

A Committee Has Been Formed, Under The Presidency Of Lord

Rosebery, to support the claims of Greece to the extension of territory suggested by the Plenipotentiaries at Berlin. In a widely circulated address they point out that the......

At The Public Presentation Of The London Degrees On Wednes-

day, Mr. Lowe, referring to the various proposals for filling up the vacant seats, alluded, with cordial approbation, to that for giving one of these seats to the Queen's......

Already A New Commission Is To Be Appointed To Inquire

into the working of our Military system, and especially its effect in securing a sufficient number of effective soldiers. We spend in England and India thirty-three millions a......