18 JANUARY 1879, page 3

It Is Believed That The Threatened Strike Of Miners In

South Yorkshire, which, from the number of men implicated, would have been a great calamity, will be avoided. This result will be due in the main to the efforts of Mr. Mundella,......

The Government Has At Last Moved In The Matter Of

the pro- jected Lotteries for the benefit of shareholders in insolvent banks. .0n the 14th inst., Sir R. J. N. Napier, chairman of the meeting held in Glasgow to establish the "......

Mr. E. J. Lowe, The Astronomer, In A Letter To

Tuesday's Times, mentions a curious instance of the value of small birds in agri- culture :—" Thirty-five years ago, a countryman left here for Australia, taking with him all......

The Strike Of The Goods Guards On The Midland Has

ended in the defeat of the men. They have not avowedly surrendered, but they have " gone in " in groups, and will, we hope, be all re-employed. The threatened strike of the......

The Proposals For Advancing English Money To The Sultan Are

endless, but the most dangerous is one put forward by Mr. Hamilton Lang, in the Times of Monday. He declares that the " mime difficulty," that isi the difficulty of the......

The New Papal Encyclical Against Socialism, Communism,...

a very sensible sort of document. The Pope has, indeed, in relation to these three subjects, got a theme which enables him to contrast to good effect the teaching of the Church......

Mr. Clare Read, On Friday Week, Addressed His...

Dies, in a speech more distinctively Tory than usual. He thought, though himself a seceder from the Government, that the Cabinet was stronger and better without Lord Derby and......

The Austrian Government Has Published A Provisional...

government of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The provinces, united under the name of "Bosnia," and with Serajevo for capital, are placed under the Imperial Ministry, and not under that......

Consols Were On Friday 95; To 96.

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