18 MAY 1878, page 3

Dr. Alfred Carpenter Delivered A Lecture Last Week To The

Medical Society of London, in which he laid it down that any consumption of alcohol sufficient to furnish the blood with one part of alcohol in five hundred of blood, is......

A Deputation Of Great Influence, Headed By The Marquis Of

Ripon, and representing mainly the North of England, waited on the Duke of Richmond and Gordon on Thursday, to request that if a new University is instituted at the request of......

Bat We Cannot Say That We Feel So Convinced As

Sir Stafford Northcote, and Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Lowe, and many others -who have discussed this subject with a very strong bias against the multiplication of Universities,......

The News Of The Week From The Cape Is Not

exactly alarming, but it shows that all the native tribes are stirring, and that the British force in the Colonies is inadequate to the work. The tribes between Cape Colony and......

The Rumours That The Fenians In America Intend To Take

advantage of the excitement in Europe to attack Canada obtained some consistency on Friday. A telegram was then received from New York, dated the same day, stating that a body......

The Mr. Cooper Recently Murdered At Bhamo Was Not, As

we suggested last week, the civilian who slew so many mutineers, but Mr. T. 1'. Cooper, the traveller in Western China, Tibet, and Assam, a man of rare energy and resource, who......

Consols Were On Friday 961 To 96i.

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A Controversy Has Been Going On As To The Intentions

of the founders of Keble College, Oxford, from which it has come out pretty plainly, as might have been expected, that while the pur- pose, as defined, certainly was to found......

Wednesday Last Was The Public Day On Which The University

of London confers its Degrees, and owing to the absence of the -Chancellor, Earl Granville, in consequence of the death of his infant daughter, the Vice-Chancellor, Sir John......