Mr. Horsman Has Brought A Criminal Action For Libel Against
the World. On Thursday his counsel applied to the Court of Queen's Bench for a rule nisi against the publisher of that paper, on the ground that the World had accused......
Mr. John Thirlwall Writes To Wednesday's Times A Very Calm
rejoinder to the strange article on Bishop Thirlwall's tomb, all the bitternesses of which were apparently aimed at the Dean of Westminster, published in the Saturday Review of......
Mr. Hubbard Introduced On Tuesday A Bill To Explain And
-modify the law as to crossed cheques, which has recently been so interpreted by the Judges as to make the utility of the crossing very problematic, or at least, very much less......
Mr. Grant Duff Made A Remarkable Speech On Education Last
week at the City of London College for young men. He said that if England's commercial position was to improve, and more and more of her sons to devote themselves to commerce,......
Mr. Lichfield, Of Hanway Yard, Writes, Apropos Of A Recent
article on the mania for old china, that in 1836 his own house and Messrs. Babcock's were the only curiosity-dealers in Hanway Yard, and there were but six others in all London.......
Sir John Lubbock Has Been Testing His Ants Again, And
yet again finding them wanting. He has placed a glass hive on a pole, and on the other side of the pole has contrived a wooden promenade for the ants, with paper bridges from it......
- Mr. Crookes Has Applied His Remarkable Discovery That...
light exercises a repelling force in a vacnum to weigh the light of a candle. He uses the repelling power so as to twist a certain glass thread round and round, and the number......
We Observe With Pleasure That Lord Lytton Is To Be
succeeded as Minister at Lisbon by one of the ablest of our diplomatists, who has hitherto filled the post of British Chargé d'Affairs of Munich. Germany has recently been one......
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