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The French Assembly Is Threatened With The Loss Of One

of the few exceptional figures returned by the electors, the Comte de Man, a Montalembert with less Liberalism. For- merly a cavalry officer, he has devoted himself to preach-......

Professor Ferrier's Second Lecture On "sleep And Dreams"...

at the London Institution on Monday, and in it he maintained that the theory of the continual Activity of the mind is inadmissible. Thought ceases or diminishes as the organ of......

We Have Been Informed, By The Agent-general For New Zealand,

that the statement quoted in these "Notes" last week, from the Birmingham Daily Post, respecting the loss and suffering caused in the colony by the long-continued drought, is......

Mr. Serjeant Sherlock Raised Yesterday Week A Discussion...

the old grievance of the grating within which lady visitors to the House of Commons are immured, but Mr. Beresford Hope argued that if this grating were removed, the whole......

M. Waddington, The - French Minister Of Instruction, A...

brought forward the Government University Bill on Saturday, in a speech intended chiefly to minimise the change. He affirmed that the liberty of superior instruction would be......

The Discussion In Committee On Monday Last On The Merchant

Shipping Bill turned chiefly on Mr. Plimsoll's amendment re- spiring the inspection and classification of all ships which are =permitted to go to sea, either by the Government,......

Mr. Justice Brett Made Some Very Severe Remarks In Liverpool

last week to the Grand Jury on the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act of last Session, in which remarks he does not appear to have been quite accurate. He asserted that it......

Several Present And Passed Ministers Attended The Annual...

the Institute of Civil Engineers on Saturday, and made plea- sant speeches. Lord Carnarvon told his entertainers that Governments lived longest through their public works, which......

Consols Were At The Latest Date 04f To 94i.

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