The Lancashire Cotton Strike Came To An End On Monday,
after lasting for twenty weeks. The strike was against a reduction of 5 per cent. in. wages, and the terms now agreed on are a 2 . 91 per cent. reduction for six months certain,......
Serious Attention Is Being Paid In Germany To Plans For
per- fecting a light coat of mail impenetrable to rifle-bullets or to the bayonet. The one we mentioned last week, invented by Herr Dowe, a tailor of Mannheim, has, it is......
The "want Of Ccnfidence " Debate Of Monday, Which The
'Government had almost challenged, though Mr. Gladstone seems to question that his words implied any challenge, was chiefly important for the remarkable conclusion of Mr. Glad-......
The Daily Chronicle Of Tuesday Described Mr. T. W. Russell
as "a tireless mercenary of Unionism." Mr. Russell brought this sentence before the House of Commons on Wed- nesday as a breach of privilege, explaining what every one who knows......
The Irish Quakers Have Drawn Up A Memorable Addrese In
regard to Home-rule, and forwarded the same by post to over 8,000 of their fellow-members in Great Britain. The address is signed by 1,376 out of the 1,690 Irish Quakers who are......
The Khedive, Who Is Striving Bard To Recover His Autocracy
—being, he says, a wealthy man, and careless if he has to resign—has employed Mr. Wilfred Blunt to state his case in an English Review. It is, substantially, that all Egyptians......
Mr. Morley Made A Curious Attempt On Wednesday To Turn
an Irish private Member's Evicted Tenants Bill into a Govern- ment Bill by accepting its second reading on behalf of the Government, though conditioning for grave alterations in......
Bank Rate, 2?-, Per Cent.
New Consols (21) were on Thursday 98-' x.d.......
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