Temple Bar, It Would Seem, Is To Come Down At
last. The building has been sinking for some time, and on Friday it was perceived that the cope-stone of the arch ha& sunk till a great hole was visible, through which daylight......
Is Sir E. Wilmot A Candidate For The Vacancy Never
quite filled up since Mr. Darby Griffiths' retirement, of the irrelevant:question- after ? Yesterday week he asked the Prime Minister whether, considering the often-expressed......
Mr. G. C. T. Bartley, Of Ealing, In A Short
letter to the Times, describes one of those cases of cruelty which seem so inexplicable, from the entire absence of motive. He found in the Brentford Union, Isleworth, 17......
A Curious And Striking Invention, Called "a Telephone,"...
of which is to telegraph musical sound, and even tunes, through any length of wire, has been made, it is said, by Mr. Elisha Gray, of Chicago. The keys of an instrument are......
A Great Fuss Has Been Made At Shrewsbury About A
flogging case, in which the head master, the Rev. H. W. Moss, inflicted 88 strokes with a birch on a boy of 14, for having repeatedly smuggled beer into the studies of the......
The Saturday Review Has Maintained That Sick Women Do Not
usually wish to be attended by women. An interesting letter in the Times lately, signed "A Surgeon," seems to make it quite clear that this is a mistake. It tells us that " in......
Portugal Has, We Believe, Given Up The Macao Coolie Trade.
At least, she says so, and the Governer of the settlement has prohi- bited it by proclamation. Nevertheless it appears, according to the Journel Officiel, that on Tune 8 the......
Mr. A. M. Sullivan Exposes In A Long Letter To
the Times the fact on which we have so often dwelt, that the Irish Judicial Bench is absurdly overmanned. The work in Ireland as com- pared with the work in England is nearly as......
We Are Happy To See That Mr. Edward F. S.
Pigott has been made the new Examiner of Plays. He has been an accomplished and brilltant journalist, and will know, as well as any one could, how to draw the line between......
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