1 SEPTEMBER 1883, page 3

The Western Mail Of Tuesday Professes To Quote From A.

"Liberal" Gloucester paper—the Gloucester Journal of last Saturday—an article on "The Downfall of England," which contains one of the most violent pieces of vituperation against......

One Of The Most Important Of The Legislative Failures Of

the Session is the loss of the Medical Act Amendment Bill, which might probably have been carried at last, but for the miscarriage of the business arrangements of a single......

The German Reichstag Has Been Summoned At A Very Kinusual

season of the year, but it does not appear that it has met for any purpose except to sanction a commercial treaty with Spain. Probably Prince Bismarck used the opportunity to......

We Are Glad To See That The Lieutenant-governor Of Bengal

has not only strongly expressed his wish to see qualified medical women practising in India, but has discouraged peremptorily the idea of requiring from them any less thorough......

It Is Not, Perhaps, Surprising That The Returns Of Suicides

in great cities make Paris the chief capital of suicide. That is just what one would expect from the chief capital of pleasure. If you make pleasure your main object, you are......

Mr. J. R. Byrne, Writing To Friday's Times From Upper

Norwood, maintains that the true test of reading-power,- reading-power, that is, in the sense of being able to read to yourself for enjoyment,— is the power to read well aloud;......

Switzerland Appears To Occupy A Very Unenviable Position...

to the frequency of divorce. In the Protestant half of Appenzell, there were in 1881 over thirteen divorces to every hundred marriages ; and in Thurgau, there were more than......

Mr. Davenport Handley Is Fighting A Chivalrous Battle In...

landshire against Mr. James IV. Lowther, who represents, we suppose, his namesake's views on the land. We shall not know the result before going to press. Rutlandshire has not......

The Military Rising In Spain Seems To Have Blown Over

with- out much result, and the King, who has just been on a tour of inspection to the various disaffected garrisons, has been, it is given out, very well received. But Sefior......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 11Ali to 1Ni.......