20 JANUARY 1883, page 3

In A Speech On Tuesday, Mr. Chamberlain Went Further, And

advocated, for Birmingham at least, a perfectly free middle- class education. Why not go on, and advocate a perfectly free University education for all classes, and a perfectly......

The New Bishop Of Truro Is To Be The Rev.

G. H. Wilkinson, the Vicar of St. Peter's, Eaton Square, a man of great organ- ising power, and very popular as a preacher, who was Examining Chaplain to Dr. Benson (the Primate......

A Very Formidable Strike Is Occurring On The Caledonian...

The men allege that they are worked to death, being frequently kept on duty eighteen and twenty hours at a stretch, and paid for overtime only as ordinary time. They therefore......

The Coroner's Jury Assembled At Hounslow To Inquire Into-...

suicide of Dr. Edwardes has arrived at an unusual verdict,. —" That on the 27th day of December, William Whitfield. Edwardes did die from the mortal effects of prussic acid,......

Mr. Brand, The New Surveyor-general Of The Ordnance,...

last Saturday's Times to protest against the disfran- chisement of all property-owners, as owners, under the County Franchise Bill,—a course which had been sketched out as not......

Canon Blakeney, Vicar Of Sheffield And Canon Of York, With

fifty-two clergymen of the same diocese, have written to the Bishop of Manchester, congratulating him on the course he has 'taken in relation to the Miles Platting case, and......

Mr. Mundella Made A Remarkable Speech At Birmingham On...

in opening a new Board School there, on the rapid progress of the compulsory-education principle in England. Fifteen years ago, he had been present at a great conference in......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 1014 to 1011,......

Sir Richard Cross Delivered An Attack On The Government, At

Southport, last Wednesday, which was neither more nor less- remarkable than the average of such speeches. He was very fair and moderate, and rather conventional in tone. He made......