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Professor Jebb Made An Interesting Speech On Tuesday At A

"higher-grade school," which has been erected by the Wolver- hampton School Board, in which he explained that he regarded higher grade schools as a kind of cross between a......

Bank Bate, 3 Per Cent.

New Consols (2) were on Friday 98k.......

A Blunder, For Which We Cannot Account, Slipped Into Our

issue of last week. We spoke of M. Meline as if he had been President of the Chamber. The President is, of course, M. Dupuy, whose conduct after the bomb-throwing we so......

Sir Henry James, Addressing His Constituents At Bury On...

pressed home two points with great force. The first was the degrading effect on the House of Commons pro- duced by the Irish Party of eighty, which, without taking any personal......

The Absurd Attempt To Dispel The Superstition As To The

number " thirteen " by founding a club that challenges ill- luck to vindicate its special proprietary right in that number by way of revenge on this conspiracy to rehabilitate......

The Bishop Of London Delivered An Interesting Lecture In...

College, on Tuesday evening, on "Faith." He com- menced it by saying that about fifty years ago he had a con- versation on the subject with William George Ward,—whose Life has......

On Monday, At The Imperial Institute, Lord Lorne Delivered A

lecture on "Imperial Federation." Though saying pleasant things of Imperial Federation, he was by no means for hurry- ling on any cut-and-dried scheme. He would, instead,......

One Of The Most Interesting Of The Contributions To The

dispute as to the recent colliery strike is Lord llefasham's reply to Mr. Byles (M.P. for the Shipley division of the North- West Riding) in Wednesday's Times. Lord Masham uses......

At The Annual New-year's Gathering Of The Social Demo-...

Federation, held in a hall in Clerkenwell on Monday, Mr. George Lansbury, who presided, denounced Mr. Barns and his friends. "It was hard to see the Burnses, the Bernard Shaws,......