The Proposal To Construct A Birmingham Ship Canal Has Been
revived in real earnest, and the Times of Monday gives a detailed account of the route which has finally been decided on. Instead of striking for the Severn, which was the old......
The Accounts Of The Use Of Smokeless Powders At The
French and Austrian manceuvres show that something approaching a revolution in the art of war will be effected by this latest mili- tary invention. The Times' correspondent,......
The Rising Is Of Some Importance To Switzerland Itself, As
it has revived the old bitterness of Ultramontane feeling. Seven of the Cantons are under Ultramontane Governments, and they, with the whole Conservative Party, insist that......
The German Emperor And The Emperor Of Austria Met On
the 17th inst. at Roluastock, a castle on the Bohemian frontier of Silesia, nominally to see each other and inspect some military manceuvres. The German Chancellor, how- ever,......
The Standard Correspondent At St. Petersburg, In A...
on Tuesday, gives some curious information as to the pressure of the Chinese upon neighbouring States. Their rapid colonisation of the Amur and of South Ussuria is beginning to......
At The Opening Of The Queensland Parliament On Monday, The
Premier, Sir Samuel Griffith, announced that the Govern- ment intended to propose the division of the Colony "into three provinces with large autonomous powers, with a Central......
On Monday, The Work Of Removing The Rocks Of The
Iron Gates—the huge submerged cliffs which block the navigation of the Danube, and form a series of almost impassable rapids —was inaugurated near Greben, the Greben Rock being......
Europe Has Been Interested This Week, Rather Than Dis-...
by a " revolution " in Canton Ticino. Whenever 7,000 electors in that Canton demand it. the Government " may " refer the question of a revised Constitution to the popular vote.......
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