22 APRIL 1876, page 2

Another Very Singular Murder Is Suspected At Chelsea. A...

named Porter or Chapman, whose husband is in prison at . Constantinople, was found dead at 46 Maude Grove, on April 13, under circumstances which suggested that she had been......

Lord Salisbury Has Ordered The Reoccupation Of Socotra,...

of about 1,000 square miles, at the entrance of the Gulf of Aden, inhabited by Arabs. The island was pur- chased in 1824 from the Imam of Muscat by Lord W. Bentinck, and......

Mr. Gladstone Has Addressed A Letter To His Greenwich...

tuents, through Dr. W. C. Bennett, in which he thanks them for opposing the increase of the Income-tax. His opinion of the ex- pediency of abolishing that tax remains unchanged,......

The State Of Affairs In The City Is Strange. The

Bank of Eng- land has dropped its official rate to 2 per cent., the money-dealers are lending on the best securities at lf, and there is, as the Times reports, an " unhealthy "......

Mr. Forster Made A Good Education Speech At North Tawton

in Devonshire on Wednesday, pegged upon the prospects of a county boarding-school intended chiefly for the sons of farmers, at which the charge is only £21 a year for boys below......

Only Thackeray Could Properly Sing The Achievement Of The...

Nationalists on Easter Monday, when Mr. Butt and Mr. O'Shaughnessy and Mr. O'Sullivan headed a procession of Home- rulers through Limerick, which was received at the O'Connell......

The Ripublique Francaise Of The 17th Inst. Publishes An...

supposed to embody M. Gambetta's view of his party's financial policy. The late Assembly found itself compelled to increase taxation by nearly £25,000,000 a year, and obtained......

The Perpetrator Of A Very Horrible Murder, Committed On The

28th of last month, at Blackburn, was discovered on Monday evening by the help of a bloodhound. A little girl named Emily Holland had been, on the 28th March, sent for......