Mr. Bright, In A Letter On The American Protective Tariff
written to Mr. Cyrus Field, puts the case against Protection with almost extravagant force. - " It is strange," he says, " that a people who put down slavery at an immense......
Mr. Balfour's Burial Bill, Which Proposes To Entitle...
to burial with their own rites in any churchyard which is distant three miles or more from a cemetery, and which has not been given to the Church within the last fifty years,......
If Mr. Cross Finds His Act To Check And Restrain
Vivisection losing all respect with the public, it will be chiefly, we believe, because he has granted a licence for a third series of the cruel experiments made by Professor......
The First Contest In Cork County Since The Introduction Of
the Ballot took place last week, the result being declared on Monday, as follows :—For Colonel Colthurst, Home-ruler, 8,157 ; for Sir G. Colthurst, Conservative,......
The Debate Of Yesterday Week On Mr. Meldon's Motion To
establish household suffrage in the Irish boroughs,—i.e., to assimilate the borough franchise in Ireland and England,—was a very interesting one. It elicited, for instance, a......
In Professor J. S. Brewer, The Study Of English History
has lost one of the most original, accomplished, and disinterested of its labourers. He was Professor at King's College, London, but the greater part of his work was done in......
Lord Carnarvon, On Friday Week, Inquired What Precautions...
had taken to prevent the introduction of the plague, observing that lie had a special interest in the question, because he had not only seen the Asiatic plague raging, but had......
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