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Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, One Of The Acutest And Most

interesting of the brilliant literary New-England circle of authors, has been lecturing in America ou " reading," and ends his lecture by remarking that we should do very ill......

Last Week, At A Meeting Of The Commission Of The

General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Dr. Begg moved and carried this resolution :—" The Commission, taking ditto consi- deration the threatening aspect of God's Holy......

We Omitted To Mention Last Week The Death Of A

very con- siderable scholar and a very remarkable man, the late Professor George Long, a contemporary of Macaulay's, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, the first......

Consols Were On Friday 97j- To 98.

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Dr. Allman Set A Very Good Example, As President Of

the British Association, this year at Sheffield. By confining him- self on Wednesday to one subject, and that one which he pro- foundly knew, he made a remarkably interesting......

The Rain Has Returned This Week In More Than Its

former force. The Irish mail has been stopped at Chester by the flooding of the railway. The Avon, at Bath and Bristol, has overflowed its Nimbi, and done much damage ; and......

To Conservatives In Want Of A Cry, We Would Suggest

that the best we have heard was contained. in Mr. Mundella's speech on Monday in Sheffield,—one, indeed, that would beat any in " Coaingsby," "Our old Cat and our now......

Yesterday Week Cardinal Newman Received Congratulations...

of different bodies on his elevation to the purple, and by one of them, the committee of his presentation fund, he was told that before his conversion to the Catholic faith, he......

Professor St. George Mivart, Who Presides Over The...

of the Association, delivered an address on Thursday which raised again the old question of the distinction between .animal and human intelligence, a distinction which......