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A Man Named Rodgers Was Till Lately Manager Of The

Cooks- town Branch of the Belfast Bank, and another named Smyth its principal accountant. By the confession of the latter, they stole enormous sums, the account of which varies......

Mr. Barnum Is Quite Ready To Give Englishmen A Good

charac- ter for not offending general American taste. He differs with Mr. Goldwin Smith in thinking that the Americans hate the English, and declares it as the experience of......

Professor Tyndall Delivered A Very Striking Lecture On...

the Royal Institution yesterday week, in which he showed that it is not on clear days, necessarily, that sound is transmitted best through the atmosphere, nay, that often, at......

The Certificated Schoolmasters And Schoohnistresses Seem...

make themselves into a gaild or trades' union, with rather strict rules against dangerous competition; but the conditions of the public service will hardly allow of success. A......

On Tuesday A Meeting Was Held At Liverpool To Promote

Uni- versity Education in the provinces, Lord Derby, with his accustomed caution, declining to preside, till he had had proofs of the success of the movement to be inaugurated.......

Dean Close Has Proposed As The Best Remedy For Railway

un- punctuality to withdraw the accommodation recently given to third-class passengers,—that of having carriages provided in the fast trains. Dean Close's godly jealousy for the......

Lady Burdett-conde, The Great-grand-daughter Of The Lord...

in Edinburgh in 1742, was presented on Thursday week with the freedom of the City of Edinburgh, by the present Lord Provost of that city. She was the first woman, he said, who......

Mr. Justice Grove's Decision Against Ordering The...

Taunton-election telegrams in Court has, we believe, been misinterpreted by some of our contemporaries. What Mr. Jus- tice Grove really decided was, that there was no cause for......

Sir Samuel Martin's Place In The Court Of Exchequer Has

been filled up by the appointment of Mr. Amphlett, Q.C., and M.P. for East Worcestershire, a Conservative, and a Chancery barrister, —the intention being to begin at once the......

Consols Were On Friday 92 To 92k.

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