24 JANUARY 1880, page 3

In Our Last Impression, We Inadvertently Wrote " The Bishop

of Durham," by a slip of the pen, for " the Bishop of Carlisle," in relation to the remark of the latter (Bishop Harvey Goodwin) that he would rather see Convocation as it is......

The New French Government Read Its Programme To Both...

yesterday week, and a rather colourless programme it was. M. de Freycinet began by declaring that the change of government does not indicate "the abandonment of that prudent and......

Mr. Burt, The Universally Respected Member For Morpeth,...

for the working-class with an authority such as no other Member of Parliament possesses, addressed his consti- tuents at Bedlington this day week, in a speech of censure on the......

At The Annual Meeting Of The Liverpool Penny...

week, Lord Derby made an admirable and even striking speech on Thrift, prefacing it by the remark that, of course, there was nothing new to say ; but if that were considered. a......

The Times' Letter From Melbourne (published In The Issue Of

last Saturday) is written in so violent and truculent a spirit against the present Administration of that colony, that one can hardly trust it for the most common-place details.......

The Khedive Has Accepted A Scheme Of Liquidation For Egypt

which the Financial Controllers have submitted, and which he hopes "the Powers "will ratify. Under this scheme the unpaid coupons are repudiated, the short loans exchanged for......

One Of The Indications Of The Secularistic Tone Of The

Govern- ment, as well as of the Assembly, is the reception given to General Farre's declaration against special Army chaplains, except in cases of the mobilisation of the......

Console Were On Friday 98i To 98:.

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The Gewerk Verein, The Organ Of The German Trades Socie-

ties, declares that the famine in Silesia is not to be wondered. at ; that the condition of hired agricultural labourers in Ger- many has escaped attention, but that it is......