The Cobden Club Had Its Annual Dinner On Saturday Week,
- under the presidency of M. Michel Chevalier, to whom Lord Hartington afterwards awarded the gold medal of the Club for his achievements in spreading the doctrines of......
A Large Meeting Was Held At Willis's Rooms On Friday
week to further the project of founding a Memorial to Lord Byron. Mr. Disraeli was in the chair, and warmly advocatql the project. He _ extolled Byron's poetry for the "sublime......
Sir John Hay Has Not Benefited By His Appeal From
the Vice- Chancellor to the Lords Justices in the matter of the Canadian Oil Wells Company. Sir R. Malins had decided that he must repay the £1,000 paid him, in order to......
The Report Of The Select Committee Of The House Of
Commons on the New Forest has been issued this week. It consists of a series of Resolutions, the most important of which propose that the ancient ornamental woods and trees......
Mr. George Pollock Writes To Thursday's Times To...
entire discontinuance of chloroform as an anwsthetic, in favour of ether. Chloroform, he says, lowers the action of the heart, while ether stimulates it. The question of the......
Bristol Aspires To A University, Or Rather An Owens'...
of its own. On Tuesday, a deputation from Bristol, consisting of the Dean of Bristol, Dr. Percival, the Head of Clifton College, and Mr. Budd, waited on a meeting of certain......
The Lancet Of This Week Has An Amusing Article On
the ten- dency of railway trains to lull passengers to sleep, and accounts for it on the supposition,—more learnedly expressed,—that it is the vibrations of the sounds in the......
The Geographical Congress Assembled At Paris Has Formed A...
of maps, one of which, of great interest to Englishmen, shows the wonderful extent of the section of the Himalaya between India and Yarkund, regarded often in this country as if......
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