24 JULY 1880, page 2

The Postmaster-general, Mr. Fawcett, In Receiving, This...

deputation from the Society of Arts to request the re- duction of the minimum inland telegraph rate from ls. to 6d., replied to the address read to him in a singularly able......

Dean Stanley Has, Of Course, Acquiesced In The Decision Of

the House of Commons, but not exactly with a good grace. The letter to Lord Sydney, in which he sums up the history of the matter, is not written in good taste. The mistake of......

The People Of Liverpool Are Making A Splendid Effort To

endow their " University College," which will probably be, before long, one of the group included with Owens College in the new Victoria University. £80,000 has already been......

The House Of Commons Has Invented A New Mode Of

suppress- ing bores. In the discussion on Mr. Forster's Compensation for Disturbance (Ireland) Bill on Monday night, while Mr. Arthur O'Connor was prosing on at great length, to......

What Might Have Been The Foundation For A Very Questionable

precedent was laid in the House of Commons on Thursday week, when a Bill of Indemnity, sent down from the House of Lords, protecting Lord Byron from the consequences of having......

Mr. Fawcett's Estimate Of The Cost Of Introducing A 6d.

mini- mum for telegrams, with a halfpenny a word for all words over the minimum, was as follows The annual increase of working expenses would be £50,000 ; the loss of revenue in......

Mr. Briggs, Member For Blackburn, On Friday Week Brought Up

the question of the admission of a statue to Prince Louis Napoleon into Westminster Abbey. In a speech which was far too orna1e and young, but full both of fact and argument, he......

The Earl Of Dalhousie Died Suddenly On Tuesday Without Any

previous illness, probably of heat apoplexy ; and by his death Lord Ramsay becomes the Earl of Dalhousie, and his seat for Liverpool is vacated. The Liberals of Liverpool, of......