24 MAY 1884, page 3

An Interesting Letter, Dated November, 1882, A Year And A

half ago, from Lord Tennyson to Mr. Dawson, of Montreal, on the subject of so-called plagiarisms and the resemblances which may be found between one poet's work and another's,......

King Alfonso's Address To The Cortes On The 20th Inst.

was unexpectedly Liberal in tone, but nevertheless S. Canovas has -secured a heavy majority in the Cortes by direct compul- sion on the electors. He announces that all opponents......

The Last Person Interviewed By The Pall Mall Gazette Is

Mr. Albert Pulitzer, editor and proprietor of the New York Morning Journal, a halfpenny paper, which has had an astonishing success. This gentleman is "one of the latest men of......

Canon Boyd Carpenter, Vicar Of Christ Church, Lancaster...

to be the new Bishop of Ripon ; and the Rev. E. Capel Cure, Rector of St. George's, Hanover Square, is to succeed him in the Windsor Canonry which he vacates. It is......

Dr. Rabagliati, Of Bradford, Has Lately Shown That The Pro-

portion of deaths from water on the brain in children above school age has increased considerably between 1870 and 1880, and he attributes it to the operation of the Education......

The News From South Africa, Though Not Exactly Alarming, Is

not good. It amounts to this,—that Cetewayo's old fol- lowers in Zululand are expelling the missionaries, and have - threatened the Reserve, which we are bound to defend. At -......

The French Government Has, It Is Stated, Done A Very

odd thing. The International African Association, founded and managed by the King of the Belgians, has recently acquired by treaty with native chiefs a sort of supervisory power......

Bank Rate, 21 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 101f to 104.......

There Was An Amusing Scene In The House Of Lords

yesterday -week, when the Peers, who had thrown out the Bill to put down pigeon-shooting matches, began with one voice to apologise for what they had done, and to deprecate its......