24 NOVEMBER 1883, page 3

Mr. Shaw Lefevre Should Look Still More Narrowly Into The-

proposal of the Metropolitan Railway to connect Praed Street. with Westminster. The line would be invaluable, if it could be made without too much destruction, but it is to......

Yesterday Week, Sir Stafford Northeote Delivered A Very...

address at Birmingham to the Suburban Institutes Union, on Literature as the greatest monument of human activity which the earth contains. We have commented suffi- ciently on......

The Echo Of Last Saturday, In Remarking On Our Refutation

of its ridiculous charge that Mr. Gladstone's ecclesiastical appoint- ments had been unduly favourable to the High-Church party, tries to attenuate the force of our statement by......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 1011 to 101t.......

Sir F. R. Sandford Has Addressed A Very Interesting Letter

to the Secretary of the National Union of Elementary Teachers, in which he points out that though in the 18,000 Elementary Schools of England and Wales instances of......

A Meeting Of The Council And Friends Of The Association

for Promoting the Reform of Convocation was held on Monday last, November 19th, at the Palace, Exeter, the Bishop of Exeter in the chair, when various resolutions were passed,......

On Monday, Mr. W. H. Smith,—the Conservative First Lord Of

the Admiralty,—made a curious speech on Ireland, in which he said that what the present Government had done during the last twenty years had gravely injured the character of the......

Lord Overst,one Died This Day Week, At The Great Age

of eighty- seven, the possessor of wealth which is supposed to have exceeded even the great sum of twelve millions sterling. He was the eon of the Rev. Lewis Loyd, a Unitarian......

The Prospects Of A Liberal Victory In West Surrey Are

evidently improving. Last Wednesday week a Conservative meeting, held under the auspices of the Godahning and Witley Conservative Association, and presided over by Viscount......