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It Is Still Uncertain Whether Any Large Section Of The

Irish in Ireland approve the course of the Obstructionists, but a certain number of them clearly do. A meeting in their h onour was held in the Rotunda, Dublin, on Tuesday, and......

Mr. Bramwell, The Well-known Civil Engineer, Put Before...

Association a scheme for supplying London with water, for which his scientific ability and practical shrewdness must get attention. His advice to the ratepayers is to have......

We Publish Elsewhere Some Comments Upon The New " Plank

" which the Republicans of Ohio, in order to attract the workmen, have introduced into their "platform." Their candidate for the Governorship of the State, Judge W. H. West,......

A Correspondent Of The Times, Writing From Athens, States...

the whole Greek people is becoming eager for war with Turkey. In Beeotia, the Thebans have raised a " Sacred Band," 1;000 strong, of men who intend to devote themselves to the......

M. Brunet, The French Minister Of Public Instruction, Made A

speech at Tulle on the 19th inst., which seems to have been revised by the Cabinet, for it was not published till the 22nd. Ile reaffirmed emphatically that the Marshal would......

Excursionists From Manchester And Other Places In...

visiting Hawarden Castle. Mr. Gladstone did not cut down a tree for them, but he has of course been compelled to talk to them. He took occasion to tell his visitors from Man-......

The Arrangements For Reporting The British Association...

to have broken down altogether, in London at all events. It is simply impossible to comprehend Mr. Preece's account of the telephone, said to have been an admirable one, from......

The Meeting Of The British Association At Plymouth Ter-...

on Wednesday. It has been the dullest ever held. The scientific men have " sat upon" the half-scien- tific men with ponderous energy, the reporters have either been bored into......

The Canadian Dominion Has A Grave Indian Question On Its

hands. The control of the Indians belongs to the central Government, but the control of the public lands belongs to the Provinces. In British Columbia, where there are fifty......