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The Home Secretary Has Published A Letter, Which He...

on September 16th to the magistrates of Manchester, on the imprisonment of children. It is a sufficiently clear statement of what he wishes and intends. Sir William Harcourt......

Dr. John K. Ingram, Who, On Thursday Week, Lectured Before

the Trades Union Congress at Dublin, has certainly the courage of his opinions. He ventured to tell the delegates, who in all their resolutions have shown themselves distinctly......

We Have Given Elsewhere A Sufficient Estimate Of The Lord

Chief Baron, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, who died on the 18th inst., but We have given elsewhere a sufficient estimate of the Lord Chief Baron, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, who died on the 18th......

Mr. Rawlinson, The Engineer Employed By Government, When...

was hi the Crimea, to suggest sanitary im- provements, in a speech before the Sanitary Congress at Exeter, told some extremely unpleasant truths about the drainage of some great......

We Suggested Last Week That Edinburgh Might Be First To

try the experiment of applying the Hare scheme to municipal elee- tions, and the citizens seem doubtful if the hint was an imper- tinence or a compliment. We intended neither,......

Dr. Behm And Professor Wagner, German Geographers Of...

have devoted much attention to the statistics of population, have just issued a new edition of their calcula- tions. They arrive, after great labour, at results which we quote,......

The Great Strike In The Cotton Trade, Which Was To

commence at Accrington, will, it is believed, be averted. The Lanca- shire masters have decided to go on half-time, and it will, there- fore, be difficult for the operatives in......

The Latest Invention Is The Photophone. The Rare Metal...

has the property, when acted on by light, of offering more resistance to the passage of electricity than when in dark- ness. Mr. Graham Bell, availing himself of this property,......

Consols Were On Friday 971 To 97,1.

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