26 AUGUST 1876, page 2

Mr. T. Bond, Assistant-surgeon To The Westminster...

on forensic medicine, offers through the Times a remark on the Bravo case which is of some value. After pointing out, as we have done, that the theory of suicide is not......

There Is To Be A Serious Fight For The Seat

for Bucks, vacant by the elevation of Mr. Disraeli to the Peerage. It was believed that Mr. T. F. Fremantle, son of Lord Cottesloe, would be returned without opposition, and he......

" M.p.," Noting That Lord Beaconsfield Has Taken The Privy

Seal, which gives him an extra £2,000 a year, and precedence even of Dukes, asks through the Times why the English Premier should not always be Lord Privy Seal, and so receive......

Silver Has Gone Up And Down More Than 2d. An

ounce, or say, dper cent., within the fortnight, and the City Editors attack the Indian Council for its method of drawing bills, contending that it " demoralises " the market,......

A Very Large Meeting Of Working-men Was Held In New

York on the 9th inst., at which some very dangerous resolutions were pulled, declaring that it was the "duty of the State to create labour in periods of depression ;" that......

An Elector Of Greenwich Has Written To Mr. Gladstone To

ask him whether he will speak at Greenwich during this Recess. Mr. Gladstone replies that if his constituents wish it, he will consult "those without whom he cannot take any......

One Would Hardly Look To Sir Charles Adderley For Opinions

of the most extreme democratic type, such as prevail in Red Com- mittee-rooms, but are rarely heard of in public assemblies, even ha Republics. In the course of a speech at......

It Seems But Too Probable That The British Government Will

be forced to declare war on Dahomey. The King absolutely refuses to pay the fine inflicted on him, and has become wild with rage at the blockade of Whydah, now strictly......

The Wagner Festival At Bayreuth Appears To Have Been A

great success. The composer had his own way throughout, his audi- ence included "a pit full of Kings," and all the resources of the carpenter and the scene-painter were......

A Little War Has Broken Out In Fiji Which Seems

to have been exceedingly well managed. The cannibal tribes of the moun- tains, with some recently-relapsed Christians, were of opinion that the epidemic of measles was either......