26 SEPTEMBER 1874, page 2

Profellor Fawcett, In A Letter To The Morning Papers Of

last Tuesday, asserted that in Wiltshire the farmers had decided among themselves to lower the wages of their labourers from 12s. to lls, a week, on the strength of the good......

The Emperor Of Germany Has Been Well Received At Kiel,

where he has been present at the ceremony of christening a new iron- clad, and has given it the name of Frederick the Great.' The Emperor must have a larger faith in the power......

The Second Ballot For The Vacancy In The Department Of

the Maine-et-Loire is to take place to-morrow,—not last Sunday, as was wrongly stated,—and the Republicans are very san- guine of success, notwithstanding the fact that the......

We Are Assured By A Letter] In Monday's Times That

a large school of 150 boys has been officially inspected, under the Con- joint Universities' Scheme, for no larger a sum than £37,—i.e., at a cost of about 5s. a head,—and we......

Midhurst Has Returned As Its Member, Without Opposition,...

Thurston Holland, the eldest son of the late eminent traveller and physician, Sir Henry Holland. The new Member is, of course, a Conservative, but evidently one of those......

The Only Important Rumours Of The Week Have Concerned The

relations of Russia to Germany and Denmark. The Tagespresse, of Vienna—which has been already contradicted from Copenhagen, where the rumour of any proposal to merge Denmark in......

The Berlin Correspondent Of The Times, Who Must Be, As

Arch- bishop Manning declares, "a wag," published in Monday's issue a confession of faith which, according to him, Augustus II., Elector of Saxony, was persuaded to sign on July......