27 DECEMBER 1879, page 3

It Is Difficult To Decide Clearly Whether The Situation In

Spain is serious or not, because it is difficult to ascertain the feeling of the Army, but the signs point to a revival of the Republican movement. S. Canovas del Castillo has......

Mr. Gladstone Is Assailed, Of Course, For Everything And...

he writes, but we should hardly have thought it worth while to assail him for saying that, strongly as he had publicly recommended, and still recommends, the concession of......

The Times Calls Attention To The Immense Demand Which...

is making upon Europe for gold. No less than 216,000,000 has been exported there from England and France within four months. The demand is due primarily to the resumption of......

The Journal Of "russian Antiquities" At St. Petersburg...

on the authority, it is believed, of family papers in the pos- session of Count Berg, a curious historical statement. In 1865, the writer affirms, Count Bismarck opened a......

There Appears To Be Some Difficulty In The Way Of

distributing relief in the West of Ireland. The Guardians say that if works are ordered, wages are raised on the farmers, who arc already distressed ; while if money is given......

Mr. H. Barkley Publishes In The Times Some Intelligence From

Bulgaria which might make a third-rate English squire's mouth water. He has recently been offered 3,000 acres of deep alluvial soil, able to grow anything, and within two miles......

London Has Been Informed By Telegraph That Mr. Edison Has

made another advance towards the use of the electric light for domestic purposes. His friends say that ho has found in car- bonised cardboard a better medium than platinum for......

New Zealand, Under Its Late Prime Minister, Sir George Grey,

does not seem to have kept its accounts very prudently. The new Administration of Mr. Hall has stated, through its able 'Treasurer, Mr. Atkinson, that not only was there a......

Consols Were On Wednesday 971 To 97g.

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