An Instance Of The Very Great Hardship Inflicted Under The
Masters and Servants' Act was brought before the House of Com- mons yesterday week. Luke Hills, who was a carter in the em- ployment of a Sussex gentleman, Captain Hyde, and was......
Lord Shaftesbury Is A Man Of Many Gifts, But None
of these gifts certainly can have been received by him with a better grace than that presented to him on Wednesday by the costermongers, of whose society he is president,—a......
Literary Papers, If At All Respectable And Sober In Their
judg- ments, must take care what they are about. A Scotch jury has just given a verdict for 11,275 against our contemporary, the Athenaeum, for an otherwise very sober and......
Mr. Justice Denman Has, We Perceive, Repented Of His Some-
what hasty action in sentencing W. Craddock, the prisoner acquitted at Hertford for uttering base coin, to a year's im- prisonment for contempt of Court. The Home Secretary on......
Mr. Froude, In His Letter To The Times, Tells A
story which throws the British contempt for the dark races and for idleness into very high relief. "When," he says, "I spoke in Natal of immigra- tion from England, I was told......
Yesterday Week Sir Charles Dilke Brought Out All The Blots
in the Ballot Act, showing how differently different local authorities interpret its provisions ; how some try to give validity to the vote if they can, so long as it is clear......
The Master Of Balliol, Professor Jowett, Has Quite A...
faculty of preaching what one may fairly call suspensive Christ- ianity. That is, he combines a curiously profound vein of Christian sentiment with a somewhat morbid respect for......
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