28 DECEMBER 1889, page 1

M. 'spuller, The French Minister Of Foreign Affairs, Is...

an adroit man. He was asked to consent to the con- version of the Egyptian Debt in order that the money so saved might be applied to the total abolition of the corvee. He did......

News Of The Week.

T HE Provisional Government of Brazil is clearly not firmly seated. Ordinary telegrams are still edited or suppressed; but according to some cipher telegrams received in Lisbon,......

Nothing Further Has Been Done In The Quarrel Between...

and Great Britain ; but it is said that a long answer to the latest despatch has been received by telegraph from the Portuguese Foreign Minister, and is couched in conciliatory......

*** The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript, In...

case.......

Still, If Dr. Lightfoot Had Been A Mere Master Of

patristic learning, it might have been much easier to supply his place. He was very much more,—a man of singular simplicity and modesty, of singular disinterestedness and......

By The Death Of The Bishop Of Durham On Saturday

last, we have lost much the most impressive figure on the English Bench of Bishops. He had been greatly weakened by the alarming and, as it was then thought, almost necessarily......