29 JANUARY 1881, page 3

It Had Become Necessary That The Lord-advocate For...

have a seat in Parliament, and no other being available, his father, the senior Member for Edinburgh, resigned in his favour. Constituencies never quite like these family......

Mr. Rylands On Friday Week Brought Forward A Motion Re-

gretting the annexation of the Transvaal, and trusting the Government would not maintain it. His speech was a feeble one, as he wholly ignored. the native question, and rested......

This Day Week, Lord Cranbrook Delivered. At Lincoln One Of

those stentorian party speeches which somehow make on one the impression of being,—like the ultimate atoms, as viewed by the late Sir John Herschel,—manufactured articles, at......

We Know Few Things More Cruel Than The Way Iu

which lion- tamers,—like those at Sanger's menagerie at Birmingham,— deal with their victims, in order to give the public the trivial amusement of seeing them act like tame......

Italian Physiologists Seem Determined To Follow In Bad...

Dr. Gaetano Leopardi has been appointed. Professor of Clinical Medicine at Siena, and has opened his course by announcing that he intends to pursue the track of Magendio.......

Another Great Figure Has Disappeared From Europe. It Is...

from St. Petersburg, that Prince Gortschakoff, now a man of vast ago, has finally resigned the Chancellorship of the Russian Empire. No man of our time, except Prince Bismarck,......

The Death, Last Week, Of Mr. Sothern, The Great Creator

of the conception of Lord Dundreary, excited far loss attention than the enjoyment which he had given to the public would have led us to expect. For that character was not......

The First Meeting Of The Kyrle Society Took Place At

the Town Hall, Kensington, on Thursday afternoon. The society was founded in 1877 ; its object is to bring " beauty home to the people." Prince Leopold is its president, and......

Consols Were On Friday 981 To 98.

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