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The Statement About The Amalgamation Of The Midland With The

Sheffield, Manchester, and Lincolnshire Railway which we, with most other journals, quoted last week, was incorrect. The telegram announcing the fact was a forgery, intended......

The German Parliament Has Voted Its Army Budget For Three

years. During that time the regular force to be kept permanently on foot will be 401,659 men—exclusive of course of both Reserves and Landwehr—and the annual expenditure......

The Thirty-nine Articles Have Been Very Properly...

Oxford Congregation as a subject of examination for the ordinary degree. Candidates arc to be examined in them for the future only in the honour schools of theology. A book of......

The Prussian Diet Was Opened On The 27th, In A

speech the most important paragraphs of which refer to ecclesiastical affairs. Pressiii is to have more railways, more railway plant, and so on, but her political work is done......

Mr. James Stuart, Of Trinity College, Cambridge, Has Ad-...

a remarkable letter on University Extension to the resi- dent members of the University. He remarks on the hardship it is to the poorer classes of society that they should......

Mr. Whalley Positively Grows. Anything More Comical Than...

gravity of his letter to Mr. Gladstone informing the Prime Minister that his (Mr. Whalley's) Peterborough constituents think the question whether Mr. Gladstone is, or is not, a......

Sir D. Wedderbum Is Supposed To Have Made A Speech

to the Scottish Law Amendment Society in favour of Home Rule,— rather an absurd proposal for a country which not only rules itself, but generally rules its neighbours too,—but......

Consols Were On Friday 93i To 93i.

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The Imperial German Bill Authorizing The Punishment Of...

who abuse their office by preaching against the State, passed its second reading by 179 votes to 108, and the third reading also by a considerable majority. Herr Lutz, the......