30 DECEMBER 1876, page 3

Lord Beaconsfield Has Done A Graceful Thing In Bestowing A

pension of 150 a year on the Banff naturalist, Thomas Edward, whose remarkable biography by Mr. Smiles we so recently re- viewed. The pension will bestow all the more......

The Latest News From The Cape Is Not Very Satisfactory.

Secocceni has beaten President Burger's mercenaries, and killed their leader, "General" Schliekmann, whose ruthlessness dis- credited European humanity ; and though the defeat......

Dr. Schliemann's Excavations At The Tomb Of Agamemnon In...

seem to produce clear evidence both of the great antiquity of the tomb, and of the high artistic development of the age in which it was closed. Besides the bronze swords, stone......

The Prussian Law Of Divorce Provides That Before Man And

wife can obtain a decree of separation or divorce, both parties must lay their case before a clergyman or a civil magistrate, who is to use his utmost efforts to reconcile "the......

The Anglo-jewish Association Has Waited Upon Lord Derby,...

out that the sufferings of the Jews in Roumania date from the emancipation of that country from Mahommedan rule, to quote some striking instances of persecution, particularly......

Mr. Bright, Considering His Very Great Position As An Orator

and a statesman, a statesman as sagacious in council as any chief of his party, is unduly sensitive to hostile criticism. Commenting on a speech by a Tory Member (Mr. Hick, M.P.......

An Amusing Misunderstanding Filled Mr. Haweis's Church,...

Portland Place, to overflowing last Sunday evening. He had given out as the subject of his sermon " The Sanitary Aspects of Health,"—a somewhat paradoxical title, by the way, by......

In The Straits Of Malacca, The Sea-monster So Repeatedly...

and so repeatedly declared to be mythical, appears at last to have been carefully observed by competent witnesses. The creature was seen by the passengers and crew of the ship......

Consols Were On Friday 94-4- For Money And Account.

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