We Regret To Record The Death Of Lord De Tabley,
one of the very few poets among the present aristocracy. He died yesterday week. His first poem, " Philoctetes in Lemnos," was probably his best, and a very fine study in the......
The German Government Is Trying To Solve The Agricultural...
by encouraging the production of beet. A tax, ex- pected to yield £1,570,000 a year, is to be laid on the importation of sugar, and of this amount £1,000,000 is to be expended......
The Duke Of Devonshire Received A Deputation On Thursday In
favour of the proposal to establish a new teaching University of London, and to unite that University with the present examining University, as was proposed by the recent......
On Wednesday Lord Halal:airy Opened The Winter Session Of...
Royal Society of Literature by an interesting paper on poetry. The drift was rather to minimise (we think, even excessively) the significance of metre and rhyme, and to treat......
We Ought To Record A Fact Very Creditable To France,
which is endorsed by English witnesses. The Hovas did fight a little when Antananarivo was attacked, but, nevertheless, when the French got in, they maintained perfect order.......
On Wednesday Afternoon, A Meeting Was Held In The Museum
of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, for the pur- pose of erecting a memorial to the late Professor Huxley, the eminent biologist and the founder, as we may call him, certainly......
The University Of St. Andrews Prefers The Marquis Of Bate
to the Speaker who so recently resigned the Chair of the House of Commons—Viscount Peel,—for their new Rector. Lord Bute obtained 120 votes to 80 given to Lord Peel. We sup-......
Canon Clayton Shows, In A Letter Addressed To Monday's...
what Mr. J. S. Brownrigg, the secretary to the National Society, shows still more conclusively, in a letter to the Times of last Wednesday, that nothing can be further from the......
Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.
New Consols (2i) were on Friday, 1071.......
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