31 DECEMBER 1881, page 2

By The Death Of Viscount Helmsley, The North Riding Of

Yorkshire loses its Conservative Member, and the contest for the seat will probably be very close. At the last contest, in November, 1868, Mr. 0. Duncombe, the Conservative, was......

We Are At Last Fairly Out Of The Transvaal. The

last soldier has crossed Laing's Nek, and the great meeting of Boers, at which it was feared that the Convention might be repudiated, has passed off in silence. A new question,......

The Guiteau Trial Does Not Even Appear To Approach Its

end, though the facts are admitted, and though expert after expert testifies that the accused is perfectly sane. Indeed, he admits this himself, only protesting that he was......

We Have Repeatedly Called Attention To The Entire Break...

of French medical arrangements in Tunis. A writer whose " sin- cerity and competence " are guaranteed by the Tinier, and who is now stationed at Carthage, declares that the......

Mr. Charles S. Miall, In A Letter To Monday's Times,

sum- marises and analyses some of the recent religious statistics of attendances at religions worship on the Sunday. He makes out that in the population of 17 towns, amounting......

The Bishop Of Winchester, Writing To Thursday's Times On The

subject of these statistics, points out the reasons for doubting their sufficiency ; while quite admitting the admirable zeal of the Nonconformist bodies, and their......

The Lord Mayor Himself Is Uneasy On This Question Of

the party character of the movement, and has extracted from Mr. Gladstone a testimonial to this effect,—that so far as his lordship's correspondence with the Prime Minister......

Mr. James Lowther, Writing From Leeds On December 26th, To

the Lord Mayor, to enclose a contribution of L'25 to the Property Defence Association which the Lord Mayor has founded, begins by dashing his handful of gold, as it were, in the......