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Mr. E. J. Reed, M.p. For Pembroke District, And Ex-con-

structor of the Navy, in another long letter, addressed to Wed- nesday's Times, presses further his charge that the"scientific or engineering staff in the Navy are kept down,......

Lord Dufferin, The Governor-general Of Canada, Has Been...

amusing speeches at Toronto, on which we have commented elsewhere. We may mention here, however, that his Lordship evidently considers that the constitutional king of a great......

Sir John Lubbock, Last Friday Week, Continued His...

ants in a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, from which we gather that modern ants are not very fall of resouree, —whatever the ants were which first constructed the......

The Idea Of Using Ladies As Servants Not Having Been

very successful, it is now proposed to employ " gentlemen-helps " for out-door work. It is argued by correspondents of the Times that many gentlemen are very poor, and would......

The English Church Union, In Their Meeting On Tuesday At

145 Cheapside, continued to support Mr. Tooth, and to talk of Disestablishment as the alternative for the repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act. For our own parts, we do......

The Assistant-judge, Mr. Edlin, Sitting With The...

Monday, quashed the conviction of Mr. Slade, the "spirit-medium," by Mr. Flowers, on the legal ground that the Vagrancy Act, under which he was convicted, was not ade- quately......

Sir Wilfrid Lawson Made One Of His Amusing Speeches On

Monday at Edinburgh on the Permissive Bill. He described the Home Secretary as being busily engaged in hanging the men who had got drunk in the public-houses which he had opened......

Consols Were On Friday 951 To 951;

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