3 JANUARY 1880, page 11

The Telegraph Cable To South Africa Has At Length Been

com- pleted, and henceforward we shall know what occurs in the- Transvaal day by day. The situation there has never seemed to us serious, and we now note that Sir Garnet......

Mr. Joseph Cowen, M.p. For Newcastle-on-tyne, Delivered...

a dinner of the Travellers' Association, a somewhat curious speech in favour of the present House of sOonamons. His iloge came to this, that the present House of -Commons works......

Consols Were On Friday 97: To 97r.

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Mr. A. M. Sullivan, M.p. For Louth, Exposes, In An

able letter to last Saturday's Times, the fallacy of the assertion of some -of Mr. Wortley's supporters in Sheffield, that if you strike out the Irish votes, the Conservatives......

Mr. Gladstone Attained The Age Of Threescore Years And Ten

on Monday last, and received on that day, at Hawarden, several deputations, one of them a Liberal deputation from Liverpool, which, besides offering the usual congra- tulations,......

Sir Stafford Northcot,e Presided On Tuesday At The...

dinner of the Exeter Licensed Victuallers, and made a very sensible, if also a very politic, speech, in which he pointed out how much every country owes to its innkeepers and......

Gas Shares Have Fallen Nearly Ten Per Cent, This Week,

under the influence of fresh information as to Mr. Edison's experi- ments with the electric light. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times has visited the inventor at Menlo......

The Revenue Returns Of The Nine Months Of 1879, Between

April let and - the end of the year, do not promise well for poor Sir S. Northcote's next Budget. The net decrease on the revenue of the same nine months of 1878 is £4.48,955,......