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Mr. Murray Smith, Agent-general For Victoria, Publishes A...

from Mr. Service, Premier of that colony, convoking a " Con- vention " of the Australasian Colonies at Melbourne on Novem- ber 25th. Each colony is to send four delegates, and......

Mr. Matthew Arnold Delivered His First Lecture In The United

States on Tuesday, in the Chickering Hall, New York. His subject was "Numbers," and his thesis that the multitude generally go wrong, but that the few,—the remnant, he called......

The Municipal Elections This Year Have, On The Whole, Gone

against the Liberals; but that must not be regarded as in any degree tending to establish the existence of a true Con- servative reaction. The truth is that in all minor......

The Times Publishes A Telegram From Its Correspondent At...

announcing the total defeat of the Mandi, or False Prophet of the Soudan. According to his narrative, which was brought in by two soldiers and an Arab, Hicks Pasha, with 11,000......

The Freeman's Journal, Which Does Not Know What It Would

be at, is very angry, both with Mr. Leatham and with us, for our strong view that the union with Ireland should be preserved even at the cost of civil war. We observe that the......

The Silent Struggle Which Has Recently Been Waged Between...

Alexander of Bulgaria and his Russian officers has ended in the dismissal of the latter. Various reasons are assigned for this step, but the substantial one that the Russians......

Something Is Going On In Portugal, And If Lisbon Boasted

a s pecial Correspondent, we suppose we should know what it is ; but at present, affairs are a little obscure. As we understand the situation, Portuguese Liberals want to reform......

Mr. W. R. Brodie, Of West Savile Road, Edinburgh, Is

a Tory graduate of the Edinburgh University, and not quite sure if he can vote for Sir Stafford Nortbcote as Lord Rector. He " doots " if that gentleman " quite adequately......

Bank Rate, 8 Per Cent.

Consols were on Friday 101} to 101?r.......