5 JANUARY 1878, page 3

The Precise Position Of The Silver Question In America Is

described by the Philadelphia correspondent of the Times. The House of Representatives has passed a Bill making silver, which is now worth 11 per cent. less than gold, legal......

Girton College, Cambridge,—the College For' Women,—in...

addition to its buildings begun in 1876 and finished last year, is again full to overflowing, and in need of new accommodation. Forty girls are now in residence, and of these......

Mr. Spurgeon Lectured On Wednesday Night On Candles,—a...

which he had once told a young preacher that any one who was worth his salt ought to be able to preach for a twelve- month. He illustrated his theme with all sorts of candles......

The Following, Which Is A Translation Of Part Of A

letter just received from a French lady in Paris, shows us what might now be going on in London, but for Mr. Cross's Vivisection Act:- " The Sorbonne is opposite my apartment,......

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The Times' correspondent at Alexandria says Egypt is - very ranch divided - in-sympathy about this war. The common people know nothing about it, and the middle-classes are......

Dean Stanley, In Addressing The Audience At The Opening Of

the Westminster and Pimlico Working-Classes Industrial Exhibition this day week, availed himself of the fact that the day on which he was speaking was Mr. Gladstone's birthday......

It Is Announced That The Successful Liquefaction Of...

as we mentioned last week, was effected at Geneva a fort- night ago by M. Raoul Pictet, has been almost immediately fol- lowed by the liquefaction of hydrogen and nitrogen gas......

Trinity College, Oxford, Has Elected Dr. Newman To An...

Fellowship. It was this College in which, as a young man, he held a scholarship, and which he only left when elected to fi Fellowship in OrieL It is creditable to Trinity......

Consols Were On Friday 94i To 94f X.d.

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