The Challenge Sent By General Boulanger To M. Ferry Will
probably not result in a duel, M. Ferry's seconds refusing to allow him to accept the proposed conditione,—pistols at twenty- five paces, with the right to take aim and to......
On Thursday, Supply Was Taken In The Commons, And The
debate turned chiefly on a proposal of Mr. Hanbury's to reduce the vote for retiring pay and allowances by the salary of,;Sir John Adye, as a punishment for the blundering which......
The Report Of The Committee Appointed Last Year To Inquire
into the organisation of the Manufacturing Departments of the Army has just been issued. The Report states that the Com- mittee consider the weak part of the present system to......
The Report Of Mr. Burnett, The Labour Correspondent Of The
Board of Trade, just issued, contains some very curious facts in regard to the Trade-Unions. Mr. Barnett estimates the num- ber of men actually belonging to Trade Societies at......
The List Of The Queen's Jubilee Presents, Given In The
morning papers of last Monday, contains a good many presents of interest, though not a few of that elaborately ornamental character where the amount of ornament seems adapted to......
There Is A Very Serious Strike Of Firemen And Drivers
on the Midland Railway. The notices of the drivers and firemen expired at midnight on Thursday, and at that hour a good many drivers and firemen left their train and raked out......
Though The Announcement That Mr. Jay Gould Had Obtained A
concession at Pekin which would put the financial control of the Chinese Empire into his hands, has been contradicted, it appears to be an undoubted fact that a syndicate has......
On Her Journey Across The Atlantic, The Canard Steamship...
encountered a wave of the most extraordinary dimen- sions. So high was the wave, that the officer on the bridge, forty feet above the sea-line, was unable to see over it ; and......
According To The Paris Correspondent Of Tuesday's Times,...
has put out a very softly worded circular, in which he impugns the authenticity of certain documents which have given to the French intervention in the matter of the......
Bank Bate, 3 Per Cent.
Console were on Friday 104 to ioti.......
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