The Annual Dinner Of The Royal Literary Fund Was Unusually
well attended, and marked by many short speeches, most of them happy. The Swedish Ambassador, for instance, claimed for diplomacy distinct literary rank, diplomatists being,......
Mr. Fronde Returned Thanks For The Toast Of The "interests
of Literature," in a speech in which he mocked a little at the appe- tite of the public for biographical details of great men, and hinted surprise at the taste which likes to......
Tuesday's Debate On Mr. Wilberforce, The Sussex Magis-...
flogged—at the father's request—two little boys for digging out a rabbit from his hedge, and who was severely repri- manded both by the Lord Chancellor and the Home Secretary......
A Very Large Gathering Of Tenant-farmers And Landlords...
at the Cannon-Street Hotel on Tuesday, to present Mr. C. S. Read with a testimonial, consisting of a silver salver and 5,500 guineas. The testimonial is a mark of the......
The Doctor's Assistant, W. K. Vance, And Mrs. Helen Snee,
whose correspondence on the best means of destroying life secretly has attracted so much attention, were on Friday com- mitted for trial by Mr. Vaughan, the formal charge being......
They Are Wiser In Italy Than In Denmark. In Copenhagen
the King is risking a revolution rather than admit a Radical Minister to power ; but atRome, Victor Emanuel, once aware that the Radicals have a majority, accepts them at once......
At The Royal-academy Dinner, Yesterday Week, The Speaking...
as amusing as usual. Mr. Disraeli again noticed the difficulties which Art encounters in our gloomy and smoky cities. 4 ' It is not, in a city like London, in the power of any......
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