Mr. Forster, Speaking After Sir John Lubbock At The Bradford
Mechanics' Institute, on Tuesday, defended the study of history, intelligently taught, as a discipline for children, against even the intelligent teaching of science, but......
Sir Hardinge G-iffard Made A Speech At Launceston, On Thurs-
day, upon the Eastern Question, in which he stated that England was bound by treaty to maintain the integrity of the Ottoman Empire ; that "Russian atrocities" were as bad as......
Professor Tyndall Delivered On Monday A Very Interesting...
address to the Birmingham Midland Institute, the chief -subject of which,—physical and moral necessity,—we have sufficiently discussed elsewhere. Professor Tyndall began,......
The Death Of Mademoiselle Tietjens Deprives The Lyric...
the greatest artist, both as singer and actress, of her time. No decline of her unequalled powers had taken place; she never sang more superbly or acted more grandly than on the......
The Bank-rate Was Raised On Thursday To 4 Per Cent.,
and it is probable that what with the gradual revival of business and the great expenditure going on in the East, the day of excessively cheap money is over for some time.......
The Most Accomplished Of The Irish Roman Catholic...
Moriarty, Bishop of Kerry, died at his palace at Tralee on Monday last, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, after an episco- pate of twenty-one years. He was at once the most......
Mr. Tweed Is Revealing The History Of His Management Of
New York. He states, among other facto, that he repeatedly bought legislative assistance with the money plundered from the City, -and on one occasion carried a Charter Act by an......
From Monday To Friday A Librarians' Conference Has Been Held
in the theatre of the London Institution, and it has been attended by about 150 representatives, the great German librarians being, however, mostly conspicuous by their absence.......
English Politicians Rarely Take Money, But Englishmen...
little to boast of as to fraud. A report was recently circulated that the Midland Railway had been victimised by a series of "gigantic frauds," and though this is an......
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