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We Regret To Notice The Death Of Mr. Gifford Palgrave,

author of "Central and Eastern Arabia," the most remark- able of a remarkable family, who missed in part his true career. He was essentially an Oriental with the European brain,......

Mr. Harry Furniss, In A Clever Lecture Delivered At The

Birkbeck Institution on Wednesday, declared that, while we had few good portraits of any historic personages, we had no satisfactory portrait either of Lord Beaconsfield or of......

The Growing Uneasiness Which Is Felt By The French Working

men owing to the competition of foreign immigrants, has at last induced the Government to move ; and this week it is announced that M. Floquet has advised President Carnot to......

The Horrors Of Whitechapel Have Become Blacker This Week....

before 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, the body of a woman named Elizabeth Stride, originally most re- spectable, but , utterly lost through drink, was found in a yard off Berner......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent.

New Consols (21 1 ) were on Friday 96. to 97.......

The Failure Of The Police To Act When There Is

nothing to act on, has brought down on them a torrent of obloquy. Mr. Matthews, the - Home Secretary, and Sir Charles Warren, the Chief Commissioner, have in particular been the......

Perhaps The Most Remarkable Thing About Such Crazes As...

is their power to infect even those who do not seriously believe in them with an utter inability to see facts as they really are. On Friday, September 28th, a conference of......

Colonel Colborne, A Soldier Formerly Attached To Hicks...

gives in Wednesday's Times an account of an interview with Stanley, which is specially interesting as con- taining Stanley's opinion as to the ease with which the Nile stream......