The World Has All Been Talking Of The Curious Resemblance
between the story of Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Bessie Costrell" and that of Lucy Clack, living in an Oxfordshire village near Bampton, who was convicted on Tuesday, and sentenced to......
The Rapid Increase Of Population In Germany, Due, It Is
believed, to the increase of manufactures, is becoming of political importance. According to the corrected return of the Census taken on December 2nd, 1895, the Empire now......
Sir Charles Dilke Has Issued A Paper In Which He
invites the politicians of the Gladatonian party to consider whether some very moderate scheme of Home-rule,—partaking ap. parently more of a provincial local government than of......
We Deeply Regret To Record The Death On Good Friday,
at the comparatively early age of fifty-one, of Mr. James Ash- croft Noble, who had been for many years a regular con- tributor to the literary columns of the Spectator. He was......
London Has Been Quite Excited This Week Over A Murder
committed with circumstances of unusual atrocity. An old Jew umbrella-maker named Levy, a man of seventy-five, had -accumulated considerable means, and lived in a small house in......
The Report Of The Royal Humane Society For 1895 Shows,
as always, some splendid examples of heroism and self-sacrifice. No fewer than eight hundred persona received recognition for saving, or attempting to save, life. They actually......
A Very Serious Accident Marked The First Public Use Of
the mountain railway up Snowdon on Easter Monday. In a narrow saddle about half-way between the top and bottom of the mountain the gradient is steep and the curve very sharp.......
Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.
New Consols (2i) were on Friday, 110.......