A Carious Episode In The Nationalist Movement Is Reported...
Ireland. The late directors of the Munster Bank in their extremity applied to the Bank of Ireland for an advance of half-a-million. The securities offered were not deemed......
Mr. Benjamin Baker, Civil Engineer, Read A Paper Before The
British Association, in the Section of Mechanics, which goes far to explain some otherwise unaccountable breakages of iron bridges, beams, and girders. He showed, as the result......
It Is Extraordinary How Little Practical Advantage We Get...
of the balloon. One would have thought it quite possible to make a fair general survey of the interior of New Guinea from the air without much expense, and with no loss of life......
Sir Lyon Playfair Told One Very Singular Story. He Has
ascertained, in the course of some inquiries into the manufacture of lucifers,—of which it appears every English person consumes eight a day,—that there are still a few families......
The Feeling In Favour Of An Easier Transfer Of Land
must be rising fast. Sir R. Webster, the Attorney-General, speaking at Ventnor, has been obliged to say that he was in favour of making land as transferable as any other object......
The British Association For The Advancement Of Science...
Wednesday in Aberdeen. The speech of the President for the year, Sir Lyon Playfair, upon which we have commented elsewhere, was in the main an euloginm on Science as the grand......
The Armstrong Case, So Much Talked Of, Has At Length
been brought into the Courts. The Government have resolved to prosecute ; and on Monday Mrs. Jarrett, Mr. T. Stead, Mr. Jacques, Mrs. Coombe, Mr. B. Booth, and Louise Mourey......
Bank. Bate, 2 Per Cent,.
Consols were on Friday 100k to 1001.......
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