Mr. Bright Received On Thursday The Very , Magnificent...
the Potteries have so gracefully prepared for him during his time of weakness and retirement. The gift consisted of a beautiful cabinet, filled with the most perfect specimens......
The Times Is Calling Attention To A Practice Which Is
becoming a very serious nuisance. The promoters of new and doubtful Companies, besides advertising them in the usual ways, have begun to forward their prospectuses to all......
The Rise In The Price Of Coal Threatens To Become
a very serious matter. Best Walhend has already risen from 23s. to 35s.,—an increase of 50 per cent. Durham threatens a further rise of 2s. per ton next week, and it is gravely......
Mr. Walter Morrison On Wednesday Moved The Second Reading...
his proportional representation Bill, by which, without going in -for equal electoral districts, which he greatly disliked and dreaded, he would assign to each constituency,......
Mr. Bruce On Thursday Brought His Licensing Bill Into The
House of Commons. Sir Wilfrid Lawson denounced it, of course, as a very weak Bill, but the licensed victuallers, who are tired of 'being all on one side, have accepted it as a......
It Appears That The Upper Ten Thousand Do Not Like
visiting the Bethnal Green Museum when the people of Bethnal Green are there, and have been accustomed to obtain tickets from Mr. Cole, enabling them to inspect the pictures on......
Mr. Bruce On Saturday Made A Very Pleasant Speech To
the Prison Congress. He maintained that there had of late years been "an extraordinary diminution of serious crime in the inked Kingdom?' He did not pretend to explain all the......
The Calcutta Correspondent Of The Times Sends Home An...
-of a report on political affairs in Rajpootana which must be very amusing reading. It contains among other matters confidential esti- mates of the character of the Princes,......