15 FEBRUARY 1879, page 3

Lord Hartington Made An Effective Speech In The Liverpool...

yesterday week,—one for which the extreme Conser- vative organs, like the Times, have severely attacked him. One of his chief points was that that feeling of panic concerning......

Lord Claud John Hamilton, In Addressing His Constituents...

same day at King's Lynn, ventured on a few de- lightfully broad assertions. After panegyrising the conduct of the great Afghan campaign (where we have only twice met with......

The Explosion On Board The Thunderer ' Is Declared By

the {Committee of Inquiry to be thus explained :—" That the gun, having missed fire when loaded with a battering charge, was again loaded with a full charge, and fired with both......

The Making Of " Faggot-votes " In Midlothian For The

pur- poses of the Conservative struggle with Mr. Gladstone has been going on with extraordinary spirit and unscrupulousness. It is interesting to observe that amongst the......

Mr. Gladstone In Lecturing Last Monday On Dr. Hook,—the Late

Dean of Chichester,—and in delineating his great talents and great virtues, yet described him as naturally a regular John Bull. " Sixty years ago it was the duty of every......

Sir John Lubbock Has Made Out That Ants Do Not

recog- nise ants of the same nest by any sign or pass-word, though he thinks it impossible that in the case of nests con- taining 100,000 each, all the ants know each other......

It Is A Comfort To See That Mr. Hunter Rodwell,

Q.C. and M.P., the tenant-farmers' Conservative Member for Cambridge- shire, has been addressing the farmers at Ixworth on the sub- ject of Reciprocity, in a strain of the......

Consols Were On Friday 96} To 961.

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