A Prospectus Has Been Issued By The East India Irrigation
Company asking for another million for irrigation works in Orissa. The Directors now fix their expectations at the modest return of 12 per cent., to be raised in certain......
Mr. Coleridge's Bill For Abolishing Tests At Oxford And...
bridge was adjourned on Wednesday without a division. We have analyzed the arguments elsewhere, but the debate was remark- able for the debut of a man likely to be heard of......
A Very Large Meeting Of The Reform League Was Held
at St. James's Hall on Tuesday, to support Mr. Gladstone's policy, and " denounce the conduct of Mr. Disraeli and the present Govern- ment." The meeting, which is described as"......
The Report Of The Directors Of The European Assurance...
states that the total premiums on the new business of the past year amounted to 55,2651., whilst the gross receipts were 363,250/., against 349,1431. in 1866. The payments of......
The Transactions In The Market For Home Securities This Week
have been by no means extensive. Prices, however, have tended upwards. Consols, for money, have been done at 941, 1, and for the 4th of June, 921, 93. The closing money price,......
The Queen Laid The First Stone Of The New Hospital ,
of St. Thomas on the South embankment of the Thames on Wednesday. The ceremonial was performed in a pavilion erected for the occasion, before a select crowd of some 2,000......
We Rather Wonder The Penny Papers All Over The Country
do not , support a decimal coinage more warmly. It would incidentally make their fortunes. We have already the pound and florin, and vrant only the groat, or cent, or dime, or......
The Second Reading Of Mr. Ewart's Bill Introducing The...
system was carried on Wednesday by a vote of 217 to 65, an .extraordinarily heavy vote, considering that the majority of the House know no more about the metric system than......
The Globe Stated In Its Fourth Edition Late On Friday
evening that the Opposition had at length given notice of a motion of want of con- fidence. We fear that the announcement is based on a rash threat by an individual member, but......
Great Eastern...
Great Northern ... Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire London and Brighton ... London and North-Western London and South-Western London, Chatham, and Dover Metropolitan......
Sir Massey Lopes On Tuesday Raised A Debate On The
incidence of local taxation, a subject rising every day into greater importance. He showed that landed property, which is only one-third of the =total property of the kingdom,......
London Is Never Tired Of Admiring Its Own Vastness And
wealth, its population, greater than that of many kingdoms ; its trade, (larger than that of India ; the annual addition of a new city to its extent and resources. It is well......
Yesterday And On Friday Week The Leading Foreign Bonds Left
off at the annexed quotations:— Friday, May 8. Friday, May 15. 151 .... 1.51 371 .., 35 so ... sst 621 ... 62 x. d- 701 ... 701 Mexican Turkish C per Cents., 1858 United States......
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