Mr. Colman, M.p., Has So Applied Some Of Mr. Edison's
newest improvements to his private wire between London and Norwich (a distance of 115 miles), that even on a day of great electric dis- turbance, a telephonic conversation was......
At The Conservative Banquet, The Hon. R. E. S. Plunkett
was the speaker, and was very amusing indeed, though on party poli- tics he was not very strong. To show how difficult it was to abstain from politics, he told a story of an......
A New Cause Célèbre Commenced On Wednesday. Sir F. R.
S. L. Gooch, of Benacre Hall, Suffolk, prosecutes his wife, Lady Gooch, and a nurse named Ann Walker, at the Bow Street Police-court, for conspiring to palm off on him a......
The Manifesto Of The Conservative Members Of The French...
to the Senatorial electors appeared on Wednesday. It is a weak paper, and shows that the Conservatives are at a loss for a rallying-cry. They charge the Liberals with intending......
Mr. Newdegate, M.p., In A Speech At The Nuneaton Literary
Institution last week, made some rather just observations on the unfortunate effect produced by the growing pressure of news on the usefulness of newspapers, and congratulated......
Mr. Frederick Leighton, Ila., Has Been Elected The New...
of the Royal Academy, —a choice which is of good omen for the future of English Art, and a credit to the body who made it. The Royal Academicians have for once preferred un-......
The Swiss Papers Record The Overthrow Of M. A. Carteret,
a gentleman who, for seven years, has been almost Dictator of -Geneva. A man of high character and literary tastes, he regarded Ultramontanes much as our forefathers regarded......
At The Colston Anniversary, On Wednesday, The Tories Had The
best of it, so far at least as the amu.singness of the chief speaker went. Lord Carlingford, who was the Liberal spokesman of the -day, was sensible, but not very exciting. He......
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