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The Efforts To Discover The Body Of The Late Earl

of Crawford have entirely failed, and it is believed that the family will very soon give up the search. They wish it to be known, it is stated, that they are certain the body......

Sir John Lubbock Also Made A Remarkable Speech At The

same meeting of the Bromley Liberal Association, of which he has accepted the office of president for the ensuing year. He remarked that Lord Salisbury and the Con- servatives,......

Sir Frederick Leighton, The President Of The Royal...

a very able lecture to the Art students of the Academy last Saturday, in which he at once traversed the ethical theory of Art,—that which ascribes all its vitality and force to......

President Arthur Directed Mr. Blaine, Before His...

to Chili and Peru that he did not intend to use force to compel them to come to terms. Accordingly, on Novem- ber 22nd, Mr. Blaine addressed to Mr. Hurlbut, the American......

Consols Were On Friday 991 To 991 X.d.

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Mr. Plunket Made A Speech At Leicester On Tuesday On

the condition of Ireland. He assured his audience that the news- paper reports were not exaggerations, that murder and arson were rife through the greater part of Ireland, that......

The Confusion Of Parties In The German Reichstag Has Become

greater than ever. It was supposed that Prince Bismarck would court an alliance with the Centre; but his organs have abused the Ultramontane leader, Herr Windthorst, in no......

Mr. Walter Powell, M.p. For Malmesbury, Has, We Fear, Long

ago paid the penalty of his too great faith in the safety of balloons. Ascending, on Saturday last, with Captain Templer end Mr. Agg-Gardner, from Bath, the balloon drifted......

Lord Rosebery Has Appointed To The Chair Of Humanity In

the University of Aberdeen his chief adviser on educational affairs—his secular chaplain, in fact—Dr. James Donaldson, Rector of the High School of Edinburgh. The selection......