17 FEBRUARY 1872, page 11

The Horror Of Astronomical Catastrophes.

T HE Swiss Times alarmed half the world the other day by threatening us with that particular form of sensa- tional bogy which, because it has a quasi-scientific authority,......

The " Extraordinary " Story.

T HERE is one point of considerable intellectual interest in the " extraordinary story" published this week in the Times and the Birmingham papers, and it is this. The immense......