17 JANUARY 1880, page 3

Consols Were On Friday 971 To 975,

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London, Mr. Arthur Charles, Q.c. That Disbelief Is...

what we see of the composition of the Liberal Committee for the sitting Member, Mr. Lowe. The Committee has hardly been many days in existence, and yet it contains one hundred......

A Telegram From Cape Town Announces That The Tele- Graphic

communication with the Transvaal is interrupted. `This may mean that the Boers, excited by the arrest of Mr. Pretorius, have risen in earnest ; and we note that two regi- ments,......

The Bishop Of Durham, If He Be Rightly Reported In

the Times of last Saturday, wishes to obtain a "legislative" power for the Convocations of both Provinces, York and Canterbury, without associating any lay element with those......

Sir Robert Christison, The Great Scotch Chemist, Has Made...

curious observations on the effects of a cold, wet season in diminishing the normal growth of trees. He makes out, on careful measurements, that comparing 1879 with 1878, eleven......

The Queen's Bench Division Has Given A Severe Blow To

the Railway Commissioners. That body, at the request of the corporation of Hastings, had ordered the South-Eastern Railway to make certain improvements in their stations in that......

Sir Charles Dilke Writes To The Chairman Of A Meeting

at 'Chelsea that he intends, as soon as Parliament meets, to call its -attention to" the hanging of Afghan private soldiers for fighting .against us, under the orders of their......

Mr. H. T. Fletcher, Who Writes To Tuesday's Times,. From

Bicker, Lincolnshire, believes that those small birds which do not easily change their habitat have been grievously injured by the cold and wet seasons. " Of thrushes,......

Pesth, Usually Quiet, Has Been Almost In Rebellion This...

A Liberal Deputy (M. Verhovay, editor of a Magyar paper), exposed what he considered the fraudulent proceedings of the directors of a bank. Baron Maithenyi, alleging himself in-......

The Paris Correspondent Of The Standard Asserts...

that Prince Dolgoroukoff, Governor of Moscow, has discovered proof of the• existence in Moscow of a secret committee, having for its object the assassination of the Czar. They......