A Horrible Case Of Baby-farming Was Brought Before The...
Magistrate on Monday. "Mrs. Oliver, of Grove Place, Brixton," had advertised for children to adopt, charge £5, and a suspicious policeman followed up one case of "adoption," and......
Mr. Bruce Has Consented To Inquire Into A Ease Of
alleged cruelty at Durham which certainly seems to demand investigation. A respectable man, named Maw, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment for an assault. The warder......
By Far The Beat Speech Made Against It On Thursday
was Lord Derby's. He made a good rhetorical point by asserting that it was absurd to enforce kindness on landlords by law, but his main argument went to prove that the result of......
The University Tests' Bill Passed Through Committee On...
Lord E. Fitzmaurice delaying, at the Prime Minister's request, till the report, the discussion of the question whether the Heads of houses should be excepted from its operations......
Lord Salisbury Was Not At His Best. He Approved Heartily
Mr. Bright's clauses,—which the Duke of Richmond, by the way, specially disapproves,—for creating a peasant proprietary, and remarked that had there been such a peasant......
It Is Somewhat Curious That His Death Occurred On The
fifth anniversary of his great escape from the terrible rail- way accident of the 9th June, 1865, on the South-Eastern Railway. Of that accident Dickens wrote, "I remember with......
Marshal Prim Has Made A Speech To The Cortes, Of
which Renter gives a very enigmatical account. According to his report the Marshal informed hisaudience that he had offered the Crownto "four candi- dates" without result, but......
The Fierce Jealousy Of The Central Government Still Felt In
the United States was curiously illustrated last week by the House of Representatives when they "tabled,"—i.e., deliberately passed by, —the Bill for transferring the power to......
Dickens Was Privately Buried In Westminster Abbey On...
He had explicitly directed a private funeral, and indicated the place in Rochester Cathedral where he wished to lie ; but his friends very wisely judged that the national wish......
The Debate Was Resumed On Thursday By Lord Cairns, In
an extremely long speech, full of detailed criticism decidedly dull to read. He praised Mr. Bright's clauses, but doubted whether Government might not in the end be embarrassed......
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