Into The Remarkable And Characteristic Extract Which We...
week from Professor De Morgan's will, a slight verbal in- accuracy, which, however, essentially modifies the meaning, crept by some inadvertence of our own. We printed it thus :......
The "religious Difficulty" Came Up Again At The Meeting Of
the London School Board on Wednesday, Professor Huxley describ- ing what sort of selection from the Bible he wants,—namely, a selection excluding plain-spoken passages, which it......
Mr. Julian Goldsmid (m.p. For Rochester), Who Is A Master
of Arts of the University of London, has just made his Univer- sity a handsome present,—of £1,000, to be paid in annual in- stalments, to be distributed over ten years, towards......
Sir J. Elphinstone Has Been Lecturing On A Plan For
cutting through Adam's Bridge. He has an impression that if a sum of £100,000 were spent in piercing that inconvenient ocean wall, the route from Europe to China would be 750......
On Tuesday, Mr. Lowther Brought Before The House The Expe-
.diency of strengthening the law against the export of arms by neutrals in the time of war. He wanted the Government to con- .cert with the other European Powers measures for......
Society Considers That Singers And Actresses Ought Not To Be
good. It is an impertinence in them. If, like Jenny Lind, their -goodness is undeniable, then the men they marry must be bad, to give society some small consolation. Either they......
The Peers Cannot Forget The Wrongs Of The...
very dignified and entirely useless officials are not, it appears -from a speech made on Tuesday by Lord Vivian, to be " snubbed " by Secretaries of State or "underlings "like......
Lord Sandon On Wednesday Proposed The Second Reading Of His
:annual Bill for establishing Parish Councils. He wants, as our readers may remember, to elect a small Council of Sidesmen in every parish, who shall have power to prevent the......
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