1 FEBRUARY 1879, page 2

On Tuesday Last It Was Announced That The Queen Had

been graciously pleased to nominate the Rev. Joseph Barber Light- foot, D.D., Canon of St. Paul's, and Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, to fill the......

Sir Stafford Northcote's Increase On The Tobacco Duty...

to have been a success. Three-fourths of all the tobacco used in the United Kingdom is consumed by the poor, who purchase in half-ounces, and as the extra tax cannot be divided......

Another Most Important Trade Is Threatened With...

plearo-pneumonia have been discovered in a cargo of cattle landed at Liverpool from the United States, and the Committee a Privy Council have ordered the whole to be isolated......

There Has Been A Decided Failure In The Khost Valley.

We have never joined in the attacks upon General Roberts, who has appeared to us one of those dashing though over-confident leaders who in India often do great things ; but his......

We Are Very Sorry To Hear From Eye-witnesses That The

Indian Government has sanctioned in Afghanistan the expedient adopted by General Avitabile and Lord Dalhousie for put- ting down fanatic murderers. The men are shot, their......

Mr. Leonard Courtney, M.p. For Liskeaxd., Speaking At The...

Conference of last week on Women's Rights, described a walk in Cheapside some years ago with an imaginative friend, who suddenly becoming possessed by the vision of the ever-......

The Sultan Is Ill. The Sultan Has Been Alarmed By

a new plot, and has dismissed the Minister of Police, and has ordered the guards to be changed every day. The Sultan has received - the draft of the Anal Treaty with Russia, but......

Mr. Bryce Sent To The Times Of Monday Very Interesting

extracts from a letter written to him by the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, who has just resigned his office, on the ground that he cannot get the least attention paid to......