It Appears, From An Account Of Viennese Society Now Pub-
lishing in Paris, that there are now no less than seventy Arch- dukes and Archduchesses belonging to the Ilou,e of Hapsburg, who all marry into the Royal caste, form a clan......
Rumours Have Been Circulating All The Week That Prince...
has made some arrangement under which the Portu- guese, in return, probably, for concessions on the Congo, are to cede to him Delagoa Bay. He is then to seize Zululand, protect......
A Meeting Held Last May To Promote The Course Of
the higher teaching in London, resulted in the formation of an Associa- tion for the furtherance of that end; and by this Association a sub-committee was appointed to consider......
A Correspondent Of Tuesday's Times, Who Signs Himself " F.
R. S.," describes at length an operation on the brain of a paralytic patient, by which an internal tumour was removed and legitimate hopes have been raised of the cure of the......
Mr. J. S. Jeans, The Secretary To The Iron And
Steel Institute, on Thursday read a paper before the Statistical Society, in which he showed that the fourteen millions of wage-receivers in the United Kingdom earn an aggregate......
The Bishop Of Lincoln (dr. Wordsworth) Has Announced His...
of resigning his see on or before Lady Day next, owing to the infirmity of his health, which has been much increased by the serious illness of this year. His resignation will be......
Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent.
Consols were on Friday 09g to 991 ad.......
The Whole Scheme Strikes Us As Rather Unpractical And...
; and so, apparently, thought the meeting in which it was discussed on Monday, under the Presidency of Lord Reay, at the House of the Society of Arts. The meeting was evidently......
At The Syston Library Sale On Saturday A Larger Pi
lee was given for a single book than any hitherto known. The " Mazariu Bible," as it is called,—the earliest printed book iu existence, so far as is at present known,—was pm......