During The Week, The Appeal Court Engaged In Hearing The
Panama case, has been principally occupied with the speech of the Advocate-General, M. Rau, who has been summing-up the evidence for the prosecution, and who declared that he......
The Times Of Tuesday Gives An Interesting Account Of The
present state of the pension problem in America, drawn from the report of the Secretary of the Interior. The annual de- mand for Army and Navy pensions has n'ow reached the......
Fanny Kemble, The Niece Of Mrs. Siddons And John Kemble,
and daughter of Charles Kemble, died last Sunday night in London, at the age of eighty-three. She was not a great actress herself, but she was full of enthusiasm and poetical......
On Saturday Last, M. Tirard, The French Finance Minister,...
and on Tuesday the Chamber passed, a very remarkable Bill, under which the maximum issue of Bank -of France notes is to be raised from three-and-a-half to four milliards of......
On Thursday, Alderman Ben Tillett Was Committed For Trial By
the Bristol Bench of Magistrates, for exciting the people of Bristol to riot, and on other similar charges. The chief evidence against him was the depositions of the police,......
Another Memorial Bust To Carlyle Was Unveiled In The Central
branch of the Chelsea Free Library on Wednesday. It was a bust taken from the studio of Sir E. Boehm. A Chelsea free library is certainly a very appropriate place for a bust of......
Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent. New Consols (2k) Were On
Friday 98f.......
Lord Justice Bowen Delivered A Very Striking Address On...
education to the Working Men's College in Great Ormond Street, last Saturday, which he made a kind of criti- cism on Professor lffahaffy's recent article on the superficiality......
A White-book In Regard To The Affairs Of Samoa, Which
was presented to the Reichstag on Monday, gives some curious facts as to the working of the Tripartite control. It will greatly interest lovers of English literature to know......
An American Expert, Mr. Hamilton Smith, Contributes To...
a very remarkable report on the Witwaters- rand gold-fields, which shows that their richness has not been exaggerated. "There have often," he tells us, " been mines of short......
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