The Really Important Portion Of The Inquest On The Victims
of the Thames catastrophe commenced on Monday last, the pre- ceding meetings of coroner and jury having been devoted entirely to the identification of the dead. The evidence at......
A Summary Of The Report Of The Egyptian Commission Of
In- quiry has been published, and reveals, besides the well-known financial imbroglio, extraordinary instances of fiscal oppression. No tax, for instance, in Egypt is regulated......
The Government Of India Has Rejected A Factory Bill Proposed
in Bombay for the regulation of the cotton mills. This Bill, there can be little doubt, is mainly supported by the desire of Manchester to hamper the dangerous competition of......
Mr. Sclater, The Secretary To The London Zoological...
a letter written to the Times, makes a suggestion which, if successfully acted upon, will greatly reduce the labour and ex- pense of African exploration. Hitherto it has been......
The Opposition In Canada Has Completely Crushed The...
at the elections, obtaining a majority of seventy. The Ministry is expected to resign, and it is believed that a new one, probably headed by Sir J. Macdonald, or Dr. Tupper,......
Mr. Baxter On Thursday Addressed His Constituents At...
in a speech remarkable for boldness and vigour. He declared that he had never expected to live to see so many millions of people liberated from that worst of all Governments,......
A Correspondent Of The Times, Who Was Present At The
trial of Cornelius Spillane, declares that the Judge was right, and that the man's wife was killed almost by accident. Spillane was angry with her for drinking, but only struck......
The Latest Report Current Is That The French Minister Of
Finance, M. Leon Say, has resigned. He wishes to convert the Five per Cents., but M. Gambetta holds that the operation will injure credit with the peasantry.......
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