Mr. Fitzjames Stephen Proposes A New Scheme For Securing Law
Reform. He would have a Legislative Committee of Privy Council appointed, consisting of three persons, independent of party, and of course paid, who should draft bills, which......
The Tinies Is In Great Glee Over A Return Of
local taxation, which shows, it says, that the local taxation of England is only 121,000,000, when Sir Massey Lopes and the reformers said it was £30,000,000. They didn't. They......
We Record With Regret The Death Of Dr. Norman Macleod,
editor of Good Words, and one of the moat liberal of the clergy of the Scotch Establishment, perhaps the only man in it who was also in the best sense a thorough man of the......
According To The Pall Mall Gazette, Which Relies On The
French journal Le Malin, a Montpellier doctor has been making experi- ments on the alcoholisation of fowls with this result; —that the creatures take as eagerly to brandy, wine,......
The Bank Of England Has Reduced Its Rate To 3
per cent.......
Tne German Parliament Has Passed The Bill Against The...
placing them as aliens at the disposal of the Executive by 131 to 93 votes, and a proposal to make civil registration essential to the validity of a marriage by 151 votes to......
Mr. John Colam, Secretary To The Society For The Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, writes a valuable letter to the Times. He says nightingales are trapped and caged in great numbers, and can be purchased of all the bird-dealers, who......
England Has Been Enjoying This Week The Blessings And The
miseries of a semi-tropical climate. The thermometer has risen to 85, everybody wants to bathe at once, and the provinces have been visited with terrible thunderstorms. In the......
The Week Has Produced The Dreaded Lock-out In The London
Building Trades ; but at present it appears to have been but languidly enforced, some building firms absolutely refusing to take any part. To a great extent the men are in......
Mr. Whalley Made An Inquiry Yesterday Week Of The Secretary
for Ireland, in language so fearfully and wonderfully incoherent and emancipated from grammatical laws, that the noble Marquis himself voluntarily assumed the duty of......
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