22 SEPTEMBER 1877, page 3

The Loss Of The 'avalanche' Has Led To A Great

scandal on the South Coast. The bodies of the poor seamen washed ashore from the Avalanche 'and the ' Forest ' have been housed and buried in a manner very discreditable to the......

Cleopatra's Needle Will Soon Set Out For The Thames. Mr.

Dixon, the clever engineer entrusted with the task of removing the obelisk, says that he lately took it a six miles' experimental voyage in a heavy sea. While those on board the......

The Turks Do Not Stop Their Atrocities Even During The

agonies of war. At Philippopolis the most active hanging—even of respectable "Manchester," though not English, merchants—and others, is going on. At Carlova, at the relief camp,......

The Trades' Union Congress At Leicester Has Been...

in all its ways—in fact, an exhibition of pure reason itself, as compared with the Congresses at Ghent and Verviers. There were heard not a few expressions of kind feeling......

"this Will Never Do,"—as All Readers Of Lord Aberdeen's...

to the Social Science Congress must feel. The public have endured a good deal at the hands of Presidents of that useful body ; and with a painful recollection of some addresses......

Last Saturday Mr. Lowe Presided At The Autumnal Meet Of

the London Bicycle Club at the Crystal Palace, where a certain number of races took place, after which Mr. Lowe distributed the prizes and made a speech in favour of hieyeles......

Sir John Lubbock Lectured Last Week At Brighton On The

rela- tion of plants to insects, and this time did justice not indeed to the intelligence of bees,—whieh he has always called in question,— but at least to their taste. Flies,......

Mr. 13rassey's Address On Work And Wages At The Trades'

Union Congress at Leicester is a needful corrective to the phi- lippic against English workmen which Sir Edmund Beckett put forth, in his usual acidulous way, the other day.......

The Attempts Of The Admiralty To Blow Up The Hull

of the 4 Forest,' which is floating about the Channel, and a cause of serious danger, first by shell, and then by torpedoes, do not say much for their expertness in using their......

Consols Were On Friday 95 11-16ths To 95 18-i.gths.

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