Active Preparations Are Being Made For The Nile...
is to relieve General Gordon, but there is much con- sternation at the condition of the Nile, which has fallen a couple of feet during the last week instead of rising further ;......
News Of The Week.
F RANCE is at last apparently at war with China, though war had not been formally declared on either side when we went to press. The Chinese Envoys, however, had returned from......
Probably The Most Important Piece Of News In The Week,—at
least, admitting that it is in every respect authentic,—is the account of the successful steering at Meudon, near Paris, of a balloon against the wind, and according to the......
Then Came The Speech Of The Day, Mr. Cowen's, Who,
in pro- posing "The Industries of Tyneside," achieved the feat of speaking, almost with a Ruskinese eloquence and discrimination, of a class of achievements which Ruskin utterly......
The Sensation Of The Week Has Been A Statement, Circulated
on Wednesday, that the commander of a German gunboat had cut down the British flag at a place called Bageida, not very far from the Congo region, on the West Coast of Africa,......
The Prince Of Wales Arrived At Newcastle About Noon On
Wednesday, on his visit to Tyneside. His first duty was to open the new people's park at Jesmond Dene, which Sir William Armstrong, not content with what he had in 1878 added to......
