Nothing Looks So Sensible As A Sinking Fund To Pay
off a loan year by year, and nothing succeeds so badly. The burden always proves too heavy at first. The Spanish Government, for instance, according to the Times, has now, out......
The Opinion We Have Often Expressed, That The Dislike To
agri- cultural labour as a hopeless labour is growing throughout the world, and will modify all tenures, receives this week some curious confirmation in an unexpected quarter. A......
Mr. Bradlaugh Has Failed To Punish Mr. Newdegate For Insti-
gating the actions to recover penalties from him for voting in the House of Commons. That Mr. Newdegate guaranteed the nominal prosecutor in those actions is not denied, and the......
Modern Engineers Think They Have Carried The Art Of...
to very great perfection, but a good deal of it must have been known in ancient times. No road is so imperishable as a Roman road, which indicates that the engineers not only......
London Has Been Amused, And A Little Frightened, By A
very strange narrative. The Rev. R. B. Kennard, Rector of Marn- hull, Dorset, a well-known man, of considerable means, sixty- seven years of age, declares that on September 14th......
The Member For East Gloucestershire May Be Right In Saying
England cannot become a huge market-garden, but we suppose he does not want to discourage any profitable cultivation. We may look, therefore, to his party to aid next Session in......
It Should Not Be Forgotten, In Studying The Question Of
re- grating, that behind the Syndicates who are actually operating stand armies of small speculators who follow them. The Ameri- can correspondents say the whole West is alive......