There Is A Touch Strangely Characteristic Of Anglo-india...
last letter from Calcutta published in the Times. There is a horrible famine raging in Orissa, and a great military scandal at Sank; and the scandal is described, as it would be......
The Russian Government Has Published A Most Extraordinary...
the plot which culminated in the attempt to assassinate the Emperor Alexander. This plot—allowing for the exag- geration of the official style—was a Socialist one, and had for......
The Banquet At Southampton To Mr. Eyre Came Off On
Tuesday, about one hundred gentlemen being present. The principal speakers were Lord Cardigan, Lord Hardwicke, the Rev. C. Kingsley, Lord Shrewsbury, and Mr. Eyre himself. Lord......
The French Press Is Still Furious At Prussian...
the fury is supposed not to be displeasing to the Government. The Bill for the annexations has been made the occasion of long tirades about the shameless use of force by......
" Had I Been Consulted In The Making Of The
world," said a Frenchman with an irreverent turn of mind, "I should have made it a good deal bigger," and sailors seem to be adopting the Frenchman's opinion. We are perpetually......
The Great Eastern Railway Has Gone The Way Of The
London, Chatham, and Dover, and openly announced that it is a losing concern. After deducting from the revenue of the past year working expenses at the ruinous rate of 56 per......
The Statements Of Mr. Merrifield As To The Distress Existing
in Cornwall are considered in that county somewhat exaggerated. There is deep depression, and wages have fallen in places 20 per cent., but as yet there is no need for national......
A Clever Writer In The Builder Wants Experiments To Be
tried in the manufacture, or rather the production of, diamonds. He has a notion that diamonds might be made by the " subjection of carbon along with sulphide of carbon to......
We See From The Lists That One Alexander J. Stewart,
dry-goods person, we believe, returns an income of 814,2001. a year, the greatest in America. If Mr. Stewart is not the mere representative of a company, it is also, in all......
What Do The London Reformers Expect To Get By Worrying
the Queen? It is becoming a regular practice with them to ask permission to send deputations to Her Majesty, and be mightily offended if it is not at once accorded. Suppose they......
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