A Plucky Experiment Was Tried Successfully Last Saturday,...
on Tuesday in the present week, at Bradfield' College. This was the presentation of the Alcestis of Euripides in the original Greek. The play was acted partly by the boys at......
Mr. Barclay, Too (m.p. For Forfarshire), Openly Asserted...
distress was greatly due to the trammels on the tenant-farmers, whose improvements had been confiscated by their landlords; and that it was quite as impossible for farmers to......
The Judicial Committee Of The Privy Council Have...
Penzance's decree of June 5th, 1880,in Mr. Mackonochie's ease, so far as he refused to punish Mr. Mackonochie by depri- vation or otherwise for the acts complained of—and which......
The Opposition In The Hungarian Diet On Tuesday Asked The
Premier, Herr Tisza, whether the Government intended to annex Bosnia, to make it autonomous, or to restore it to Turkey. 'The Minister flatly refused to make any reply,......
The Electors Of Meath Have Returned Michael Davitt Unop-...
The election is, of course, void, as Davitt is undergoing a regular legal sentence, but the occurrence shows the temper of the county. Davitt is a much better man than most Land......
Mr. C. P. Ilbert, Of The Equity Bar, And One
of Sir H. Thring's Staff, has been appointed Legal Member of Conucil in India. The selection, though possibly an admirable one, will certainly occasion some surprise. The......
We Are To Have No Commercial Treaty With France, But
M. 'Tirard has introduced a Bill under which, if it passes into an Act, we are to have the advantage of being treated by France as the most favoured nations are treated, so long......
London Has Been Amused This Week By The Failure Of
an effort to export "Jumbo," the colossal African elephant, now at the Zoological Gardens. " Jumbo " is twenty-one, and nearly full- grown, and has, according to the Secretary......
The Alarm Felt About The Revolution In Egypt Is Said
to be subsiding, for no reason whatever that we can perceive. Arabi Bey must dismiss the Europeans, or be replaced by some stronger leader. On the 6th inst., the two......