25 NOVEMBER 1871, page 2

It Is Evident That Within No Long Time A Day's

labour for a. skilled artizan will, in England, mean nine hours. The engineers have carried their point, and at a meeting of delegates from the Trade Societies, held on Saturday......

Meetings On The Licensing Question Are Becoming More...

it is felt that the political importance of the dispute increases. from day to day. As yet, however, those who attend them seem to shrink from supporting or proposing any......

The Anti.state Church Society (inconveniently And...

for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control) held a conference last Monday, at which the members were a good deal exercised by the lukewarmness of......

Sir Charles Dilke Made Another Speech At Leeds On Thursday,

which was reported by telegraph in the Tintes. A row had been expected, but he was, on the whole, patiently heard by an enor- mous crowd, part only of thousands who could not......

Lord Russell Has Not Yet Finished Writing Letters...

embarrass his political allies. Last year he wrote from San Remo to Mr. Forster, suggesting that Churchmen would be certain to have a majority on every School board, that where......

Baron Kellersperg Has Failed To Form A Ministry In Austria,

and the task has been confided to Count Auersperg, who has succeeded in filling his Cabinet with notabilities most of whom, Herr Plener excepted, are unknown to the outside......

There Is A Perfect Mania For Railway Amalgamations Just Now.

The London and North-Western have agreed to amalgamate with the Yorkshire and Lancashire, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire with the Midland, while it is believed......

There Has Been A Ministerial Crisis In Spain Of A

curious kind. The party which wants to expel the Ministry at any price, partly because it desires power, partly because it dislikes the plunder threatened against the foreign......

The Solicitors' Journal Seems To Say That The Place In

the Judi- cial Committee of the Privy Council reserved for Sir Robert Collier was certainly not first offered to some of the ablest of the Judges,—in other words, that the......