25 OCTOBER 1884, page 3

A Correspondent Of The Telegraph Reports A Conversation...

with a statesman of mark, who believes that the most serious subject of discussion at the coming Conference at Berlin will be the method of legalising annexations made in savage......

All Movement In France Is Now Governed By Fear Of

the elections. It is understood that the peasantry dread war with China, and consequently it is not declared ; while foolish little credits of £400,000 are demanded for Tonquin......

The Medical World Has Reason To Be Proud Of One

of its members who died this week, as the consequence of a really heroic act performed in the course of his professional duty. Dr. Samuel Rabbeth, a young man of only......

Two Continental Upper Houses Are Undergoing Reform. The...

has brought forward its Bill, which virtually composes the Upper House of such hereditary Peers as hold land paying a ground-rent to the State of £300 a year, —or, in other......

M. Joubert Has Resigned His Position In The Executive Of

the Transvaal Republic, in a letter declaring that he will not consent to hold it since the Government of Pretoria has formally broken its engagements with England, and the......

The Prime Minister Has Written A Very Interesting And Wise

letter to the Diocesan Conference at St. Asaph, of which he is a member, on the subject of "The Duty of Churchmen in regard to Disestablishment," confining himself to the......

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It Is Evident, From The Proceedings Of The Incorporated Law

Society at its annual meeting this month, that the solicitors look with favour upon a compromise between the present system and the fusion of the two branches of the profession.......

The News From China Is Not Reassuring For The French,

or indeed, for Europe. The Chinese are pouring troops into Ton- qnin in such numbers, that General Briere de l'Isle, in supreme command there, demands reinforcements of 10,000......