26 APRIL 1879, page 3

General Biddulph Has Some Humour. Two German Students...

Giessen—reading the account of his able passage of the Kojak Pass, wrote him a post-card of greeting, in which they stated (in Latin) that they congratulated him on his passage......

The County Government Bill May Be Considered Doomed. The...

scorned it, Mr. Whitbread ridiculed it, and now Mr. C. S. Read, speaking at Norwich, says the more he has looked at it, the less he likes it. "It would unsettle everything and......

A Deputation To The Foreign Secretary And The Chancellor Of

the Exchequer on Monday concerning the French and Dutch sugar bounties, was followed on Tuesday by a debate, brought on by Mr. Ritchie, M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, on the same......

Sir Stafford Northcote On Tuesday Introduced His Banking...

weak affair. It does not compel Unlimited Banks to become limited, but permits them ; and also allows them to enter a new class, clumsily called " Reserve Liability Banks," in......

The Government Has Evidently Taken Its Final Decision In Re-

ference to Egypt. It will do nothing. Sir Stafford Northcote on Thursday night intimated, in reply to Sir J. Goldsmid, that Mr. Rivers Wilson was about to return to his post as......

The Result Of The Excitement And Ill-feeling Produced By The

con- flict over the French Government's Education measure,—a mea- sure, no doubt, forced on by the Radicals in a spirit as dictatorial as that in which measures of the opposite......

A Negro "exodus," As It Is Called, Has Commenced In

the Southern States. In Louisiana and Mississippi particularly, the negro labourers declare that they cannot get land, except at rents which they cannot pay ; that they are......

Consols Were On Friday 99 To 99-i.

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