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The Bishop Of Gloucester And Bristol Has Written Quite A

pathetic letter to his dean about the Bishop of Exeter's speech in the Upper House of Convocation,—the more pathetic because Dr. Ellicott speaks so gently and candidly of Dr.......

It Is Asserted That The Death-rate Is Higher By 4

per thousand (-4 per cent.) in districts where the water is " soft," than it is in districts where it is hard (i.e., usually water impregnated with lime). Glasgow and Manchester......

Messrs. Coleman,—regarding, We Suppose, The Question Of...

Australian meat as one of public interest,—have sent us some of the Australian cooked mutton, off which the present writer has made a most satisfactory lunch. It is certainly......

Mr. Bernal Osborne Has Been Elected For Waterford, After A

-contest excessively savage, not to say brutal, on both sides. There will be some fun in the House of Commons now.......

Nottingham Has Returned The Hon. Auberon Herbert,...

votes to 4,675 given to Mr. Digby Seymour, " Liberal" with Tory proclivities. This balances the loss at South- wark, Mr. Wright, the retiring member, having been a Tory. Mr.......

The Atmosphere Of America Reduces All The Most Romantic...

to matter of fact. We have long known that ghosts get them- aelves photographed (gratis, by the way), and take great delight in flinging about furniture and committing practical......

How High Feeling Is Rising In Rome Between The Galilean

party of Monseigneur Dupanloup and the Roman party of Monseig- neur Manning, may best be judged by the language used by " the venerable and saintly Bishop of Laval," as our......

The Land Bill Has, On The Whole, Been Well Received

in Ireland. 'The Nationalist newspapers call it illusory, but all the moderate Liberal papers praise it highly. Lord Granard, the leader of the -extreme Catholics, says that the......

The New Number Of Macmillan Contains An Article Of Con-

siderable political importance. It is a paper read at Sion College by the Solicitor-General (Sir J. D. Coleridge) on the free- dom of opinion necessary for an Established Church......

Consols Were On Friday Evening 92i To 921.

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Another Mitre Is At Mr. Gladstone's Disposal, In...

the death of the old Bishop of Chichester, who has long been unequal to the full discharge of his episcopal duties. As no one has yet been appointed to St. Aaaph, and it seems......

The North Germans Seem To Think That With A Constitutional

' , Government in France there is nothing more to fear, and are eager to go on eating the artichoke. On the 24th inst. a resolution was introduced into the Reichstag inviting......