28 AUGUST 1875, page 12

Captain Webb's Swim.

T HE pleasure with which all England has received the news of the Merchant Mate's success in swimming the Channel is only natural and right. It is not necessary to believe in......

The Island Of Formosa.

T HE crime of piracy, which seems to the English mind as obsolete as the passion of revenge, has been practised by the semi-savage tribes who inhabit the southern coast of the......