Mr. George M. Higginson, Who Says He Has Lived Thirty-six
years in Chicago, and has engaged in a great variety of businesses, sends a letter to the Times on the prosperity of Illinois, and its chief city, Chicago. The area of Illinois......
Professor Odling, In His Long Correspondence In The Times...
Canon Liddon on the new B.N.S. (Bachelor of Natural Science) Degree at Oxford, made good, we think, one of his points, though he did not succeed in proving that there should be......
The Cobden Club Held Its Annual Dinner On Saturday, With
Lord Northbrook in the chair. Lord Northbrook has been bitterly attacked for not sticking to the common-places of Free- trade, instead of venturing to indicate what Cobden, had......
Yesterday Week Sir Charles Dilke, In Moving For Papers On
Cyprus, made a very telling speech on the inaccuracy of the information given by the Government as to the state of Cyprus, and the faults of the island administration itself.......
Lord Dunraven On Friday Week Made Another Attempt To Induce
the House of Lords to allow more time for its debates, and so give the younger Peers a chance of intervening. The Lords will dine at eight, and do not care to return, and he......
Mr. Henry A. Severn, Of Herne Hill, Has Invented A
very clever little instrument, called a tell-tale compass, by which the captain or master of a ship, when down in his cabin, may know whether or not the ship is sailing her......
Mr. Gladstone's Letter To Principal Rainy, Explaining His...
relation to the Disestablishment of the Scotch Church, is a very prudent one. No one, however ingenious, would be able to elicit from it more than has long been known concerning......
We Would Call Attention To The Remarkable Account Of An
interview with Prince Vogorides, Governor-General of East Roumelia, which appears in our correspondence columns. We can vouch for the writer's good-faith, and the accuracy of......
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