There Have Been Endless Members' Speeches This Week With...
little in them. Sir C. Adderley, at Newcastle, was for local government and Mr. Forster'e Bill, and against the Ballot. Mr. Hibbert, at Padiltam, said the Liberals in seven......
The Accounts Of The Famine In Persia Are Becoming Terrible.
At a public meeting held at the Mansion House on Wednesday, it was stated that water, always the difficulty of Persia, owing to the almost total denudation of the country, had......
The Earl Of Derby Presided On Wednesday At The Opening
of it new building added to the Manchester Grammar School, and made a most able speech on the relation of education to " getting on " in the world. He believed that the amount......
A Telegram Was Received In London On Thursday Announcing...
the Spanish Finance Minister intended to propose a tax of 18 per cent. on the coupons of both the external and internal debt, —an act as regards the former of confiscation.......
The Quarrel Between The Filerman And Non-german Portions...
Cis-Leithan population of Austria has this week reached a crisis. The Emperor, after much hesitation, has at length refused to accede to the Bohemian demand for an autonomy like......
We Have Lost This Week Two Eminent Scientific Men, Mr.
Charles Babbage, the great mathematician and inventor of the calculating machine ; and Sir Roderick Murchison, the great geologist. They were, iu many respects, singularly......
Sir Thomas Acland, M.p. For Devon, Has Made A Speech
to the Broadclyst Agricultural Association which must have bothered his audience not a little. It was full of hints that the Landed Pro- perty system of Great Britain, that ark......
M. Jules Simon, Minister Of Public Instruction, On...
before the Academy a tremendous philippic against the 'deterioration of morals under the Second Empire, to which ho traced the overthrow of France. After describing truly and......
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