31 OCTOBER 1874, page 3

The American Correspondent Of The Times States That The...

result of the October Elections has been to decrease the Republi- oan majority in the House of Representatives by 13 votes, count- ing 26 on a division, to extinguish the......

Mr. Clare Read Made An Important Speech To The Norfolk

Chamber of Agriculture on Saturday. There had been a dis- cussion on roads, and the Chamber voted, by 22 to 5, that a County Council ought to decide what roads were public and......

A Very Curious Fact Comes Out In The Judicial Statistics

of 1873. It is well known that Ireland, apart from its perennial agrarian difficulties, some drunkenness, and great laxity in punishing murder, is singularly free from crime.......

We Have Just Received From Canon Trevor A Long And

clever letter, which will be found elsewhere. It comes too late for any careful criticism, and perhaps does not need it, for Canon Trevor proves too much. He gives up......

We Doubt Whether American Editors Will Take Much Out Of

" interviewing " Mr. Forster. The New York Herald attempted it on the 11th October, but, on the whole, the catechism to which the interviewer subjected Mr. Forster did not......

The Proceedings Of The Conference At Brussels On The Usages

of - war have been published in the London Gazette, but as they are not binding on anybody, they are of little interest. The only really humane proposal, that of prohibiting the......

Professor Tyndall Lectured At Manchester On Wednesday, On...

Molecular Force, and took the opportunity of some concluding remarks to distinguish his religious Agnosticism from Atheism :—" He had, not sometimes, but often in the spring-......

Dr. Appleton's Elaborate Proposals For The Endowment Of...

in last week's issue of this journal, deserve the careful attention of scientific men. Our own difficulty in criti- cising them for tne present is this,—that we are hardly......

Consols Were On Friday 92-k-93.

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