Mr. Disraeli's Appointments To The Vacant Civil-service...
not of a kind to increase the confidence of the public in that Commission. Lord Hampton (better known as Sir John Pakington) is made Chief Commissioner, and Mr. Walrond......
Mr. Auberon Herbert And Mr. John Morley And Others Have
been keeping up quite a long controversy in the Times as to the merit of the Canadian Educational plan, which enables the rate- payer who prefers subscribing to a voluntary......
Mr. Shaw Lefevre Addressed The Electors Of Reading On...
evening, in a speech chiefly devoted to criticising recent foreign and colonial policy. We had, he said, within the past few weeks, been on the verge of a war with Burmah, still......
Mr. Ward Hunt Is The Favourite Victim Of Fate This
year. The 4 ‘ slings and arrows of outrageous fortune "pursue him as steadily as they pursued Hamlet. Mr. E. J. Reed, no trivial antagonist, has taken up his parable against......
A Worse Appointment Still Is That Of Sir Seymour Fitzgerald
to be Chief Charity Commissioner. The Charity Commission, besides its high intrinsic importance, now includes the Endowed Schools' Commission, and ought to be presided over by a......
Alarming Reports Have Been Received From Khokand. It Is...
that the Mohammedans have risen all round the Russians, that all isolated parties have been cut off, and that General Kaufmann, with the main body of his troops, is in danger of......
The Result Of Monday's School-board Election In Finsbury...
remarkable. A very small vote apparently was taken, for the highest on the poll polled only 3,511 votes, when, as we suppose, if the same proportion of electors had polled as at......
It Would Appear, From A Letter In Last Saturday's Times,
that we were mistaken in our view of the proposed limitation of the fellowship and scholarships recently offered for competition in Hertford College to members of the......
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