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One Of The Great Indian Industries Is Seriously...

science. Professor Roscoe states, in a lecture to the Royal Institution, that artificial indigo has at last been made from an„ acid which is one of the coal-tar products. A......

Lord Salisbury Made A Rather Venomous Speech At The Meet-

ing of the Middlesex Conservative Association on Monday, in which he first reproved. Mr. Shaw-Lefevre for asserting that in Lord Salisbury's speech at the Merchant Taylors'......

The Tunisian Arabs Are Beginning To Express Their Feeling...

the French, just as the Candaharees did towards us, through individual assassinations. M. Seguin, correspondent of the Telographe, apparently a blameless person, who hap- pened......

M. Gambetta Has Returned To Paris From Cahors, Where He

has been received with royal honours, and has made a series of speeches, which, as we have pointed out elsewhere, are distinctly Conservative. He wishes the Constitution not to......

It Is Quite Possible That There May Be Important...

from Bulgaria this summer. The Prince is straining every nerve to secure a majority at the elections to the National . Assembly, which will come off next week, though the first......

Prince Bismarck's Bill For Insuring The Workmen In...

trades compensation and pensions for accident, which he promises shall be the first of a series of Workmen's Bills, has been virtually rejected. The Liberals were unwilling to......

Messrs. Conkling And Platt, The Senators From New York. Who

resigued rather than allow the President to distribute his New York patronage without their consent, have sustained a severe defeat. The ultimate ballot has not yet been......

Archbishop Croke Has An Odd Idea Of The Duty Of

obeying the law. He said, in a speech at Holyeross, Munster, on June 1, " I wish you to repeat here solemnly this evening that the Govern- ment of this country will act an......

Sir Stafford Northcoto Made A Very Moderate Speech At Man-

chester on Wednesday to the Tory gathering held at the Free- trade Hall, in which the only marks of anything approaching to ill-temper were the somewhat peevish and querulous......