The "inaugural Address" Of The British Association For...
of Science was delivered at Edinburgh on Wednes- day by Sir W. Thomson. His address was mainly occupied with accounts of the great benefit derived by the world from purely......
Lord Granville, In Reply, Was Of Course Conciliatory ; But
he made one capital point, namely, that so far from an insult, it was a high compliment for the Crown to ask Parliament to embody an undoubted prerogative in a Bill ; and the......
The Ballot Bill Has Got Through Committee, Or Nearly...
after a fashion. That is to say, the principle of secret voting has been sanctioned ; but the much more important prin- ciple that a man who has not 11,000 to throw away in......
Clause 26 In The Bill, Which Provides That All Expenses
at an election not included in the public return shall be deemed corrupt expenses, perhaps the malt effective proposal ever made to check bribery, was also lost by 181 to 81,......
There Was A Charming Dog Case Heard On The Croydon
Circuit on Tuesday. Lady Selwyn claimed a dog, a splendid specimen of the Labrador breed, all black but his chest and paws, and with a magnificent head. It was urged by......
The Terribly Difficult Question, In A - Party Sense, Of A
Catholic College for Ireland came up on Wednesday. Mr. Fawcett moved the second reading of his Bill, nominally intended to throw open . Dublin University and Trinity College to......
We Give Elsewhere An Account Of The Campaign Opened By
the German Government against the Papacy. In addition to the facts there given, it is stated that the Austrian Chancellor, Count Beust, is in hearty accord with Prince Bismarck......
Sir W. Thomson Believes In Evolution As A Zoological Truth,
though not as a biological truth, and he startled Edinburgh by one of the wildest fancies we ever remember to have read. Life, he says, can only come from life—which is true,......
Mr. Walpole Is Avenged. On Sunday It Was Resolved At
a public meeting in Hyde Park that a meeting should be held on Monday in Trafalgar Square to protest against the grant to Prince Arthur. As the proposal for that grant was to be......
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