The Times Publishes An Account Of An "electric Candle," In-
vented by a Russian ex-officer, M. Paul Jablochkoff, now in Paris. This gentleman uses a " candle " of some compound which is his secret, but into which "kaolin," the clay from......
A Very Enthusiastic Meeting Was Held Yesterday Week At The
Westminster Palace Hotel in aid of Mr. bit's Bill, which abso- lutely prohibited all painful vivisection,—a meeting at which Miss Cobbe made a speech full of true and even......
We Are Happy To Perceive That The Royal Geographical Society
has acknowledged the great services done to science by Pundit Nain Singh, the one Hindoo of our day who has made posi- tive additions to human knowledge. This brave man has for......
The New Bishop Of St. Albans Is To Be Bishop
Claughton, translated from Rochester, and the new Bishop of Rochester is to be the Rev. Anthony Wilson Thorold, now Vicar of St. Pancras, and Canon Residentiary of York......
On Wednesday Mr. Holt Moved The Second Reading Of His
Bill, which the Government opposed, on the ground that what they had done last year had really removed all abuses in this country, and that Mr. bolt's Bill goes too far,—as we......
The Universities Bill Goes Slowly Through Committee,...
losing nothing in the process. On Monday, an attempt made on Clause 13 to get rid of the restriction that the Commissioners are not to have power to make any statute affect- ing......
Vice-chancellor Bacon Held This Day Week That The Name Of
a paper cannot be borrowed for a new enterprise with the mere ad- dition of the word "New" before it. Thus the Era was granted an injunction against a proprietor who proposed to......
The Reform Of Convocation Has At Last Become A Subject
of a certain mild interest to Convocation, and was discussed at the last session of the Province of Canterbury, both in the Upper and Lower Ilouse,—in the Upper House, in......
The New Chancery Judge Is Mr. Edward Fry, Q.c.—now Sir
Edward Fry,—and no better appointment could have been made. Mr. Fry is a very accomplished lawyer in the literary and theoretical sense, as well as a barrister of very large......
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