6 NOVEMBER 1886, page 7

Mr. Balfour's Good Fairy.

M R. BALFOUR, the Secretary for Scotland, in opening the new Board school in South Bridge, Edinburgh, concluded one of those educational speeches which are dull by the very law......

Retrogression In America.

- THE recent news from the United States is somewhat dis- heartening. Mr. Blaine has been more successful in his recent electioneering tour than was believed to be possible, and......