7 APRIL 1877, page 2

A Horrible Scene Occurred In An Execution At Leeds On

Tuesday, through the breaking of a rope,—a scene which ought to compel the public to reconsider the needless risk of such scenes, and the absolute necessity for an executioner......

Lord Lytton, On 28th March, Took The Opportunity Of Some

Bills for decentralisation being brought before the Legislative Council to explain his "foreign policy." He is disinclined to leave the small States beyond the border alone,......

The Times' Correspondent At Philippopolis Warns Its...

new series of massacres may be in preparation there. The last massacres occurred in May, and the villagers dread a recur- rence of them next month. The old threats have......

Sir Michael Hicks-beach And Mr. Ward Hunt Both Made Speeches

at Conservative banquets on Wednesday, the one at Gloucester and the other at Peterborough, and both of them very bad ones. Sir Michael Beach took credit to England for......

Englishmen Are Apt To Forget, What Natives Always...

Nepaul is now the last remaining State in India which is thoroughly Hindoo, even Travancore having been in some par- ticulars demoralised, and being governed by a family which......

An Unusual Accident On Monday Night Frightened The Whole Of

North London. The proprietor of the Welsh Harp, Hendon, either permitted or engaged a diver named Tatham to let off a new torpedo in the great reservoir at Kingsbury, and two......

A Memorial Has Been Addressed To The Archbishops And Bishops

of the National Church by the Dean of St. Paul's, Canon Gregory, Mr. T. T. Carter (Rector of Clewer), the Warden of Keble Col- lege, the Provost of Eton, and something like......

The Lancet Has Received What May Be Presumed To Be

an accurate account of the Pope's health. A few days ago, after he bad complained for some time of weakness, his Holiness was seized with pain in the right leg, sharp enough to......