7 JULY 1883, page 2

Mr. Chamberlain Presided At The Annual Meeting Of The Cobden

Club last Saturday, and delivered an admirable speech, which he commenced by quizzing the Observer,—"a paper which is the organ of those whom Mr. Disraeli used to call 'superior......

A Great Controversy Has Been Raging In The Standard As

to the quantity of education now given in Board Schools. Corre- spondents, usually female, report that the hours are too long, that the work to be done at home is too heavy,......

On The Same Day, A Banquet Was Given To Mr.

Benjamin, Q.C., on his retirement from the Bar. The Attorney-General proposed Mr. Benjamin's health, in a speech which referred with more of honorific feeling than we could......

Mr. Thorold Rogers, In Responding To The Toast Of The

Cobden Club, referred to Tenniel's admirable picture of Mr. Chamberlain as the daring duckling launching out into the pond of Radicalism, and ventured to suggest that, like Hans......

There Is No Brutality Like That Of The Panic-struck. The

deaths at Damietta from cholera exceed one hundred a day, though the population is only 30,000. A cordon of troops has been accordingly drawn round the wretched town, with......

Lord Derby, On Wednesday, Announced That The Government...

to reject the annexation of New Guinea. The Colonial Office had received despatches from Queensland, and had, found no reason for the action of the local Government, except a......

We Regret To Record The Death Of The Duke Of

Marlborough,. one of Lord Beaconsfield's Dukes, a most respectable, most manageable man, who could always be educated, and therefore sat in Cabinets. He knew something of Church......

The L'istes Has Published A Summary Of Lord Randolph...

evidence against the Khedive. With the exception of one item, it amounts to very little. The exception is that Tewfik Khedive is said, on "reliable authority," to have for-......