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The Accounts Of The Famine In Cashmere Are Most Deplorable.

It is stated on good authority that when the Government of India sent its officers into the State to inquire and -provide food, the Maharajah, who is the grand regrater of......

The Captain Of Her Majesty's Ship Turquoise' Reports To The

Admiralty, by telegram on May 29th, that the naval engage- ment between Chili and Peru occurred off Iquique on May 21st, and that " the Chilian wooden war-ship Esmeralda ' was......

A Somewhat Novel And Significant Experiment Is About To Be

tried by the University of Cambridge. It has been resolved to institute a special examination in the art and theory of Teach- ing, with a view to encourage the masters and......

Sir Richard Strachey Is Angry Because The Government Of...

is accused of breaking faith by absorbing the Indian Famine Fund, and writes to the Times to declare the imputa- tion not only unfounded, but absurd. " No such Fund," he says, "......

The Death, On Tuesday, Of Baron Lionel Nathan Rothschild,...

last of the four sons of the founder of the firm, and the ultimate head of the House—which is believed to be governed, like an Eastern family, by a family council, with a veto......

It Is Very Doubtful Whether A General Order Directing The

Government of India to substitute native for European officials would be a wise one. The competent natives must be ready first, and even then there will be a difficult political......

M. Blanqui's Election For Bordeaux Was Annulled In The...

Chamber on Tuesday as illegal by a majority of 372 against 33,—most of the Right abstaining from the division. Of the thirty-three who voted for confirming M. Blanqui's......

A Successor Is To Be Appointed To Bishop Gobat, The

reformed Bishop of Jerusalem ; and surely he ought to be a man learned in the Jewish lore, a real Hebraist, and thoroughly familiar with the teaching of the great Jewish schools......

Consols Were On Friday 974 To 971 Ex. Div.

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