The " Gresham Committee" Of The Common Council Are In
the agonies of travail with a double purpose. They want to make more of their endowments than they do, but they also want to preserve the Gresham foundation with as little......
The Bank Rate Has Been Raised To 5 Per Cent,
in consequence of a Stock Exchange panic in New York. It was found, on an investigation of the affairs of the Reading Railroad, that an unexpectedly heavy "assessment" would......
Mr. Tom Hughes Delivered A Very Interesting Address To The
Oxford Laymen's League for the defence of the National Church, on the last Sunday in November, the Warden of All Souls' (Sir William Anson) being in the chair. Mr. Hughes dwelt......
Bank Bate, 5 Per Cent.
Consols were on Friday 100/ to 1004xd.......
The Association For Promoting A "teaching University In...
a meeting on Wednesday, in which it was resolved "to approach her Majesty's Government for the pur- pose of obtaining from the Government and the Legislature the necessary......
Drunkenness Having Greatly Increased In Switzerland, The...
to try a new experiment for restricting the sale of alcohol. The manufacture of spirits has been made a Federal monopoly, all distillers being required to sell their produce to......
Dealing With The Objections Of Nonconformists To An...
Church in a day when competing sects are numerous and jealous, Mr. Hughes was perhaps not quite so successful. He would be willing, it seems, to divide the use of the National......
Of The Twenty-seven Lives Lost, At Least Fourteen Have...
depending on them, either a widow and children, or an aged father and mother who looked to them for support. A very liberal subscription has been at once opened for the families......
A Terrible Calamity Overtook Two Out Of Three Lifeboats...
went off in the night of Thursday week from Southport, St. Anne's, and Lytham to rescue the crew of a barque, 'Mexico,' sailing out of the Mersey, which had dragged its anchor......
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