The "armies" In The South-west Of England Are All Astir
with preparation. The disadvantages of our disjointed and shifting organisation are brought out by the necessity for the gathering of divers battalions at Blandford, there to be......
The Lions Of Loudon Just Now Are The Japanese "ambas-
sadors," that is to say, Sionii Iwakura, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and his suite. They differ very much from the Burmese "Ambassadors." The latter are a knot of......
The Most Practical Suggestion Yet Made Towards Economy Of...
seems to be the use of solid bottoms in ordinary fire-grates. It is asserted, and indeed proved, that in any fire-place not ex- oessively small a plate of iron placed upon the......
Several Of The Papers Have Published Denials Of The Story
that the Khedive is invading Abyssinia, and all kinds of letters are being written about atrocities committed on European women by Prince Kassel. On the other hand, the Neue......
The Death Of Prince Gholam Mahommed, Announced This Week, Is
in one way a noteworthy event. He was the last surviving son of Tippoo Sahib, grandson of Hyder Ali, and the evidence that up to the last years of his life he exercised a sort......
The British Association On Saturday Discussed The Project...
a railway from Alexandretta to the Persian Gulf by a Government guarantee. The cost is to be ten millions, and the idea is that Turkey should build it, and England and India......
There Has Been A Bad Failure In The City. Messrs.
Gledstanes and Co., leading India merchants (Shand, Fairlie, and Co., in Calcutta), suspended payment on Thursday, with liabilities secured and unsecured to the amount of two......
It Is Now Certain That The Great Majority Of The
Spanish Cortes will be moderate Radicals, and S. Zorrilla, the Premier, has ad- -dressed to them a somewhat important speech. He sees his way to an endurable finance, he uttered......
The Present Lieutenant-governor Of Bengal, Mr. G. Camp-...
a very conscientious _person, with considerable intellectual power and a good many crotchets. One of them is that there is no such language as Oordoo, but only Hindostanee,......
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