The Duke Of Argyll Has, It Appears, Settled An Old
Indian con- troversy against the Anglo-Indians. The old theory of Indian administration was that it should be worked by natives, supervised by a certain number of highly......
The Anti-income Tax Reformers Are Holding A Great...
Birmingham, but it does not seem to come to much. The main idea of the speakers is that an income tax to be fair should be heavy on incomes gained without toil, and light on......
The Italian Chamber Has Rejected A Bill Proposed By S.
Correnti, the Minister of Education, suppressing religious teaching in schools. The object of the Minister was probably not so much to prevent the teaching of religion, as to......
The Roman Correspondent Of The Times Mentions A Fact Which,
if it is correct, is of importance, but which we can scarcely believe. He asserts that in the census taken in December 11,000 persons in the single city of Palermo described......
A Woman Has Made By Far The Most Touching And
natural speech on agricultural wages that we have yet seen. At a meet. ing near Caine, called by Lord E. Fitzmaurice, the wife of a labourer named Anne Atter asked leave to say......
The Hurricane In Zanzibar, The Accounts Of Which We At
first believed to have been exaggerated, appears to have been of the most frightful kind. Not only were the Sultan's vessels all wrecked, and 150 loaded dhows or native......
Lord Northbrook, It Would Seem, Intends To Make His Reign
in India a breathing-time for the native populations. In his very first address, made to the Calcutta Trade Association, he told them that his aim would be to "make a reasonable......
A Correspondent Of The Times, Who Signs Himself A "resident
in the County of Waterford," has an odd notion of evidence. He thinks he has proved that the Countess of Desmond of James L's time lived to be 140 years old, when he asserts......
The American Congress Has Just Revised The Apportionment...
and the new list shows that power is rapidly passing to the West. The six States of New England, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connec- ticut......
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