The Directors Of The Midland Railwayintend To Call An...
meeting of shareholders to explain their demand for 5,000,000/., and Mr. E. Baines writes in the Times a good letter about them. He was for years a member of the audit......
Lord Cairns Has Been Chosen To The Chancellorship Of The
University of Dublin, an office vacant by the death of the astronomer Lord Rosse, with only one dissentient vote. It is a good enough choice. No Oxford or Cambridge Conservative......
Hippophagy Seems Going Up In The World, And We Should
not be surprised if there were persons who insist, next Christmas, on having Christmas horse or Christmas pony instead of Christmas beef. A man writes to the Times to say he......
The London Tailors' Executive Committee Have Determined...
Act passed last Session to regulate the labour of women and children in this and other trades. Under the Act it is for- bidden to employ any child under eight in a handicraft,......
The Kangaroos Are So Multiplying In The Neighbourhood Of...
that great battues have been recently organized, in three of which alone 4,000 kangaroos were captured and knocked on the head. The plan is to set up great stockades too high......
It Appears From Some Official Statistics That There Are...
persons in England and Wales born in Ireland, of whom 298,729 are males, against 9,677,530 Englishmen. The Irish immigration is at the rate of about 18,000 persons a year.......
The Hungarian Diet Has Passed A Bill Emancipating The Jews
by a vote of 64 to 4, a decision which, there as elsewhere, will add great strength to the Liberal party. Russia is now the only first-class power which imposes disabilities on......
A Much Wanted Experiment Is Being Tried In Whitechapel. Mr.
M , Call, manufacturer of preserved provisions, and a small limited company, have erected there a building, 80 feet by 60 feet, to be used as a retail "market." The shops are on......
Yesterday And On Friday Week The Leading Foreign Bonds Left
off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, Doc. 20. Friday, Deo. 27. Mexican 15/ ... 151 • Spanish Passives 251 ... 25/ Do. New — 351 Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858 ... 60 651 „ 1882......
Owing To The Holidays, Very Little Business Has Been...
in National Stocks. Consols for money have been done at 921 1; and for the account, 921 ; Reduced and New Three per Cents. have been 9211; India Five per Cents., 1111 1 ;......
Yesterday And On Friday Week The Leading British Railways...
off at the annexed quotations :— Great Eastern... Great Northern Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire London and Brighton ... London and North-Western London and South-Western......
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