The Scotsman Reports A Most Important Discovery In...
enables the operator to send two messages in opposite directions through the cable at once. It has been actually used on a section of the Eastern Telegraphs' line, between......
If The Standard's Special Correspondent Can Be Trusted,...
issued on the 23rd inst., in the form of a letter to his brother, a manifesto of great importance. It is written by some one who wields a pen of a very different calibre from......
The Emigration Returns Of Last Year Showed That England...
300,000 persons, 80,000 of whom were foreigners, and all intend to settle in some English-speaking country, perhaps the most astounding testimony to the value of the......
The Parisians Have Had An Early Lesson On The Evils
of Protection. M. Thiers, true to his theory that there is a rightful price for corn, insisted on a surtax being placed upon its import, which, as bread was tolerably cheap, did......
Mr. J. Stapleton, Member For Berwick-on-tweed, Has...
to his constituents on the price of labour. His points were, that the prosperity of the labourer benefits every class of society, the higher class more especially, as......
It Is Stated—we Imagine, On Very Little Authority—that...
of Geneva will be permitted to inherit the wealth left by the Duke of Brunswick in Germany, and will thus obtain from five to eight millions sterling. It is more probable, as......
We Are Assured On Excellent Authority That We, And A
large proportion of the Press, have done an injustice to the Purchase Officers in complaining of their 2,245 petitions for inquiry. A regular Circular, we are told, was issued,......
S. Castelar, On His Re-election As President Of The Cortes,
has made a brilliant speech, in which he says he postpones Federalism. With all nations drawing their bonds closer, 'Spain must not be dis- united. There is need for much......
The Siege Of Carthagena Itself Does Not Appear To Advance.
Admiral Lobo, with three wooden vessels, cannot risk the fire from the forts, while the Republican army still remains about twelve miles off, waiting for heavier artillery. The......
The Times Of Yesterday Has A Curiously Powerful Article On
the fate of the Panthay kingdom, in Western China. The Sultan's capital, Talifoo, was a city strongly fortified, and surrounded at a distance of 30 (?) miles by another line of......
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