8 SEPTEMBER 1877, page 1

The Inquiry At Bow Street Is Coining To An End,

to the infinite relief of all the public, except those ladies and gentlemen who press forward at every sitting to hear the last bit of evidence or word-fencing between counsel......

News Of The Week

THE great event of the week has been the death of M. Thiers, which took place at St. Germain on Monday, after only four or five hours' illness, owing to a stroke of apoplexy. M.......

The War News Received During The Week Is Chequered. The

Russians have been twice beaten on the Lom, and have had a victory in their turn. But they have not followed up their success, while the Turks, though very falteringly and......

Sir Julius Vogel, In A Very Sensible Letter To Monday's

Times, pointed out how completely inadequate anything like voluntary subscription must be to fight against such a calamity as the Indian famine, and showed, moreover, how......

An Unhappy Strife Has Arisen Even About His Corpse. The

Government, with a feeling that was certainly seemly and pro- bably honourable to itself, offered him at once a public funeral in the Invalides, and the offer, it was......

Mr. Henry Reeve Is So Desirous To Shed Lustre On

the memory of M. Thiers, that he sends to the Times an extract from a very recent letter of the old French statesman's, expressing sentiments which, says Mr. Reeve, "bear the......

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