... DEFENCE FOR SHEFFIELD. correspondent of the Times, signing himself Sallamshire,” thus speaks of Sheffield : I am not • little surprised the foolish way in which the press 'of London hare written shout the state of our town, and I now wish to repudiate ...

... “Who speaks nowadays of England? The! “ people of Europe are now agreed that Eng“ land need not be taken into higher political “ account than Holland. Whoever during the last ten years has reckoned England a Great Power has deceived himself.” These c ...

... The following letter speaks for itself. It was written by the cashier of a firm of Oe cccasionaliy made smal! and is written on the firm’s >—“* Gentle. men,—As Mr. ae = of the firm) 18 about to ges married, [ take the opportunity of meo- tie circumstance ...

... day last week one of the Liberal Members for Sheffield speaking at the Catlers’ Hall to an audience of employers, sagely, and with a measure of solemuity, deprecated “ the setting of class against class. That exhortative M.P. was Mr. Two days later he ...

... brethren of the press bravely persist in speaking of the ceremonies gone through Geneva and Berlin as though such hollow and illusory performances were fair specimens of international arbitration. They might well speak of a tournament between a Dragoon mounted ...

... The Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Denbigh, and Alderman Sir Stuart will speak on behalf of the Roman Catholic Schools of South London at Bermondsey Town Hall this evening. The memorial in favour of degrees for women which will be presented to the Vice ...

... Prosperity is proverbially hard to bear, aud we are not disposed to speak harshly of the conduct of gentlemen who have had their heads turned by good fortune. But for the sake of the example which would otherwise be set before general society we would ...

... Senior Member, when speaking at Retford, made the remarkable admission that the House of Commons had ceased to be a House composed of gentlemen. He said that the existing rules of procedure in the Commons were framed “by gentlemen” “for gentlemen,” and ...

... Speaking of the Barbarisms of Civilisation (in able article which appears in tho exceptionally interesting issue of the Contemporary Review fer June), Professor W. Newman points out that, instead of putting the natural renewer of the soil in the place ...

... the latest Government manifesto—if allowable to speak of a Qaeen's Speech under that name—it was intimated that England meant to persist pressing upon the Porte those reforms which had been promised at the time of the Anglo-Turkish Convention, but whose ...

... TO MANUFACTURERS.—A Gentleman speaks and is able to Correspond Commercially in •tt the principal Languages of Europe, and who has had several ears’ experience as Commercial traveller in France, Spain, taly, Germany, Swi zerlaud, Holland,and Belgium, and ...

... YESTERDAY at the Chamber of Commerce Mr. appeared in his best form. He had to speak of matters of business, and as 2 practical man of business he was at home in his theme. Unlike the Uttleyites, he did not talk of the “enormous profits” made or making ...