... Mr. Hugh Mason ventured to touch on rather delicate ground when speaking at an education and Liberationist meeting in Ashton last night. The latter was convened to hear a lecture from the Rev. J. G. Rogers, LondoD, whose original object in coming down ...

... WORD FOR THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS. Speaking last niglit at the annual mooting of the North Stalf ordshire Licensed Victuallers' Association at Hanley, Mr. C. M. Campbell, M.P., referring to the odium cast upon the trade, said that great deal of tho crime ...

... Lord Houghton and Mr. Childers have been enlightening the farmers at the Pontefract Agricultural Show. The former assumed to speak in the character of one having a practical acquaintance with agriculture. We hardly think that he has succeeded in establishing ...

... The Madras papers speak with certaiotv of . Lord Napier's retirement this autumn. F m li n /anv ! information about Madras, the Madras Mail an nounces the receipt of a special telegram to the effect ' that Mr. Grant Duff had been offered and refused the ...

... Mr. I. L. Bell, MP. speaking the annual dinner of the foremen engineers and mechanical draughtsmen, held in Newcastle on Saturday evening, entered Into the question of the relations existing between capital and labour. He said that after considerable ...

... Mr. Forster, speaking last night at Aberdeen, gave the students of the University of which he was installed Rector some very good advice. Eminently tracheal and thoroughly earnest, his views are always stated with clearness and force. The address of the ...

... Protestants too frequently forget that the Pope is only infallible when he speaks ex cathedra. The fact that he is fully as liable to make ruhtakes as any average individual of the species is unmistakeably evident in his letter to the Emperor of Germany ...

... quite in.stake to speak of the sentenced passed upon the Stauntons as being that Mr. Justice Hawkins. Many of Our contemporaries have fallen into this error, and tho speakers at the meeting held yesterday the Cannon-street Hotel seemed have endorsed the ...

... At the annual dinner of the Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution, on Saturday, Mr. Goschen, speaking from his official knowledge, said that the Duke of Edinburgh had proved himself so gallant and efficient a sailor that he haa earned the thanks ...

... Mr. Henry Rich is always listened to with attention when he speaks upon the subject of Peace. He has long been at tho head of movement which has the support of many good and wise men. So long as he confines himself to the question of Arbitration instead ...

... New French Coinage.—Both the Paris and Bordeaux mints are coining 20 franc pieces, bearing the effigy of the Republic. Speaking at Aberdeen yesterday, Mr. Gladstone said: — Not a drop of blood runs in my vein* except Scotch blood, and a large share of ...

... Sir Massey Lope?, speaking at the South Devon Agricultural Society's dinner, declared that foot and mouth disease was distinctly traceable to importation of foreign cattle; and said ne-thing would be satisfactory but the slaughter of all cattle at the ...