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... SAMUEL ROBERT GRAVES, M.P., whose sudden death was reported in our columns last week, was of Irish birth and extraction, having been the son of Mr. W. Graves, of New Ross, ...

... Home. THERE are already three candidates for the vacant seat caused by the death of Mr. Graves, M.P. The Liberals at first invited Mr. Fitzjames Stephen, Q.C., but he declined, on the ground that he t ...

... THE Rev. Canon Liddon delivered a second lecture on Buddha and Jesus Christ in St. Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday, discussing whether Christianity was or was not essentially different from Buddhism, an ...

... Fashions 1 THE new style of dressing the hair is almost established, and promises to be as exaggerated as its predecessors; amidst curls of every sort and size, placed longitudinally, latitudinally, a ...

... A\wv7;7/7, JTI-ie REAPejI SHOULD Republics have either Presidents or Second Chambers? Mr. Moncure D. Conway, who assails, under the title of Re publican Superstitions (H. S. King and Co.), the easy ...

... BSIH NOTHING can exceed the patience with which our judges endeavour to unravel the meaning of an Act of Parliament, aud the loose manner in which such documents are drawn is proverbial. On Monday, fo ...

... |Pwr Ohituot) T^cord^j THE HON. AND REV. BAPTIST WRIOTHESLEY NOEL was a younger son of Sir Gerard Noel-Noel, Bart., and brother to the first Earl of Gainsborough. He was educated at Trinity College, C ...

... THE Washington National Theatre has been burnt down. OFFENBACH is setting Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme to music. There are nearly four Roman Catholics in Dublin to one Protestant. Robert Burns's ...

... PRINCES AND CHIEF: 0F WESTERN INDIA \|W' v V \j J Chief of Bhore (Mahratta) (Minor) Thakoor of Wudwan (semi-Rajpoot) Nawab of Radhunpoor (Mahomedan) Sirdar of Sangli (Mahratta Sirdar) Sir Salar Jung, ...

... Rural JN[qtes THE recent snap of dry frosty weather, though an im provement on the wet, in so far that it will help to pulverise heavy clays which have been unsown, will yet retard very much the compl ...

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