... T YPHOID FEVER AND DRAINAGE, THE series of replies which have been provoked by Professor Tyndall's letter to the Times the other day in support of Dr. Budd's theory of the origin of typhoid fever show how far the scientific world at present is from unanimity on this important subject. Professor Tyndall declared in his letter that the question at issue involved no knowledge of medical ...

... THlE EXPERIMENTS AT EASTBOURNE. A SERIES of experiments are in progress at Eastbourne with the view of testing the destructive effect of the shells fired by our modern ridei siege guns on such earthworks as are likely to be used in future defensive and offensive operations. The committee to whom this inquiry has been entrusted consists of artillery and engineer officers, and is under the presi ...

... At the sitting of the German Parliament on Saturday Herr Von Forkenbeck avas almost unanimously elected President. Baron Schenk Von Stauffenberg, Bavarian National Liberal, was elected first Vice-President, and Dr. Haenel (riogressist) second Vice-President. A Daily Acws telegram from Vienna states that the letters between Count Arnim and Count Biilow, which were recently published, are ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) EIT RLIN, Thursday.-The Select Committee of the German Reichstag ...

... THE CONDITION OF THE PRIVATE SOLDIER. ThLe T2 es remarks that the main point in the controversy which has recently been raised respecting the army is whether on the whole the advantages incidental to a soldier's life are greater or less than in those days of a generation or two back which officers long to recall. In answer to this question, the Times quotes William Cobbett's description of the ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. The shock of the Republican defeat at the elections in the United States seems to have broken in pieces the party that has held power without interruption, and even without a serious threat of displacement since the election of Mr. Lincoln. The defeated party have already begun to indulge in that favourite and most useless amusement of defeated parties, recrimination. ...

... I-i. ?? .IF; W I., f, ? ? VN , .1, I t 1? ? ?? I j v0gi 0 s; u&{ ' -Thie giinual metn Ufte Leopse~waa tplc~a .day: At : th ollldes'bf th La. ;d Aisn-stfei ?? iih ?? ?? ro.e i Oirnimghu'U. p 40 ' i; BlR I, TD^S:NtoE ii I . Mr. : conqss D~xor~, ~ 1it The aunna1x 3opWetft0 bxilcdteve om cnitte, as received and approved. 'It reviewed atloimneitable longth the events p1' the past year, espcially ...

... PASTORAL FROM1 THE BISEOP OF BIRMING HAM- (fDY TELEGUiAIc.) (FrM0X OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BIRIMINGHAM, SUN-D-nY NiaoleT. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham (Dr. Ullathorne) has addressed a pastoral letter to the faithful of his diocese, in vjhich he speaks of Mr. Glad- stonU ?? his pamphlet in the following terms:- We have Beau within this fortnight a marvellous spectaclo; ai lnglish ...

... THE PRESENT? AN1D THE VT~EEE. Lord Lynti .ton, woha distriha'lei the prizes at the Qucees Institute, orai jarciaid a- Mr. Greg, in Ila- wo k entitled ' R4saks Ahead,' do- snonstrated, be belies-di laaa-est sntoaaalaltha many of the most iffe 1raat IL1C~lenac upon. which this counwry baa-i rhelc Iurso ~ in-my yA~ faa- the iu(,enil of commeircial andrem. n-a iu-',y coa-d no batit lenave pu in ...

... THE PROPOSED NEW CONFERENCE ON THE USXGES OF WAR. iSPECIAL TELEGBAM.) BERLIN, Wednesday.-The Russian Government is desirous to enlarge the scope of the new Conference on the international usages of war, by making its resolutions applicable to a wider territory. Delegates from the South American States are to be invited. It is also hoped at St. Petersburg that the United States will take part ...

... W-flid ?? Otbio. ARREST OF YAKOOB KHAN. ( MORN1ING POST TELEGRAM.) CALCUTTA, NOV. 17.-The Governor of Herat, Yakoob Khan, having gone to Cabul to visit his father, Shere Ali, Ameer of Afghanistan-at the instiga- tion of the Governor-General of India-to arrange the differences in respect of the succession to the throne, has been treacherously cast into prison, and the worst results are ...

... Odoer 2 2. COTTON-SPINNING by machinery has within the space of one year acquired the importance of a great industry in this country. The Bombay Govern- rmentqfinds that thousands of the people entrusted to its care now spend their lives in mills, and the first result is a proposed Factory Act. As many of the operatives are boys and lads under the control of parents or guardians, and without ...