... letter had been received stating that the matter would receive the attention of the board. Sir Stafford iMorthcote also, speaking the Commons, had stated that the Government contemplated introducing an amendment to the Friendly Societies Act itself, an ...

... cause of the Greeks an importance to which it is by means justly entitled. In that nebulous haze which many philanthropists speak of their mind, phil-Hellenism bulks largely. assumes such proportions as any obtrusive object may assume during fog, when ...

... Such a state of things would be a disgrace to Afghanistan. Are you going to bury the girl?— Sullivan: Now wait a bit till I speak to the jury about the little donkey.—Coroner: Silence, sir; you are worse than a brute.—Constable Rigney: You can see that ...

... knowledge ; and he thought classes for did er- ent branches of study might with advantage be formed m connection with it. Speaking on matters relating more particularly to the Church, he observed that the number of baptisms had largely increased during ...

... Cuff, and Mr. Thomaß Spurgeon took part in the opening ceremony. Mr. Chown, as president of the London Baptist Association, speaking on behalf of the 35,000 church members it comprises, offered their hearty congratulations to Mr. Spurgeon and the church ...

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... of Great Britain mean to olear themselves from com- plicity in the criminal conduct of Consuls Blunt and Fawcett they must speak, througb the press; and urge their representatives in Parliament to insist on fulfil- ment of the promise extorted by Mr. Samuelson ...

... love. These honest old words are antiquated, and it is almost as oontrary to good manners to mention them as it would be to speak of the commonest functions of nature. Fashion often disguises what it has to Bay in this respect under synonyms derived from ...

... quite at vpriance with Mr. Gladstone, who contributes the closing paper. Few will doubt which of the two is best qualified to speak on the ques- j tion. Mr. Matthew Arnold contributes a sonnet which—though perhaps a little too personal not to say trivial ...

... is talked about as a fitting residence for H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, if the national present is to be embodied, so to speak, in land and . architecture. It is in Connaught, of course, and therefore appropriate. It affords capital cock- shooting, with ...

... eagerly and at once annihilated by tbe feverish inrush of capital, at present famished for want of employ- ment, and, so to speak, frozen out. The truth is, that the panic-fear of foreign competition, whether well or ill founded, is excited and kept up ...

... that the prayers of a wicked people were abomination. Any clergyman of the Church of England in these days who ventured to speak as plainly as Isaiah did would be said either to be preaching politics or to be saying a good many things which were extremely ...