... The meeting of women on Thursday in behalf of Women's Suffrage was marked by several striking characteristics. The speaking was extremely good, which was perhaps not surprising, and the speeches were short, which to the scoffer at women's tongues and ...

... Civil dudgeon runs high in Dublin just now, and the cause of the quarrel is bridge. The great Achilles speaks of the bridges of war, and the term which lloilEU's hero uses might very well be applied to the erection which the Dublin Ports and Docks Board ...

... OMETHING NEW Vet we speak article daily consumption— Tea. This is not new, but our method of ottering it to tlio public I.S Immediately the Teas arrive in this country, selection the very finest sorts made, arid certain popular flare urs arc produced ...

... In the article on Russia and England which closes the forthcoming number the Nineteenth Century, Mr. Gladstone speaks ol the plot at the Winter Palace, of which the news reached him while was writing. While denouncing indignantly this stupendous crime ...

... the other hand Lord llenry Lennox, speaking at Chichester, tried to be little bold and original. He succeeded in being at least odd, and occasionally paradoxical. Undertaking to explain the causes of the Conservative defeat at the late elections he declared ...

... It has been announced that Mr. Herbert Gladstone is expected to speak at Stamford oil Monday next. We learn that there is no truth in this statement. The Queen is expected leave Windsor Friday next for Balmoral. Princess Beatrice, the Grand Duke of Hesse ...

... Ripon, speaking last night at the annual soiree of the Halifax Mechanics' Institution, took occasion to dwell upon the change that the national system of education ia likely to make in the work of such associations. The elementary instruction which they ...

... AND OTHER HIGH-CLASS VINTAGE CLARETS. There nothing tbat people speak more often about (says the Times ) than Bordeaux Wine, and yet nothing, perhaps, about which people are more ignorant. In the Upper Mfcdoc there are three Vineyards beyond criticism ...

... Mr. Childers at Pontefact.—Speaking at Pontefract on Saturday support of llie Liberal candidates for the Eastern division of West Hiding of Yorkshire, Mr. Childers ascribed the Liberal defeat to the want heart, their principles shown the party. Referring ...

... Mr. Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham last night, drew attention to one the inconvenient results of the Government'* very natural reluctance to meet the country at a general election. It is only one of many results, but is well worthy of serious co ...

... Mr. Brassey, M.P., speaking at Liverpool last sight to the naval volunteers, said that in London as I well Liverpool it was possible to get together a lumber ot naval artillery volunteers without any capilation grant, but there was a difficulty in increasing ...

... Sir William Harcourt, speaking at the annual dinner of the Oxford Liberal Association Inst evening, made a sort of apology for haviug nothing new or entertaining to tell you to-night. was perfectly prepared, he added, to hear that I say nothing ...