... SHALL OUR LOAVES BE DEARERf AN AUTHORITY SAYS NO ! A meeting was held at Kennington on Wednesday, by a number of master bakers, to consult as to the advisability of raising the pricejof bread.MThe reason for this action is, so it was stated, that in view of the reduced number of hours of labour the masters are no longer able to make the same amount of bread in a given time, and consequently ...

... A CHAT WITH MR. B. WAUGH. ?? is going to run down the baby fare in Battersea? This question was asked of the Rev. Benjamin Waugn at the Society for the Prevention ot Cruelty to Children yestetday, 'There will never be any stopping of baby farming so long as the present Acts of Parliamrient exist. The rolice have no power to stop it, and do not knoW what powers they themselves possess. During ...

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... THE A GE OF AD VER TISEMEENT. WihEN1 Lord SALISBURY'S history according to periods comes to be written, an interesting chapter will have to be devoted to the Age of Advertisement, This is a subject on which Lord SALISBURY'S friend, Sir ALGERNON BORTHWICK, will probably have some. thing to say to-night, when he presides at the BARRATT banquet Mr. BARRATT is the managing director of PEARS' ...

... B l-bMETALLtSM, FREE TRAME, AND DEMOCRACVa BY M. EMILE DrE LAVELEYE, AT the recent Monetary Congress in Paris Mr. Grenfell, one of the directors of the Bank of England, read a letter from Mr. Gladstone, in which the latter declared that, to his mind, bimetallism was only Protection in disguise. This opinion of the illustrious statesman is due probably to the fact that he has frequently seen ...

... LITTLE notice is commonly taken of the outward form of our organ of hearing, and even artists do not give it much consideration as a rule; yet the formation and shape of the ear will amply repay those who give it close attention. Our modern portrait painters seldom go into minute detail over it. They seem content with a general outline and a rough touch here and there, showing the principal ...

... THE1 PUBLIC SCHOOL RECORD. WE now have pleasure in publishing some of the letters called forth by our Record. Others received this morming we are compelled to hold over, We append.to each letter such remarks as seem to be necessary ; A Correcicon from Meyckant Taylors'. SIR,-YOU will I am sure allow me to poist out an error in the account of the proportion of close to open scholarships ...

... FOU TH EDITION. A LETTER FROM MR. STANLEY. HIS TROUBLES WITH HIS SICK. FOUR DAYS' CONTINUOUS FIGHTING. AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY OF REAL VALUE. The Neuw YorleZferaed has received from Zanzibar the text of a letter to the British Consul from Mr. Stanley, dated German Station, Mpwapwa, 1 ith November, i889 ?? Sir,--We arrived here yesterday the fifty-fifth day from the Victoria Nyanza, and the ...

... If the Times be correctly informed the Ministerial programme for next session is to be far more modest than most people have imagined. The Tithes Bill for England and a Land Bill for Ireland will be the principal measures; and the latter, so far from being a big and final scheme, is only to be an extension of the. Ashbourne Act. The Times says We may assumne that the scope of the measure will ...

... Messrs. Wall Brothers have published a reply p the accusations of the London School Board, which may be said to amount to a denial, in wholesale and retail, of every charge made against them. It is like nothing so much as the rejoinder that was made by the accused knight who was appealing to wager of battle to clear his character from the accusations of his adversary:- Here standeth William of ...

... THE GOLFER A X ROME0 AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. HORACE G. HUTCHINSON. MRa. HORACE G, HUTCHINSON is probably the best known Englisb player of Scotland's royal and ancient game. For the first two years after its institution in tS86 he held the amateur champion- ship, and on most of the links of England and Scotland he is known as the winner of many a proud trophy. Since the establishment of the Royal ...

... LORD ROSEBERY yesterday made the first practical proposal which has been brought forward by the Imperial Federation League. He proposes to bring the question to the touch by the establishment of periodical Consultative Conferences of leading Colonists similar to that which was held during the Jubilee year. Here are the words in which he made his proposal:- I have always held that Imperial ...