... A CASE FOR PLAIN SPEAKING. \\vdo not pretend to be reassured by the denials telegraphed from seraous quarters this morning of the alleged negotiations between G;crmany and Portugal with regard to Delagoa Bay. The extreme lromptitude of the ever-ready ...

... known either Mrs. Adkins or her boy to be punished; certainly the child had never been punished for speaking to his mother-in fact, she had never seen him speak to her at all. As a proof of her own humanity, Mrs. Wilson mentioned that when on a certain day ...

... of his throat, to speak m(nre than a few Nvords at a time in a whisper. There was not the ordinary question whether he was mute of malice or by the visitation of God; the point was that since his arrest he had not been able to speak sutficiently to state ...

... Charles D)ilkc, the Co.: servative leader has really no effective oratorical support. Sir R. Cross has rarely attempted to speak ; and his appearances in the present IParlia. ment lead to an awkward dilemma ; either he does himself grave injustice or there ...

... he remembered Lord Field disrobing to that extent. The Danily NXews remarks that wigs form no part whatever, technically speaking, of the costume of the Beuch or Bar. In, former times judges and serjeants-at-laW wore the coif, which, in its original state ...

... According to a friend Emin now speaks, counting African dialects, no less than tsventy-seven different tongues, and is certainly able to write and speak at least half a dozen European languages with as great ease and fluency as he speaks his native German. A LEAGUE ...

... law, and the press observes a wise discretion in frequently passing them over in decorous silence. But there are times to speak as well as times to be silent, and as judges in this country are amenable chiefly to public opinion, it is well that that opinion ...

... necessary to speak at short distances it is not necessary to come close to the instrument. For conimmnications in the same street, or the same house, the operator places the upper part near himself, and without changing his position he can speak with the ...

... n in convicting these people merely because a constable saw them speak to some one. It certainly was not according to justice or 'fairness that a person should be convicted for speaking to somne one, the words not being heard. But apart from this, prisoner ...

... the Mid-Wales Circuit. Some pressure is, it is'understood, to be brought on the Lord Chancellor to appoint a barrister who speaks the Welsh language. If Lord Halsbury yields to this, his area of selection necessarily becomes cihtum- scribed. Mr. B. Francis ...

... arms and- money in the district, and the plot to attack Sextol's house was forwsead after Leary had 1-ee to hear Mr. Dillon speak wben he denounced land-grabbers. Age described the assembling of the Moonlighters in a quarry a short -.gstsnce from Leary's ...

... remarkable. A voice of great charm and softness, an intense but subdued earnestness, and a perfect simplicity in htr style of speaking, such as only the most accomplished orators possess, would have won the sympathy of any audience. But the crowd which filled ...