... ■ ; ?? :;y ov Coiimf.p.'-e. — Speaking al ■ * .•■ p of the Bradford Chamber of Commerc ■ mi. 1- . .nan! ...

... • ~ ~~ The Dean op Ripon and the Distress.—Speak- ing at the annual meeting of the Navvy Mission Society in Leeds yesterday, the Dean of Ripon alluded to the cessa- tion of railway enterprise in great works, and expressed the fear that the plentiful ...

... This week the town of Salzburg celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the death of Mozart. Chronologically speaking, the celebration is not strictly in order. Mozart did not die in the July but in the December of 1791, and, for that matter, he did not ...

... The Attorney - General at Mortlake. — Speaking at the opening of a new Conservative Club at Mortlake on Saturday night, Sir R. Webster, Q.C, M.P., claimed that the Government were the friends of the working classes. There was scarcely any matter in which ...

... It is always rash to speak with an assumption of certainty regarding a matter in reference to which an absolute and definite decision has not been actually reached, but the probabilities are so greatly in favour of the settlement within a few hours of ...

... The Home Secretary, speaking on the subject of ?? buildings recently erected at Stroud Vale for the labouring classes by the Victoria Dwellings Association (Limited) (Mr. John Walter, M.P., chairman^ said : — 'It is money which an association of this ...

... Speaking on Monday at the annual meeting of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, the President, Mr. Balloch, denied that there was a greater J want of employment in the shipbuilding ' industry than existed in it a year ago. J It is satisfactory to receive ...

... ments, not to speak of important scientific works, on all the tariffs reviewed by the committee. But do not gather that the committee has made any use of these authorities. It is also quite certain that no German official would for one moment accept the ...

... English Inns. — Fynes Moryson, in his Itinc- | rary, thus speaks of English inns : — As soone as ; a passenger comes to an inne, the servants run to him, i and one takes his horse and vvalkes him about till he be ' cool, then rubs him down, and gives ...

... It is unhappily scarcely necessary that, in speaking of the state and prospects of Ireland, we should recall the attention of our readers to the observations lately forced on ii* by some lamentable occurrences in that part of the United Kingdom, or that ...

... The Dike of Devonshire on Education. — Speaking at the opening of a free library in Shoreditch yesterday, the Duke of Devonshire said that we were making great sacrifices in the cause of popular national education. These sacrifices were quite justified ...

... Lord Onslow on* Protection. — The Earl of Onslow (Under Secretary for the Colonies), speaking at a meeting of the Liberal Unionists in Tolmers-square Insti- tute, Hampstead-road, last night, said that he aid not deny that there was a strong, and he believed ...