... LABOURER SPEAKS OUT. Sir, —Your correspondent Greenockian has odd way of stating his cast. He want* help for the idle men, and the joiners in particular, but the way he takes get it is by probing the Provost, running down the ministers and upper-classes ...

... MR HALDANE SPEAKS OUT. After the English Education Bill, and the lough straggle into which it may involve the two Houses of Parliament, there is subject much the public mind to-day us the condition of the British Army, its power of rapid mobilisation ...

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... CENSOR SPEAKS HIS MIND. Bedford, the censor of stage plays, giving evidence before the Joint Committee Censorship at Westminster yesterday, said his mo—age forbidding the skit on “An Englishman’s Home” should not have been published. In the case of that ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING FROM THE PULPIT. We select the following passages (which do not mince the matter), from sermon entitled “The Judgment of the Merchant City,” delivered by the Rev. Robert T. Jeffrey, M.D., in the Caledonian Road Church, Glasgow, on Sunday ...

... THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. A writer in recent number of the Atlantic Monthly predict! that by the end of the twentieth century the EnglUh language will be epnken by 800,000,000 people occupying, beaides England proper and its contiguous ...

... GENERAL GRANT PUBLIC SPEAKING. Speaking at Friday’s ceremony at the Guildhall, in reply the toast of his health, General Grant said —My Lord Mayor, ladies, and gentlemen,—Habits, formed in early life and early education are apt to press themselves upon ...

... THE CARTERS WILL SPEAK AND SING. SABBATH, AFTERNOON, OUR NAPPY CARTER BAND. ...

... MR BALFOUR STILL SPEAKING. Last night the city of Edinburgh found Mr A. J. Balfour still on his feet speaking and spinning sentences in a way that even Mr Gladstone himself might have envied. The Chief Secretary appears to lay great store on the Conservative ...

... A MERCHANT SPEAKING OUT. At a dinner given to Provost Guthrie in Brechin, on Monday last, which Lord Panmure presided, Mr John Don, merchant, Dundee, in replying to the toast of ‘'manufacturing interests of the county” proposed the Earl of Southesk, made ...

... SPEAKS OP YANKEE JOURNALISM. Lord Charles re-lord arrived at Liverpool to-day from America, where has been attending to some business in connection with his late brother’s affairs. Lord Charles stated in interview that he should join his ship, the King ...

... A VOLUNTEER INSPECTOR SPEAKING HIS The City of London, or Ancient Order of Foresters, Riflemen, were reviewed on Saturday night by the deputy-inBi*ector, Colonel Moms, on the parade-ground of the Tower of London. The men mustered few, and those few went ...