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News from 15/12/1883

1883; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Samuel Smiles, Frederic Harrison, George Howell,

Frontmatter: The Pioneer. Editorial: We Trust That the Great Meeting Held at the Albert Hall on Sunday in Support of "Early Closing" Will Not Be without Even an Immediate Effect, Free Public Libraries, We Believe It Is Now Almost an Open Secret That "Training-Ships," so Far as Their Ostensible Purpose Is Concerned, Have Proved to Be a Failure, "Prevention Better than Cure". Letter to the editor: Correspondence London Rookeries, State Directed Colonisation. News: Free Libraries, Mr. Giffen, in the Address He Recently Delivered to the Statistical Society, Points out That during the Last Half-Century There Has Been "An Enormous Apparent Rise in Wages, Ranging from 33 to 85 Per Cent", Lord Lorne's Interesting and Able Address to the Colonial Institute the Other Evening Seems to Have Owed Not a Little of Its Value to His Reading as an Historical Student, as Well as to His Experience as Governor-General of Canada, A Knowledge of Political History Is Not Always One of the Qualifications of Our Modern Political Critics, Melton Mowbray, It Seems Pretty Clear, from All That Has Been Said and Written in the Discussion Started by Lord Salisbury on the Rookeries and Slums of London, That the Law as It Stands, If It Were Rigidly and Systematically Put in Force, Would Be Found Amply Sufficient to Suppress the Graver Evils of Which Complaint Is Made, The Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers, News of the Week, Building Societies, Unfortunately, as Mr. Chamberlain Observes in His Paper in the Fortnightly Review, the Authorities Who Are Primarily Responsible for Putting the Sanitary and Improvement Acts in Operation Are in London the Vestries; and "The Vastries, Often in the Hands Oc Cliques, and Chosen at Elections Which Excite No Public Interest, and Largely Composed of Small House-Property Owners Who Cannot Be Expected to Be Enthusiastic in Putting the Law in the Force against Themsleves", To Our Readers, At Length There Is a Prospect of the Fibre of the Rheea Plant Being Made Available for the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics, What Lord Lorne Had to Say about the Protective Tariffs of Our American and Australian Colonies Will Not, We Suspect, Be Regarded with Such General and Cheerful Acquiescence in This Country, Work and Wages, Co-Operation, Railway Travelling under Existing Conditions Reached Its Limit of Safe Speed Years Ago, and It Must Be Admitted That Sixty Miles an Hour Leaves Little to Complain of, so Far as Passengers Are Concerned, An Instructive Little Scene Occurred at the Trial of Some of the Servants of the Army and Navy Co-Operative Stores for Embezzlement at the Old Bailey a Few Days Ago, Seizure of Arms in Dublin, It Is Generally Assumed That There Will Be a Dissolution Next Session, Springing out of the Reform Controversies, Latest Intelligence The Cotton Strike, The Wholesale Society's Quarterly Meetings, The Co-Operative News Asks Why Mr. Giffen Has Chosen as His Point of Comparison the Worst Period of Our History as Regards Industrial Depression and Social Misery?, Occasional Notes, Now That the System of Boarding out Pauper Children Is Attracting Fresh Attention, It May Not Be Amiss to Recall One of the Earliest Experiments in That Direction, In the General Report on the Census of 1881, Which Has Just Been Issued by the Registrar-General, We Find Some Specially Interesting Information under the Head of "Occupations", The War in the Soudan, The San Francisco Cigar Makers' Union Is a Somewhat Singular Institution, Short Hours' Movement Sunday Demonstration at the Albert Hall, Somebody Writing on the Troubles of Ireland the Other Day, Recommended the Reintroduction of the Quern, or Hand Corn-Mill, as a Means of Improving the Condition of the Peasantry by Enabling Them to Grind at Home the Corn Which It Was Affirmed They Would Prefer to Grow in Place of the Potato, Questions and Answers, There Is No Doubt That the Revision of the American Tariff, Which Came into Force Last Summer, Has Disappointed the Ironmasters on This Side of the Atlantic, The Cotton Strike, Miscellaneous News, Boiler Explosions Are, Happily, Much Rarer Occurrences in Proportion to the Steam-Power Employed than They Used to Be, Thanks to the Action of the Legislature and the System of Inspection Instituted by Boiler Insurance Associations, Technical Education, Notices under the Employers' Liability Act, Multiple News Items, Since It Was Suggested by the Daily News That Overcrowding in City Slums Can Never Be Satisfactorily Remedied till the Process of Rural Depopulation Is Stayed, Strenuous Efforts Have Been Made to Prove That the Two Evils Have No Connection with Each Other, Law, Now That Mr. Tennyson Is to Be Raised to the Peerage, the Heralds and Genealogists, as Usual, Have Set Themselves to Work to Illustrate and Adorn His Pedigree, Professor Huxley Was Able, the Other Night, after Presenting the Prizes and Certificates to the Successful Students at the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education, to Speak in Very Gratifying Terms of the Progress Which Was Being Made in the Way of Providing Means for Giving Instruction of Technical Subjects, The Post Office, Grip, the New Journal for Boys, Has Now Been before the Public Sufficiently Long to Enable One to Form an Opinion of Its General Merits, Friendly Societies, France and China Preparations for War at Canton, New Books and New Editions. Business: The Crisis in the Cotton Trade, Trade Unions, The Labour Market. Table of contents: Contents. Classified ads: Multiple Classified Advertisements. Display ads: Chapman & Halls Publications, Multiple Display Advertisements.