10 DECEMBER 1881, page 1

The American Congress Met On The 4th Inst., And Ou

the 6t11 inst. received President Arthur's first Message. It is not very satisfactory. The President, though still undecided, swerves towards the Conkling party. He desires, he......

News Of The Week

T HE Londonderry election went favourably for the Liberals. After all Mr. O'Donnell's bluster, and the eager canvass of Mr. Dempsey, the Home-ruler, who retired at the last......

The Best News From Ireland This Week Is The Statement

of Mr. Justice Fitzgerald that in Munster, where agrarian crime has been so prevalent that, as he says, it threatens the existence of society, no farmers have been reported as......

We May Shortly Have A New Question With China. The

Chinese seem immovable, but when they move, they move with energy, as we saw in the Panthay country and Kashgar. Their last idea is that they may as well have the carrying trade......

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Vienna Was The Scene On Thursday Night Of A Horrible

calamity. While the Ring Theatre was filled with 2,000 people, a fire broke out ou the stage. The dancing-girls were seized with a panic, the officials whose duty it was to drop......

The American Union, According To The President, Is At Peace

with all the world, chiefly, we fear, because all the world is slightly afraid of the Union. Mr. Arthur insists, for instance, that the American Treaty with Columbia about the......