A Short And Somewhat Disappointing Debate Occurred On...
on the business of the House of Commons. Mr. Gladstone moved for a Committee in succession to the Committee of last year, but Mr. Disraeli opposed, on the ground that ample......
The Lancet Retaliates On Our Article Of Last Week In
a very characteristic manner by attributing our view to the " sad excuse of a disordered mind." That may, perhaps, be a joke ; but for anything its very weak articles on this......
We Thought Dutchmen Understood Colonies, But It Seems...
is confined to the Dutch Government. In the early clays, when we liked foreign possessions, the British Government coerced that of Holland into a Treaty limiting Dutch......
The Times Of Thursday Publishes A Letter From The Cape
-diamond fields, which is in its way a curiosity. Englishmen and Americans have, except in India, not too much respect for the rights of " natives," but a plebiscite forbidding......
The Prince Of Wales Has Published A Letter, Dated August
26, 1871, but only just received from Sir S. Baker. He had been 175 days taking his fleet and soldiers from Khartoum to Gondokoro, -a distance of 700 miles, the difficulties of......
The Licensing Bill Is Not To Come On Till The
Ballot and Educa- tion Bills have been disposed of ; but the Home Secretary stated on Wednesday his hope that it would be found as effective and as stringent in its provisions......
M. Elisee Reclus, The Distinguished French Physical...
we have so often spoken, and on whose behalf so many English men of science have petitioned the French Government, has had his sentence commuted to simple banishment.......
On One Point Of Detail, Which Has No Bearing On
the sanity or insanity of Miss Edmunds, we are glad to be corrected in relation to a mistake made two or three weeks ago. We had hastily inferred that Miss Edmunds' assertion......
Lord Lawrence Has Resigned His Post Of Chairman To The
London School Board, and though he was persuaded to withdraw his resignation till after he had tried the effect of rest and travel, it is but too probable that his great......
The Government Has Divided The Ballot Bill Into Two. The
first is a Bill to secure secret voting on the plan of last year, without alterations ; and the second is to provide against bribery, treating, personation, and other offences.......
Mr. Cowan, A Deputy Commissioner In The Loodiana...
suppressed the Kooks revolt with great decision, unusual gallantry, and a total contempt for justice. Three hundred of the fanatics under Ram Singh attacked the petty fort of......
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