11 APRIL 1868, page 2

Mr. Darby Griffith Elicited An Amusing Reply From Mr....

by asking him, before the debate yesterday week, whether he in- tended to advise the Crown to confer a title of dignity on one of the Members for Thetford, and whether that......

And Partly Also, No Doubt, To The Apparently Rapid Increase

in the numbers of the class who attend the Universities, and who, therefore, interest their friends and connections in the great match of the year. The Times says that the......

Professor Brewer Of King's College Sends To The Times Of

Fri- day a letter in favour of the Irish Church which strikes us as ex- ceedingly fallacious and unworthy of his high reputation. The real gist of the letter is that a State......

Sir Colman O'loghlen, Mr. Monsell, And Mr. Shaw Lefevre Have

brought in a singular Bill. It provides that no new Peers of Ireland shall be created, that representative Peers shall be elected for each session instead of for life, that......

The Lord-lieutenant Of Ireland Has Advised The...

not to illuminate on the occasion' of the Prince of Wales's visit. Lord Abercorn probably fears some political demonstration, but surely the true policy on such occasions is to......

It Is Stated That The Irish Tories Are Much Divided

on the sub- ject of the Irish Church. They dread Mr. Disraeli's scheme, which would, they say, endow Catholicism with 400,0001. a year, and think Mr. Gladstone's offer to leave......

The India House Published On Friday A Telegram Despatched...

Alexandria on the 6th inst. In it Sir Robert Napier informs Sir S. Northcote that he reached Lat on the 21st of March, that he expects to arrive before Magdala on the 2nd of......

On Monday Night Mr. Fawcett, M.p. For Brighton, Delivered An

address at a church in Blackfriars Road in favour of women's suffrage,—of giving women general political power. We assent to much that Mr. Fawcett said as to the deplorable......

The Oxford And Cambridge Boat Race, This Day Week,...

in what is now the usual way,—Oxford winning,—by three or four lengths. It is said that neither crew was up to their average standard of merit, though the race was rowed in the......

The Standard Is In A State Of Such Deplorable Confusion

of mind at the division of yesterday week, that it unsays one day what it said the day before, and that in the most explicit terms. On Monday our contemporary was sanguine :—"......

There Has Been An Almost Total Absence Of News From

the Con- tinent this week. The only interesting though most sad fact is the sudden failure of M. Eugene Forcade's intellect, owing to overwork and excitement ; and the only......