11 AUGUST 1866, page 2

An Official Report Has Been Published Upon The Mortality...

the troops in Hong Kong last year, and its verdict is sufficiently clear. The troops were not cantoned, but hutted, and so they get fever and died, as in the tropics under such......

The Extradition Rill Lies Passed With A "rider." It Is

to last only for one year, so that the discussion may be. renewed, and we may be able to see what France really does mean. It is possible to be over suspicions on the liberal as......

There Is A Story Going About And Attracting Some Attention,

which looks to us very like an invention. M. Charles Bernard has, it is said, invented a " light coat" which musket balls will not pierce. Ile wore it at the Tir National in......

This Letter Very Closely Resembles In Tone, Too Closely, One

on which we have commented elsewhere to Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen. That gentleman asked Mr. Gladstone's opinion of Sir E. Daring, who had voted for Lord Dunkellin's motion, but is......

The American " House Committee On Foreign Affairs " Has

recommended, and the House of Representatives has passed, a Bill relaxing the neutrelitsr lawn, abollehing in pautictilar the law which . requires the owners of waned 'fess*......

A Curious Hoax Has Been Played Off Upon The Scotch

papers. It has been reported for some days, falsely or truly, that a fleet of armed steamers, three, five, or eight according to taste, had made a rendezvous at the Faroe......

Sir John Pakington Made A Very Grave Statement On Saturday.

Mr. Graves asked him the names of the ships in the reserve at present available for service, and the First Lord replied, " My hon. friend will excuse me if I do not give him the......

Mr. Horsfall, Intending, We Presume, To Get Mr. Gladstone If

possible into a scrape, wrote to him on the 6th as a constituent to ask his opinion of the Reform. League and recent disturbances, to which queries 14r. Gladstone returned the......

The Registrar-general's Report On Cholera Is Not Very...

the week ending the 4th inst. 1,053 persons died in London of cholera and 354 of diarrhoea—which is only cholera modified. The virulence of the disease is still, however,......