A Book Is Coming Home From India Which Ought To
be of rare interest. It is a collection of reports by the leading Indian officers as to native opinion on the comparative merits of Native and British Governments in India. It......
M. Maurice Block, A Sound French Statist, Gives The...
as the real numbers of the armies maintained by the great military monarchies. The North Germans have 421,528 active soldiers, 298,113 reserves, and 95,000 reserves of the......
Many Of The Working-men Who Have Had,—thanks To The Great
philanthropy and incessant labour of Mr. Hodgson Pratt,—an opportunity of visiting the Paris Exhibition, met on Monday last in Cavendish Square Rooms to present him with an......
The American Surgeon-general Reports To The Minister At...
the precise number of white soldiers officially known to have been killed on the Northern side during the Civil War is 244,747, besides nearly 30,000 negroes. Moreover, 208,000......
Though We Are Far From Certain That The New French
Army Bill, painful as it is, does not really carry the assent of the great mass of the people, as it clearly did of the Deputies,—it is clear that there are districts in France......
It Is Stated On Good Authority That Prince Lucien Bonaparte,
Prelate of the Pope's Household, will be one of the next batch of Cardinals. The appointment will be made at the solicitation of the Emperor Napoleon, who has not forgotten that......
A Horrible Railway Accident, And One Of An Almost Unique
kind, is reported from America. On 18th December a railway train running from Buffalo to Cleveland, Ohio, passed over a broken rail. Two cars were thrown off the track, the......
Will Some One Of Our Irish Correspondents Send Us The
actual facts, as shown by the old experiments, about the capacity of Ire- land to grow tobacco? The cultivation is prohibited, but if the plant can be made to grow over any......
The Bishop Of Kerry, Dr. Moriarty, Has Declined To Allow
requiem masses and other solemn services to be celebrated for the three executed Fenians in Kerry Cathedral. It was not, he said, in his address on the subject, that he objected......
Stansfeld Has Also Declared Himself For Compulsory Educa-...
a speech at Halifax, and this in a way that shows him to have made up his mind anxiously but definitively upon it. lie justly observed that "conscientious conviction" usually......
The Statement Of The Panama Star That Lopez Has Accepted
terms of peace is unfounded. According to the latest intelligence, Paraguay fights on, and Humaita has not fallen, facts we recom- mend to the consideration of people who......
Mr. Forster Made A Very Able Speech On Education At
St. James's Hall on Tuesday night. He declared himself for State interference to enact "ignorance laws" against the st:uvation of the mind, analogous to our "poor laws" against......
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