12 DECEMBER 1874, page 2

President Grant's Annual Message To Congress Was...

7th init. According to a very imperfect summary for- warded by cable, the President is hostile to Spain, stating that the " offences " of that country in the matters of the 4......

Mr. Gladstone Seems To Be Earning A Great Popularity Amongst

the Dissenters by his pamphlet on the Vatican decrees. The Nonconformist ministers of Launceston and its neighbourhood. have congratulated him on "the unanswerable logic and......

The President Of The Local Government Board, Mr. Mater-...

did not give much comfort to the deputation which visited him on Thursday to protest against turning the hospital at the foot of Hampstead Heath into a hospital for contagious......

The Wesleyan And Church Missionary Societies Question The...

the figures we quoted last week from the Edinburgh Daily Review, but the gentlemen who write on their behalf appear to miss our point. Dr. Boyce writes that the Wesleyans had......

The Latest Intelligence, From India Announces That The...

Afghanistan and his son Yakoob have come to a compromise. The history of their quarrel is confused, but it would appear that Yakoob, who is a man of unusual courage, after......

"vert-vert," An Opera Bouffe, Was Recently Placed On The...

of the St. James's Theatre ; the theatrical critic of Vanity Fair considered the piece stupid, the orchestra and singing bad, the ballet-girls incompetent, too much undressed,......

A Curious Trial, As To The Right Of An Incumbent

to refuse to administer the Communion to a parishioner who, in his opinion, had " depraved " the Book of Common Prayer, or " hindered " the Word of God, is to come before the......