12 JANUARY 1867, page 2

Mr. Dickens Is Doing Good Service To Book-buyers By Pressing

the publishers to issue their books cut. They, of course, are unwilling, alleging that the majority of purchasers like to cut their own books, an excuse we do not believe.......

The Latest Accounts From Mexico Report That The Clerical...

alarmed at the danger of massacre, have entreated Maximilian to remain, and promised him 5,000,000/. sterling. He has, there- fore, returned to his capital, but it appears, from......

Mr. Ravenshaw, Commissioner Of Orissa, Has, It Is Said, Sent

home a report on the famine, which will, we trust, be published, which admits the deaths of 600,000 before July last, and states that in many places three-fourths of the......

The New York Correspondent Of The Daily News, Perhaps The

best observer of American politics whose criticisms are published in England, expresses his belief, in a very interesting letter published this day week, that the woman suffrage......

The Address For Signing Which Marshal Narvaez Arrested S....

Roses and deported his colleagues has reached England. It is most respectfully worded, and the pith of it is contained in the following sentence :—" The power which the Cortes......

The Prussian Parliament Is Likely, It Is Said, To Come

to logger- heads with the German Parliament. It appears that all powers bestowed upon the latter are to be withdrawn from the former, but under novel restrictions. For example,......

The Metropolitan Municipal Association Waited On The Home...

Tuesday, to press their plan of exchanging the forty or fifty jurisdictions in London for eleven municipalities of the ordinary type, with power to control the police, govern......

At A Meeting Of The St. Pancras Board Of Works

on Tuesday a vote was passed granting 1,000/. to the surveyor for clearing away the snow, which it appears was done, though slowly, the snow being taken from the streets into......

. The Emperor Of Austria, Forgetting Apparently That He Had

just promised to respect the Hungarian Conslitution, has issued a patent establishing a new organic law of recruiting for the whole empire: Under its provisions every man......

We Trust The Project Attributed To The Reform League Of

hold- Mg a mass meeting in front of Westminster Hall, under colour of presenting petitions, will be abandoned. The design is, we imagine, illegal, and will only rouse the temper......

Mr. Lowe Will Have It That His Remarks About The

venality and drunkenness of the lower classes referred to the lower classes in the existing constituency. The greengrocers, he thinks, are not for- midable, while the artisans......

The Russian Government Has At Last Made An End Officially

of Poland. By three decrees dated 19th December (O. S.) the Czar merges Poland in Russia, destroys her separate financial and postal administration, and redivides her into five......