12 OCTOBER 1861, page 1

The Imperial Government Is Embarrassed By The Price Of Bread

in the great cities. The harvest being a bad one, bread has risen to about twenty sous the loaf, and the people cannot afford to pay more than sixteen. Accordingly, they......

Several Educational Speeches Have Also Been Delivered,...

Revised Code issued by the Committee, which seems to have excited the clergy to a very unusual degree. Archdeacon Denison, in particular, denounced it violently, and made an......

Earl Russell Has Replied To The Address Of The Mexican

Bond- holders, declining to intervene in the Government of Mexico, but promising to enforce respect for British lives and property, and the " fulfilment of recorded......

News Of The Week.

COME nineteen speeches have been reported this week, all uttered by men more or less distinguished, all sensible, all instructive, and almost all very tedious to read. An order......

That Modern Version Of Venus Cloaeina, Mr. Thwaites,...

the drainage of London shall be completed in two years. One- third is already done.......

The Red Sea Telegraph Is Not Wholly Lost. Sir Macdonald

Stephen- son offers, if all the concessions are made over to a new company which he represents, to repair the communication for 48,0001. with- out a guarantee. As Sir Macdonald......

The Papers Still Reek With Details Of Crime. Murders,...

and outrages on women are reported in such numbers that even cau- tious observers begin to believe that their frequency shows a dis- ordered state of the public mind. With......

Mr. Smith O'brien Has Published A Letter To A Countryman

in Paris, full of the extraordinary mixture of accurate fact and prepos- terous deduction which Irishmen think patriotism. He has been residing in Hungary, and bears strong......