13 JANUARY 1872, page 1

The French Elections Have Ended In A Great Victory For

the Government. In Paris, although half the electors abstained, M. Vautrain, the moderate Radical, supported by M. Thiers, has been returned by a majority of 27,000, while in......

News Of The Week.

T HE event of the week has been a speech from Lord Derby to the Conservative Working-men of Liverpool. We have analyzed it elsewhere, but must observe here that it is understood......

Unfortunately For Him, Sir John Pakington Had To Address A

'body of Conservatives at Rochdale the day after Lord Derby's able speech. Consequently, it reads very tame, and, according to the Times, very dismal. It was an after-dinner......

An Irish Journal States That Mr. Serjeant Dowse, Hitherto...

for Ireland, has been appointed Attorney-General —which, if it be authentic, must be due of course to the resig- nation of the late Attorney-General, Mr. Serjeant Barry, who has......

James Fisk, Of New York, The Dictator Of The Erie

Railway, y r - was assassinated on Sunday by E. Stokes, a Wall-Street dealer, and Erie Stock consequently rose in London 3 per cent. Accord- ing to the American papers, a......

The Scene In The French Assembly To Which We Make

allusion elsewhere, arose on Saturday during the pro forma' business of reading a report from the Committee on Petitions. The reporter, M. Lorgeril, a Legitimist, used the......

The Marquis Of Hartington Made A Speech To His Constituents

at Radnor last week, the most important part of which—his declara- tion in relation to Irish Education—we have considered amply elsewhere. He made, however, some declarations as......

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