13 JANUARY 1872, page 2

The Generals Commanding The Looshai Expedition Seem To Be In

a perplexity of a somewhat novel character. General Bourchier telegraphs on January 4, from some place not stated, that he had entered the hills, that they are very precipitous,......

If The Member For Great Grimsby Does Not Take Care

he will be called" Silvery Tomline," for he never writes about anything else. His last effort has been to send two worn sixpences to the Master of the Mint, and ask what he......

The Employers Of Labour Appear To Have Been Frightened By

the rapid success of the nine-hours' movement into a somewhat serious resolution. A meeting, attended by masters from all parts of England and Scotland, and employing more than......

The Annual National Congress Of Trades' Unions And...

has been held this week at Nottingham, where it opened its sittings on Monday. Among its voluminous proceed- ings, one of the most important was the consideration it gave to the......

The Russian Government Has Published Two Further...

Official Gazette, in which, while declaring that the policy of Alexander II. is a policy of peace, it recapitulates its grievances against Austria, professes friendship for all......

At A Meeting Of The Congress On Thursday, Mr. Mundella,

after a speech against the Truck system in the mining districts, where a man who protests against it cannot get work, called the atten- tion of the artizans to a very bad though......

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......

The Trial Of The Rev. John Selby Watson, Formerly Head

Master of the Stockwell Grammar School, for the murder of his wife on Sunday, the 8th October last, took place on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The facts of the case, the......