13 MAY 1871, page 2

M. Thiers Has Prohibited A Meeting Of All Municipal...

at Bordeaux with threats of arrest. The meeting, which was to have been in the Commune, would, he feared, proclaim itself an Assembly, receive the adhesion of the cities, and......

We Recorded Last Week The Arrest Of Cluseret, Accused Of

treachery or corruption. He was succeeded by General Roesel, formerly an officer of Engineers, and later one of Gambetta's Generals, of whom great hopes were formed. He,......

Of Course The House Of Commons Will Reject This And

the other- kindred amendments, indeed it was hoped they might be struck out again on the third reading in the Lords, having been carried by so miserable a majority ; but this......

The Treaty Which Is To Arrange Our Difference With America

has really been signed, though not, of course, as yet ratified by the Senate of the United States or by the Queen. The Times received the text of all the Alabama part of it by......

Mr. Disraeli, In Illustrating The Evils Of...

society, referred to the effect of the disestablishment of Catholicism in France, and said that we now had the Arch- bishop of Paris in the dungeons of the Red Republic, while......

Mr. Disraeli's Speech Was, For Him, Unusually Laboured...

and its whole argument was compressed into the remark that nobody thought of disestablishing the State when the State had outgrown the nation, but rather of opening the State to......

The Lords Debated The Test Abolition Bill On Monday, When

Lord Salisbury carried the absurd new test which we criticized last week by a somewhat bare majority, five, the Archbishop of York (Dr. Thomson) and the Bishop of Manchester......

The Archbishop Of York Made A Bold Speech, Remarking That

if the most elaborate tests had not prevented infidelity from spreading widely in Oxford, the fragment of a test now proposed could hardly be expected to do so. Tests are not......

Dr. Fraser, The Bishop Of Manchester, Was Quite As Bold.

"He had no fear," he said, "for Christianity ; but he had the greatest fears for the interests of religion if it were subjected to. these objectionable testa." The Bishop of......

Colonel Anson Brought Up His Objection To The Army Bill

on. Monday night. He wants Government to pay the regulation value of a commission down, so as to give men who do not like- the new Government scheme of promotion the opportunity......

The Mistake About The Armistice Between Versailles And...

we mentioned last week was not the fault of the Manchester (uardian. Its correspondent telegraphed it as a rumour, and it was the correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette in......