14 JUNE 1879, page 2

Mr. Chamberlain Nearly Carried On Wednesday A Very Im-...

Bill. He believes that the working voters often cannot vote till evening without losing a day's wages, and proposed that the hours of polling should be extended from 8 a.m. to 8......

On Wednesday, Mr. Justice Mellor Took His Leave Of The

Bench and the Bar, after an unsullied judicial career of seven- teen years, in which his legal capacity was never impugned, and his character for patience, forbearance, and the......

The Government Is Losing Its Temper. There Is Some Reason

to fear that the British troops in Zululand, remembering that their comrades were all slain at Isandlana, and that many must have been slain when wounded, have occa- sionally......

The Prince Of Orange, Heir-apparent Of The Netherlands,...

Paris on June 11th. Many years ago this unhappy Prince quitted Holland, openly declaring that he detested his country and the prospect of reigning over it, and went to Paris,......

The Turks Appear To Be Incurable In Their Treatment Of

the Eastern Christians. A well-known correspondent of the Guardian declares that the Bulgarians in Turkish Roumelia are constantly beaten, and even murdered, by armed Turks,.......

Yesterday Week Also, The First Lord Of The Admiralty, Mr.

W. H. Smith, met at dinner at Bury St. Edmund's a number of the Con- servative landowners and politicians, amongst whom it was form- ally intimated that he is about to take up......

General Richard Strachey Has Addressed Another Letter To....

on the Indian famine taxes, in which he certainly shows that Sir John Strachey, Financial Member of Council, did not promise to form an Insurance Fund out of his new resources,......

Lord Granville Attended Yesterday Week A Meeting At...

assembled on the occasion of the unveiling of a com- pleted statue of Mr. Charles Pelham Villiers, the veteran Free- trader and veteran Member for Wolverhampton, which he has......