15 FEBRUARY 1873, page 3

Mr. Charles Reade Is A Great Deal Too Sensitive. He

recently pro- duced a drama called " Shilly Shelly," founded on Mr. Trollope's novel, "Ralph the Heir," and as there are vulgar people in it, he makes them use vulgar sayings.......

The Yankees Are Beginning To Fight Over The Geneva Spoil,

and General Butler appears to advise that what the United States counsel claimed as damages for individual ship -owners should now be admitted to be a good deal too much, and......

The Deceased Wife's Sister Is Not Going Up In The

world. In fact, she attracts altogether less interest than in former year!. Mr. Chambers carried the second reading of the Bill for legiti- mising a marriage with her on......

The Evidence Of The British Engineers On Board The Murillo,

Mr. Bethel and Mr. Goodeve, and of the English passenger, Mr. Bell, leaves no kind of doubt that the Murillo was the ship which sank the Northfieet. They all testify......

The Swiss Government Has Threatened Monseigneur Mermillod...

he resigns the office of Vicar- Apostolic over Geneva conferred upon him by the Pope. Geneva is evidently determined to have either a Catholic Church directed by the State, or......

It Is Evident That The Prosecutions Of The Priests And

the Bishop accused of intimidation in the Galway election will all fail. The strongest case was against Father Loftus, who used intimidating language if ever any man did, and......

After Mr. Bruce's Statement, Mr. Vernon Harcourt Let Off The

long-primed gun he had loaded for Mr. Ayrton's benefit. His speech was certainly clever, but inaccurate. He was safe while he kept to making fun of the Park rules, of which he......

The Gibraltar Chronicle Relates A Story Which Might Have...

a hint to Edgar Poe or Coleridge. The Dei Gratia, British ship, on 5th December, fell in with an American brigantine, the Mary Celeste, in lat. 38.20 N., and long. 17.15 W. The......

There Is A New Contribution To The Junius Controversy In

the shape of a lot of secondary evidence as to Mr. Pitt's belief. The Governor of the Mauritius, the Hon. Arthur Gordon, wrote to Sir John Shaw Lefevre on November 17, 1871,......

The Prussian Government Has Replied To The Memorial Of The

Roman Catholic Bishops against the new measures, which we noticed last week, in a very stern and decisive tone, through the semi-official Provincial Correspondenz. In effect,......

Consols Were On Friday 921 To 92+.

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