15 JANUARY 1870, page 2

The Full Accounts Of The New Chinese Treaty Do Not

dispose us to regard it with more favour, and we doubt if it will be ratified. We have really got nothing from the Chinese except an exemp- tion from transit duties in nine......

The Times Irish Correspondent Says The Synod Of Down Connor

and Dromore, have agreed, after a division, to the following clause in their future organization :—" In case the Bishops dissent from the two orders with respect to any proposed......

The Accounts Of The Ravages Of The Bengal Fever In

the counties of Hooghly and Burti wan are dreadful. Those counties grow rice, and are full of sluggish streams, deep foul tanks, and water- covered rice-fields reeking with......

We Have Discussed Mr. Bright's Various Birmingham...

elsewhere, that here we will only add that his emphatic declaration as to the wish of the Government to show mercy to the Fenian prisoners if only they could do so without any......

But When Will That Be ? It Might Go On

for fifteen years, like the Council of Trent, at this rate, only that Bishops who live in the Arctic circle or Japan or even in Kamtschatka can hardly take a run home for a......

Why Is The Irish Correspondence Of The London Papers So

often a tissue of fables? We have ourselves been recently led into three somewhat serious errors by the minuteness of these fabulous inventions. First, there was the man (Mr.......

The Situation Is Very Curious In Austria. The Ministry Is

divided into two sections, the one German and centralizing, the other decentralizing and federal, and it is assumed in all the Vienna papers, and is apparently true, that the......

Our Roman Correspondent States That We Were Mistaken In...

that the Bishops in partibus itifidelium who have seatein the Roman Council are mainly missionary bishops ;—and no doubt we had overlooked the fact that there are amongst them a......

We Did Injustice To Mr. Martin, The Candidate For Longford,

in calling him a Fenian. He is a Nationalist, but not a destructive, respects his Church, and has always declared himself against violence and treason.......

The Tablet, Which Of Course Represents The Ultramontane...

the matter, asserts that the opposition to the dogma will not number 1 in 7 or 8, whilst not 1 in 100 will venture to oppose the dogma on its merits rather than on the question......