15 NOVEMBER 1873, page 1

Since We Reported Last Week The Seizure By The Cuban

Govern- Ment of the American blockade-runner, the Virginius, with 165 smile on board, it has turned out that the ship is at least priraii facie an American ship, that there was......

The Mansion-house Dinner To The Ministry Came Off On Monday,

the 9th falling on Sunday, and a great number of Ministers attended. All, however, with one accord exerted them- selves strenuously to say nothing,—and all succeeded. Mr. Glad-......

The Government, As We Think, Has Not Acted Fairly Towards

Mr. Monsell ; but at all events, it has replaced him by perhaps the best ally it could find, and certainly one of the very strongest men in the House of Commons,—Dr. Lyon......

News Of The Week.

THE state of affairs in France is bad. The Left Centre have deserted the Liberals, have accepted a proposal that Marshal MacMahon shall reign till the sixth year after the......

The Want Of Pith In The Left Centre Was Conclusively

shown in the debate on M. Leon Say's interpellation about vacant seats. M. de Broglie only proposed its postponement till the prolonga- tion of powers had been settled, and M.......

The Foreign Office Seems To Be In Another Scrape. The

Turks, who have been pushing their conquests in Arabia very fast for the last two years, are now attacking Lahej, a city thirty-eight miles north of Aden, surrounded by an oasis......

The Latest News About The Bengal Famine Is Not Reassuring.

The Times' correspondent states that prices are rising and the new crop being sent to market, while thousands of labourers are already employed upon the relief works. He says......

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