16 APRIL 1864, page 2

What A Pleasing Acquaintance The Mayor Of Carlisle Must Be

! What a charm it must lend to life in that dull town to have at its head a man in whose presence gravity is impossible ! The Mayor, Mr. Caleb Hodgson, has been asked, it......

The Danish Conference Has Been Postponed To The 20th Inst.,

but the German Diet has agreed to send a representative, and selected the Saxon Minister Herr Von Baud. The circle of States is therefore complete, and it appears probable that......

Mr. Lowe's Resignation Will Save Him From The Unpleasant...

of granting the papers for which Lord Robert Cecil is to move, concerning the dismissal of Mr. J. R. Morell from his inspectorship of Catholic schools under the Privy Council.......

A Trespass Bill Has Been Introduced Into Parliament For The

stricter preservation of game in Ireland, which will of course pass, as would a proposal making the killing of a fox high treason. The game preservers have, however, this week......

The Danish Minister Of Foreign Affairs Has Issued A Very

able circular on the proceedings of the Germans in Schleswig. The allies treat the Duchy, he said, as though there could never again be a question of restoring it to its......

The Government Of Bengal Has Done A Very Unwise Thing.

Some ten millions of people, living on the banks of the Ganges, have from time immemorial been in the habit of throwing their dead into the sacred river. They cannot afford to......

On Monday Night The Danish Subject Was Resumed In The

House of Lords, on occasion of a motion of Lord Campbell's, " drawn " in part by Lord Grey, that a firmer policy in demanding mediation as the means of settling the......

Yesterday Week Mr. Newdegate Raised A Purposeless Sort Of...

sonal quarrel in the House of Commons, by moving for a select com- mittee to inquire into the character and number of monastic institu- tions in England and Scotland. He based......

The Proprietors Of The Bradfield Reservoir Are Evidently...

in their generation. They are not going to resist the claims of the sufferers by the recent inundation, certainly not ; they are going to be liberal to the last degree, to pay......