16 APRIL 1870, page 1

Rutterford, The Norfolk Murderer, Who Stuffed A Dying...

with mud, has been reprieved, a huge burn having so swollen his neck that hanging would have produced a horrible scene of torture. The reprieve was unavoidable, but it is one......

The Finance Of The Past Year Thus Arranged, Mr. Lowe

turns to the future. Ile expects that the revenue for 1870-71 will be :— The finance of the past year thus arranged, Mr. Lowe turns to the future. Ile expects that the revenue......

News Of The Week.

T HINGS are in a snarl in Paris. 111. 011ivier, it appears, failed to carry his Cabinet with him in his defence of plebiscites, and Count Daru and M. Buffet at last offered the......

Mr. Lowe Introduced His Budget On Monday, In A Dull

and tedious, but lucid speech. He showed that, owing to the economy of Government, to the recovery of elasticity in the revenue—a recovery which exceeds £2,000,000, and is......

Note, That The Terms Of The Plebiscite Will Be Fixed

by a pro- clamation to be drawn up by the Emperor alone, and that he may arrange the question as he pleases. M. 011ivier may protest, but his resignation at the eleventh hour......

All This While The Sub-agitation In France Increases, And A

project is on foot for a general strike of workmen throughout the Empire. It will probably fail, as the workmen have no Poor- law to fall back on ; but the workmen at Creuzot......

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Lopez Has Fallen. General Camara, At The Head Of A

few hundred Brazilians, overtook him and about as many Paraguayans on the Aquidaban, in Matto Grosso, on 1st March. The Paraguayans were defeated, and Lopez summoned to......