16 JUNE 1877, page 2

There Was A Debate Yesterday Week, Raised, As Usual, By

Mr. P. A. Taylor, on the old question of opening museums, exhibitions of pictures, and other places of instruction and amusement on Sundays, when the Secretary to the Treasury,......

On Tuesday Sir Eardley Wilmot Raised A Somewhat Poor And

certainly very unsatisfactory discussion in the House of Commons on capital punishment, by moving a resolution that "it is de- sirable to consider - whether the laws under which......

The Committee Of Wesleyans Appointed To Arrange The...

lay representation in Conference have agreed without dis- cussion that the numbers should be esual, 240 laymen and 246 ministers constituting the governing body. It has also......

Mr. Bright's Speech Was, Of Course, Eloquent, Especially...

ating incidents of occasional inequality and horror in the execu- tion of the law,—but his only strong argument was this,—that if experience does not show that the abolition of......

The Turks Appear To Have Devised A Tolerably Effective Pro-

tection for the monitors in the Danube against the torpedo-boats which were so successful on their first attack. On Saturday night, some Russian launches in the Kilia month of......

The Paris Correspondent Of The Times Reported In...

a rather important interview between Marshal MacMahon and some Legitimist delegates, who waited upon him to find out whethertheabsenceof any Legitimista from his new Cabinet......

At The Royal United Service Institution Yesterday Week,...

read a paper on "Modern War Fleets," in which he made some interesting remarks on the appliances for destroy- ing the enemy's ships without the use of what are technically......

M. Gambetta Made A Speech At Abbeville On The 10th

inst., which contained one important statement. He has no desire to see the agitation among Liberals directed against the Senate. "I have always said I believe it to be......