16 MARCH 1872, page 2

Mr. Salt Introduced His Public Worship Facilities' Bill...

nesday, and carried it through a second reading by a majority of 29. Its purpose is to give, in Mr. Salt's words, " greater elasticity to our ecclesiastical system," to enable......

It Appears To Be Believed In Italy As Well As

in England that matters are going very badly in Spain. Indeed, the departure, or rather expulsion, of King Arnadeo is looked upon as certain, and intrigues are on foot for......

The French Government Has Evidently Determined To Take...

against the International. M. Dufaure asserts that the Society is carrying on a propagandist war against property and society ; that it scatters its publications in thousands;......

Mr. M'lagan Is Pushing A Very Clever Bill Very Easily

through Parliament. It declares that whenever applied to, as in cases of suspicious death, the Coroner shall have power to hold an inquest on the cause of any fire, as he would......

In Short, Mr. Gladstone's Construction Of The Act Is Quite

as admissible as Lord Salisbury's, and as it appears that he did actually offer the living to two members of the Oxford Convoca- cation before offering it to Mr. Harvey,—so......

We Have Endeavoured Elsewhere To Diminish The Absurd...

ascribed by the correspondents of most English papers to the " rows" in the French Assembly. There have been two in the last ten days, one caused by an epigram against M.......

Lord Salisbury Made A Good, But Useless Speech On Friday

week about Cape affairs. We are governing the South African colonies on a bad system, they being Crown colonies, yet ruled by elected Legislatures which cannot remove the......

The Ewelme Rectory Debate, —which Did Not Go To A

divi- sion,—came off on the evening of yesterday week too late for our last impression. Mr. Gladstone made, on the whole, a very successful defence of his appointment, arguing......

The Upper House Of The Prussian Diet Has Accepted Prince

Bismarck's School Inspectors' Bill by an unexpectedly large majority (49), in a house of 201 members. The Prince, in his able speech, laid great emphasis on the King's......

The Shareholders Of The Erie Railway Have Regained...

their property. Deprived of his colleague Fisk, Jay Gould could not keep his control of the concern, and on Monday the agents of the shareholders succeeded in coming to a......