16 MAY 1868, page 1

The Trial Of President Johnson Ends To-day, When The Senate

will deliver its final verdict and sentence. It was expected to deliver them on Tuesday last, but the Court is, above all things, anxious to avoid any appearance of hurry or......

The Reply Of Her Majesty To The Address Of The

House of Commons praying that she would place the temporalities of the Irish Church at the disposal of Parliament was delivered on Tuesday night through the Comptroller of the......

The Address Of The Irish Bishops Was Preseuted To The

Queen at Windsor on Thursday, by the two Archbishops and nine of their suffragans, aided by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, and one or two more of......

Mr. Disraeli Loses No Opportunity Of Affirming That All His

efforts are directed to make an early dissolution feasible. The question is, therefore, debated whether the new constituencies can be elected before 1869. It is quite certain......

Lord Brougham Died, Apparently In His Sleep, At Cannes On

Thursday, the 8th inst. We have endeavoured elsewhere to sum up the force and feebleness of his public character, and have succeeded in disinterring from one of the scarcest of......

News Of The Week.

T HE week has been comparatively a dull one. The Boundary dis- pute, which was expected to be so serious that the Government might dissolve on it, was averted by a compromise,......

The Emperor Of The French Has Made His Speech At

Orleans, . —and said nothing. He told the Mayor that the progress of his city " might be developed with confidence in the midst of the general tranquillity of Europe,"—but that......

Her Majesty's Reply Did Not, We Fear, Greatly Console The

Irish Bishops. It is kindly, and avoids all reference to recent pro- ceedings ; but it does not imply in any degree, as the Bishops probably hoped, that the Queen is prepared to......

The Second Reading Of The Suspensory Bill Is Fixed For

Friday, the 22nd, when the exhausted debate will, we may presume, begin afresh. The Tory object is to gain time, and as nobody ever convinces an opponent on ecclesiastical......