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There Is One Very Gross Defect In This Bit Of

panic legislation. It does not even leave open the possibility of any further study of the disease and its treatment. It is imperative on the local authorities to order the......

M. Desk's Address In Reply To The Speech From 'the

throne was laid before the Hungarian Diet on the 8th inst. It is polite, but very decided, a single idea being repeated in almost every sentence, thst Hungary is willing to come......

M. Rouher Has Explained In The French Senate That The

object of the September Convention was to create in Italy two distinct sovereignties. He meant, he added, temporal sovereignties, for " we here only discuss things temporal," a......

Mr. Hunt, When Objecting On Tuesday To The Cattle Plague

Bill, alluded openly to the rumour that Sir George Grey intends shortly to seek repose and rest from the cares of office." It is believed indeed in some quarters that he only......

The Debate, Both On Wednesday Morning And On Thursday Night

in committee, brought out the enormous strength of the landed interest in the Commons. The larger borough members scarcely knew each other, and were disunited and feeble. Mr.......

Mr. J. S. Mill Made His Maiden Speech In The

House on the cattle-plague debate of Wednesday. He was not distinctly heard, and the Parliamentary gossip about the speech was at first un- favourable. His argument, it was......

We Publish Elsewhere Two Replies To Lord Shaftesbury...

labourers in Dorsetshire, and printed as they wrote them. We have their nitrites, and can vouch 'that they are common day- labourers, in no respect different frinn those around......

News Of The Week.

THE week has been, for political purposes, poisoned by the cattle plague. The Government Bill was introduced on Monday, and has been upon the whole accepted by the country......