17 JULY 1875, page 1

News Of The Week • T He Weather Has Been Horrible

all the week, one long succession of rainfalls, so heavy that the hay still on the ground may be considered lost, that the prospects of the harvest are seriously threatened, and......

The French Assembly Has Been Agitated This Week With Bona-

partist debates. On Tuesday the report invalidating the election of the Baron de Bourgoing for the Nievre, on the ground of the aid afforded him by the Bonapartist Central......

• On Wednesday And Thursday The Debate Was In Reality,

though not in form, about a proposed censure on M. Rouher for pre- siding over the Bonapartist Central Committee. M. Rouher spoke for three hours, maintaining the right of the......

Lord Penzance Put A Question To Lord Derby On Monday,

in relation to the German despatch to Belgium of the 3rd of February last, in which the German Minister lays it down as an "incontestable principle of international law" that "a......

The Most Noteworthy Speeches In The Debate Were Those Of

Mr. Bright and Sir Wilfrid Lawson. Mr. Bright's speech was nearly perfect in form. He supported the grant because he held it only reasonable that if the Heir of Great Britain......

The Debate In The House Of Commons On Thursday On

the grant to the Prince of Wales for the expenses of his journey to India was tame, and on the whole, unsatisfactory. Mr. Disraeli made a turgid speech, the point of which was......

* * The Editors Cannot Undertalce To Return Manuscript In

any ease. •......