18 JANUARY 1868, page 3

Mr. Gladstone Was Compelled In His Last Budget To Mention

the death of a private individual, Mr. Thornton, whose wealth was so 'enormous that the legacy duty received perceptibly affected the national revenue. Mr. Thornton, however,......

M. Athanase Coquerel Pere, For Thirty Years The Pastor Of

the Reformed Church in Paris, and the head of its Presbytery, has died within the last week in Paris in his 73rd year. He was one of the least orthodox of the French Protestant......

Mr. Fawcett Delivered A Lecture On Tuesday To The Reform

League on the condition of the agricultural population, whom he described as living in a state of semi-starvation on 10s. a - week, working like machines—the farmers, we fear,......

The Star Has Published A Poem Of Garibaldi's, " Garibaldi's

Answer to Victor Hugo, transmitted and done into English by an Oxford Graduate." It shows decisively that Garibaldi has no common command of poetical rhetoric, some of which (as......

A Phenomenon Common Enough In Canada, But Very Rare In

England, occurred this day week on the Chiltern Hills,—an ice- storm,—in other words, a fall of rain which froze as it fell, so as to adhere tightly to any object it touched, in......

Yesterday And On Friday Week The Leading British Railways

left off at the annexed quotations :- Friday, Jan. 10. Friday, Jan. 17. Great Eastern... 20* 214 Great Northern 1065 1064 Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire 1234 45} . 12......

The Italian Parliament Has Reassembled, But The Debates...

dull. General Menabrea's opening speech was vague, a mere 'exhortation to rally round the cause of order, and the Members await Count Cambray Digny's budget on the 20th. It is......

There Has Been An Improved Feeling In The Market For

Home Securities, at an advance in the quotations of f per cent. On Monday, Consols, both for money and time, opened at 92f, ; yesterday, they closed at 921, t, after having......

Mr. John Martin, Patriotic Person Of Kilbroney, Recently...

all Irish patriots to raise a penny subscription for the families of the " Manchester martyrs." In Cork about 751. was collected, but in all the rest of Ireland barely 291.......

Yesterday And On Friday Week The Leading Foreign Bonds Left

off at the annexed quotations:— Friday, Jan. 10. Friday, Jan. 17. Mexican 151 151 Spanish New Turkish 6 per Cents., 1855 59 1862 60 57 x. d.... 574 United States 5.20's .... 711......