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An English Clergyman, The Rev. B. Philpot, Rector Of Lydney,

confirms from personal observation the statements of the frightful distress of the Circassians. He found at Czernavoda 20,000 men encamped, and swarming out detachments under......

The Yelverton Case Has Proceeded All Through The Week, The

Attorney-General occupying most of the time with an able speech intended to prove that Mrs. Yelverton's letters were perfectly proper. The discussion seems to amuse the public......

Lord Gage Has Introduced A Bill Empowering, But Not Compel-

ling, clergymen, when the Church's first lesson is taken from the Apocrypha, to read instead thereof a portion of one of the Canoni- cal books of the Old Testament. It might be......

Mr. John Coleman, Of Marshall's House, Prescot, Is Quite...

vinced that his client Mr. George Shakespeare, of 6, Great Berry Street, Wolverhampton, is the descendant of the poet's brother Humphrey, and publishes his pedigree. It is......

Mr. Ferrand Made On Friday A Speech Characteristically...

against the Board of Charitable Trusts. He spared the Com- missioners, but thought most of the remaining employes were either snobs, or fraudulent persons, or men appointed in......

Sir Charles Wood Has Resolved To Admit Gold As Quasi

currency into India in a very odd way. He told the House in answer to a speech from Mr. .1. B. Smith in favour of the introduction of gold that, as the sovereign was worth ten......

The Conservative Dinner For Entrapping Undergraduates...

Lord Robert Cecil, and alienating them from Mr. Glad- stone, has led to a short passage of arms between the Chancellor of the University (Lord Derby) and the Professor of Latin,......

Mr. Stansfeld, The Member For Halifax, Took The Chair On

Wed- nesday last at a public dinner given by the Unitarians of Man- chester, after laying the foundation-stone of a Bicentenary Memorial Hall, and made a speech, in which he......

Captain Semmes, Of The Alabama, Has Given Us This Week

a letter, in all but its last paragraph temperate, and not without ability, to prove that England, as a neutral Power, instead of prohibiting both belligerents from bringing......

An Address, Expressing "deep Gratitude" To The...

and Canterbury for their recent pastorals on the Privy Council judgment in the case of "Essays and Reviews," and fervently praying that their Graces "may be richly endowed with......