Lord Rosebery On Tuesday Made An Amusing Speech On The
affairs of Heligoland, a colony which he described as a place where formerly there was a gaming-table, and where last year the island was nearly destroyed by rabbits. Heligoland......
Mr. Disraeli Gained A Remarkable Though An Easy Victory On
Monday night. Mr. Bentinck moved that the head of the Admi- ralty should always be a sailor, and for some reason we do not quite understand—for Mr. Bentinck had only eighteen......
Lord Cairns Explained, On Thursday Night, What He...
do in relation to effecting an economy of Judges in Ireland, of whom there are now twenty-three. In the Queen's Bench, where there are four Judges, no change is proposed. The......
The Week Has Been One Of The Stormiest For A
hundred years back. The westward-flowing rivers, already swollen by heavy rains and the great snow-storm of Sunday last, have been so arrested by the violent western gales, that......
Lord Halifax, On Tuesday, Called The Attention Of The Lords
to Lord Salisbury's despatch ordering the Viceroy of India to obtain "previous sanction" for an Act he intended to pass, or any alteration in any Bill revised and ap- proved at......
Something Not Quite Intelligible Is Going On In The Far
East of Asia. The Government of St. Petersburg have announcedthat tint Japanese, on the 8th inst., declared war on the King of Corea, the great peninsula between Japan and......
M. Minghetti, The Italian Minister Of Finance, Produced...
on the 16th inst., which created a strong sensation. He stated that the receipts of 1875 from all sources showed a decided increase, so that the account closed with a deficit of......
Little Has Been Heard From The East This Week, But
that little is unfavourable to Turkey. The insurgents in the Herzegovina do not yield, the Turkish troops appear to be demoralised by privations, and it is more than doubtful if......
Mr. Gladstone Has Written A Remarkable Letter To Mr. G.
Mitchell, the stonemason who leads the Somersetshire agricultural labourers, and who is perhaps better known under his usual signature of "One from the Plough," in answer to an......
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