Mr. Vernon Harcourt Has Formulated His Theory Of National...
in a speech to the United Service Institution. He says that if Prussia, Russia, France, and America united to attack us, we should still have more ironclads than the allies, and......
A Parliamentary Return Has Just Been Issued About...
appears that less than 20,000 persons own the soil of Ireland, of whom 5,982 own less than 100 acres. These, of course, are resident ; and so are 5,589 more, owning an average......
The Spanish Minister Of Finance Has Presented His Budget,...
shows an estimated receipt of £21,400,000, against an -estimated expenditure of £26,500,000, or a deficiency of more than five millions sterling. It is proposed to meet this by......
We Have Been Perfectly Overwhelmed This Week With...
of them unusually long, about the Permissive Bill and the history of free licensing in Liverpool. We have printed one, not because it is worth reading, for there is nothing in......
In The Convocation Of The University Of London, On Tues-
day, Mr. Shaen made the rather important announcement that he had received from Sir Roundell Palmer the most explicit assurance that as far as he (Sir Roundell Palmer) was......
Has M. Thiers Lost All Control Of His Police? He
promised not to send any more destitute Communists to England, but they are shipped hither every week in batches, the captains of the steamers receiving their pay direct from......
The " Claimant" Is Amusing Himself, Pending His Trial For
perjury, by " starring " it among the tenantry of the Tichborne estates. On Tuesday he was at Alresford, "attended," as the Court Circular says, by Mr. Guildford Onslow, and......
Something Of The Old Cromwellian Spirit Has Always...
the Evangelical party in their dealings with the heathen. A good -sound Calvinist can always be trusted in India to do stern work, and sometimes does not stop sufficiently to......
Mr. Lowe Also Declared Himself On A Subject Which Had
engaged the attention of Convocation on the previous day, and led to a very narrow division,—the desirability of dispensing with a knowledge of Greek at the matriculation of......
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