19 DECEMBER 1868, page 1

Mr. Childers Is Carrying Out Some Reform Of The Admiralty,

which may or may not be effective, but which certainly does not look so. What the Admiralty wants is a First Lord with complete power and responsiblity, a Sea Lord who shall be......

The Revolt In Cadiz Is Over. A Large Body Of

troops were collected at the gates, and their commander, General Caballero de &du, offered the insurgents their lives if they would submit. Un- supported from Seville, whence......

The Rumour, Which Early In The Week Seemed Ahnost Authentic,

that Lord Mayo's recall had been decided upon, and that Lord Salisbury had placed his services at the disposal of the Government for the Governor-Generalship of India after Sir......

M. De Moustier Has Been Replaced As Minister Of Foreign

Affairs by M. de Lavalette. War is breaking out in the East, and M. de Lavalette, French Lord Stratford, takes the helm. 11'm ! That does not look as if peace were quite secure.......

Mr. Gladstone Is Going To Utilize The Young Peers. Lords

Camperdown and Morley, Lords-in-Waiting, are to represent departments not represented in the Upper House, and, as the Daily News cleverly puts it, to realize the poet's thought,......

Since We Wrote Last Week, Lord Dufferin Has Been Appointed

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (without a seat in the Cabinet)-; Sir Colman O'Loghlen (a cleverish Irishman), Judge- Advocate ; Mr. G. Shaw-Lefeyre, one of the ablest of......

News Of The Week

T HE news of the week is the rupture between Turkey and Greece. The affair is encumbered with details, true and false, but the pith of it appears to be this,—Greece has been......

The Accounts From Cuba Are Contradictory, But It Appears To

be, on the whole, probable that Spain will lose the island. She appears to be as cordially disliked there as in her other colonies, she drains the island of all surplus revenue,......

The House Of Representatives Has Resolved By 154 Votes...

6, that" all forms of repudiation of the national indebtedness are odious to the American people, whose representatives will not offer to the national creditors a less amount......