19 FEBRUARY 1870, page 2

'ile New Treaty With China Has Been Laid On The

table of the House of Commons, and will be the subject of some warm dis- cwsion. We must postpone the general argument, but we want the India House carefully to consider this......

The New Irish Solicitor-general, Mr. Serjeant Dowse, Has...

for Londonderry by a majority of 90,-654 against 564 for Mr. Baxter. From the tone of the Conservative papers, it seems not unlikely that there may be a petition against the......

The Bishop Of Exeter's Speech Of Yesterday Week In The

Upper House of Convocation was a very manly explanation of the mistake into which he had been betrayed when he withdrew his essay from future editions of " Fasays and Reviews."......

There Was A Lively Debate On Monday On Mr. Fawcett's

motion for an address to the Queen, praying that her rights over Epping Forest may be defended, in order that it may be preserved as an open space for the recreation of the......

Mr. Cardwell On Monday Obtained Leave To Bring In A

Bill creat- ing a "Clerk of the Ordnance," with supreme power over that department, and a "Financial Secretary of the War Department," both of them to be Parliamentary......

A Conservative Has Been Returned For Southwark. At The Close

of the poll the figures stood thus :—Colonel Beresford (Con- servative), 4,680; Mr. Odger (Radical), 4,382 ; Sir Sydney Waterlow (Liberal), 2,966,—majority for Colonel......

Lord Carnarvon Brought Up The Question Of Our Relations With

the American Colonies on Monday. In a very temperate but telling speech he sought to prove that the Colonial Office, in devolving on the Government of Ottawa new and heavy......

Mr. Gladstone, In Answer To A Question Put Yesterday Week,

declared his wish and intention to introduce, after Easter, a measure altering (and we stippose in effect repealing) the abortive Ecclesiastical 'Tian' Act passed on occasion of......

Lord Salisbury Has Kept His Word, And The Great Eastern

Railway has declared a dividend. It is only a half per cent., but when he took the chair the Railway seemed almost hopelessly embarrassed. The Marquis alluded at the meeting to......