19 MARCH 1870, page 12

Nineteen Assistant-masters Of Rugby Have Sent In A...

the House of Commons praying for an alteration in the constitu- tion of the new governing body. It appears that the Public School Commissioners had made five of the old trustees......

As We Anticipated, The American Senate Is Most Unwilling To

confirm the treaty for the purchase of San Domingo. Its unwillingness arises mainly from a reluctance to receive more negro citizens, or to incur great expense upon a fleet ;......

The Home Secretary Has Put Out A Statement Contradicting In

very many important particulars O'Donovan Rossa's account of his prison sufferings, and showing them to be apparently wilfully coloured in many other particulars. He has been......

Lord Hartington Appears Disposed To Concede The Halfpenny...

He told a deputation which waited on him on Saturday that his only doubt was about the economic result of the plan. He had found on inquiry that the department could do the......

The Debate Was Resumed On Tuesday By Mr. Winterbotham, M.p.

for Stroud, in that -very able and candid exposition of the social jealousy felt by the Dissenters of the power of the Church, on which we have commented at length elsewhere.......

The Times States That The Governing Body Of Christ Church

College, Oxford, have abolished the privileges hitherto allowed to Peers' sons. They are to claim their degrees like other men, and the gold tuft on the cap and silk gown, till......

The Navy Is Over-officered, Particularly In The Grades...

rank of Commander. Mr. Childers has arranged a scheme under which officers who are above certain ages or who have not been afloat for ten years must retire on increased......

After The Debate Had Concluded, A Bitter Little Scene Took

place on the question of adjournment, in which Mr. Fawcett assumed for the second time that evening to speak as one that seemed to be a "pillar" of the Left wing, and Mr. Hardy......

The House Of Commons, Having Nothing On Hand But...

like the Education Bill, the Land Bill, the Crime Bill, and so on, devoted the beat part of Monday night to a furious discussion of the Coote case. The facts, as fairly stated......