19 MARCH 1870, page 13

Papers Of A Comic Vein When Dealing With Public Questions

are apt to forget that their responsibilities are often even more serious than those of their more staid and therefore less impressive contem- poraries. Punch,—which with its......

One Of The Most Effective Side-hits Of Mr. Winterbotham's...

tion speech was his illustration of the indignities to which Dis- senters were liable at the hands of the Established Church, taken from two charges of the Bishop of Winchester,......

The Committee Has Done A Very Foolish Thing. By A

majority of one it has advised the retention of the uproarious farce called a Nomination. The reasons assigned are nearly unintelligible. The majority say :—" The abolition of......

Consols Were On Friday Evening 93 To 93i.

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The Government, Through Mr. Bruce, Has Announced Its...

of dealing with the Game Laws. Mr. Wykeham Martin on Wednesday proposed the second reading of his Bill, which gives the feathered game to the landlord and the ground game to the......

There Is No News From Rome This Week Of Any

importance, but the effervescence of personal feeling on both sides of the great Infallibility question is getting warmer and warmer, and there can be no pretence in any quarter......

One Writer Of A Threatening Letter In Ireland Has At

last been detected and punished. Mrs. Peunefather, of Golden, Tipperary, recently raised her rents, and among others that of Stephen Meagher, her bailiff, from £36 to in. On 5th......

A Very Curious Illustration Of The Bitterness Of These Roman

Catholic amenities has been furnished lately in the columns of the Catholic journal called the TVeekly Register, where the proprietor of the Tablet, Dr. Herbert Vaughan, has......

The Select Committee On Elections Have Sent In Their Report.

They state that municipal elections, are often very corrupt, and that the corruption cannot be punished, and recommend that the law for such elections should be assimilated to......