19 MAY 1866, page 3

The Governing Body Of Wadham College, Oxford, Have...

to take such steps with respect to the religions discipline of the College as may be requisite to enable persons not being members of the Church of England to be admitted to the......

The Return Of The Bank Of France Shows It Decrease

in the stock of bullion of 224,000/. In the circulation there is an increase of 128,0001., in the bills discounted of 1,420,6701., and in the advances of 128,000/.......

The Present Week's Return Of The Bank Of England Shows

extra- ordinary changes. The decrease in bullion is 832,3351., whilst the increase in private securities amounts to 10,099,042/. The cir- culation has increased 3,776,600/.......

Lord Chelmsford's Sunday Trading Bill, Which Began By...

many exceptions for the Sabbatarian party and putting in too many restrictions for the Anti-Sabbatarian party, passed through - the Committee of the Lords on Tuesday night,—when......

Mr. Cardwell Declines To Give Any Opinion As To Whether

the .Jamaica Indemnity Act should be disallowed by the Queen or not, till after the evidence received by the Commissioners and appended to their report reaches him. We suppose......

In Aberdeenshire The Liberals Have Had Their First...

a great triumph it is. Mr. Fordyce was returned by a majority of no less than 1,087 over Sir J. Elphinstone, 2,173 voting for Mr. Fordyce, to 1,088 for Sir J. Elphinstone.......

The Bank Directors Are Now Charging 10 Per Cent. For

dis- counts. In the open market very little capital can be obtained under that rate.......

The Closing Prices Of The Leading Foreign Securities...

on Friday week w ere as under :— Friday, May 11. Friday, May 18. Mexican .. 151 171 Spanish Passive .. Li} 201 Do. Certificates.. 14 14 Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858.. .• 59......

The Purchases Of Stock On Account Of The Public Having

been extensive, the Consol market has been somewhat active this week, and prices have steadily advanced. On Saturday last Consols for money left off at 86/ /. Yesterday they......

Sir Robert Peel Seems Anxious To Justify The Government In

having got rid of his counsels, by behaving in Parliament as much like a wild Irishman at Donnybrook fair, and as little like an Irish Secretary, whose duty it is to try to make......

Mr. Cardwell Has Introduced A Bill To Enable The Colonial

!Bishops to surrender their letters patent, and so to do away with all the ineffectual attempts which appear to have been uninten- tionally made by the Crown to establish......

Colonel Hobbs, Who Was So Much, And We Fear So

justly, cen- -sured for his Jamaica campaign, seems to have been one of those excitable men who are probably hardly responsible for their own most culpable acts. The censure......

A Schoolmaster Of Bradford Named Blum, A German By Birth,

has been murdered near Liverpool under somewhat peculiar cir- cumstances. He had been summoned to Liverpool, as is supposed from his own statement to his fianede by a letter......