1 AUGUST 1868, page 2

Our Readers Will See, Irons A Letter Which Appears In

our advertising columns, that Mr. Bagehot has relinquished his candidature for the University of London, which we greatly fear that Mr. Lowe will now be called upon to......

Mr. Bright Made A Speech At Birmingham Yesterday Week, In

which he developed his political moderation, by explaining that there was one rasped in which he did not at all wish to see Englishmen following the lead of American......

That, However, Was Not The Opinion Of The Saturday Review,

which produced on this subject, last Saturday, the most malignant and disreputable article which we ever remember to have read in a paper of high general ability and culture. It......

Lord Cranworth, The Last Liberal. Lord Chancellor, Died...

three days' illness at his seat at Holwood last Sunday,— killed, apparently, by the heat,—at the age of seventy-eight. He was a man whom all respected, of sound sense and calm......

Sir Stafford Northcote Presented The Indian Budget On...

the dreary, unimaginative way in which Secretaries for India always do present Indian Budgets. They never seem to feel their own figures, amazing as those figures usually are ;......

Mr. Laing Followed Sir Stafford Northcote With A Proposal To

raise 20,000,000/. for public works, and strike that item out of the regular budgets. That is a sound proposal as a matter of account, but we will just warn Sir Stafford of one......

Sir Charles Russell Put, A Question To Mr. Gathorne Hardy

in the House of Commons yesterday week intended to bring out the disreputable avocations of Mr. James Finlen, who headed the deputation to Mr. Gladstone a fortnight ago......

The Week Has Been Less Uniformly Hot Than The Last

; Wed- nesday was damp, and almost cold ; indeed, we heard of fires being in demand in some families on the evening of that day ; but Thursday and yesterday again were sultry,......