20 JANUARY 1866, page 1

The Queen Has Presented A Silver Idol'of The Late Prince

Con- sort, clad in armour like Christian in the Pilgrim's Progress, to Prince William, the eldest son of the Princess Royal, as well as to Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son......

Lord Russell Received A Deputation From The Reform League...

the working men of the metropolis on the subject of the Reform Bill on Tuesday. Several working men spoke at length. He dismissed them with characteristic curtness—" I shall not......

News Of The Week.

5 /R. GOSCHEN has not been gazetted yet, but there appears to 1. be no doubt of his appointment to the Duchy of Lancaster, or of the extreme irritation the selection has caused......

Mr. Edward Jaines, Q.c., And Mr. Fitzjames Stephen, Have...

a very lucid opinion as to the validity of the declaration of martial law' in Jamaica, and the legal power it gave. Courts- martial, they say, are not courts of justice at all,......

Mr. H. Fenwick, Member For Sunderland, Has Accepted The...

of Civil Lord of the Admiralty. We dare say he will make a decent one, and it was scarcely necessary to add that Lord Palmerston intended to appoint him. Suppose he did. He ap-......

The Prussian Parliament Was Opened On The 18th Inst., In

a speech read by Count von Bismark. In it the King is made to say that as the three Orders had not agreed upon the Budget, he had carried on affairs without one ; that the......

It Seems That Some Of The Extraordinary Reports Of Courts-

martial and their results published in the Colonial Standard of Jamaica were actually written, as was suspected in England at the time, by correspondents shocked beyond measure......