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The American House Of Representatives Has Passed, By 171 Tc>

25, a Bill granting an amnesty to all rebels, except such as had been military or naval officers in the Federal service before the war, or members of Congress. The Americans are......

Every French Government In Succession Seems To Accept The...

theory of its own strength,—that it is always weak enough to be blown over by newspaper breath. The Minister of the Interior, who in 1869 argued that all Press offences should......

The Two Parties In The West Riding Have Finally Selected

their candidates for the vacancy in the Northern Division. The Con- servatives will run Mr. F. S. Powell, a wealthy manufacturer noted for local liberality, who says in his......

Messrs. White And Fawcett Addressed Their Constituents At...

Monday, Mr. White taking a much more moderate tone towards the Government than the Professor,—his spirit having been soothed apparently by the stay in Italy which he had made......

Sir J. D. Coleridge's Line Has Been To Show That

the real Roger Charles Tichborne, though a young man with some failings and a certain propensity to drink, was a thorough gentleman at heart, utterly incapable of leading the......

The Austrian Reichsrath, In Its Address In Reply To The

speech from the Throne, recommends direct elections instead of elec- tions through the Diets ; declares that there can be no constitu- tional compromise with the Bohemian......

The German Correspondent, The Demi-official Organ Of...

the Minister of Education, Dr. von Miihler, perhaps the most perverse obscurantist in Europe, has at length resigned, and will probably be succeeded by Dr. Falk. The cause of......

M. Fialin, Who In 1833 Called Himself Vicomte De Persigny,

and in 1869 was created Duc de Persigny, died at Nice on Friday week, the 12th inst. He was the Emperor's henchman, either believed in Bonapartism, or said he did, and had......

We Have Commented Elsewhere On M. Thiers' Latest Speech, In

which he pronounces the Treaty with England deplorable and fatal ; but must here note that he has uttered two or three speeches since not reported, that every economist in the......

Mr. Vernon Lushington, Permanent Secretary To The...

the Megora Commissioners a noteworthy account of the way business is done in that department. It received more than 100,000 letters a year, but nobody was responsible for open-......