20 JANUARY 1877, page 1

News Of The Week.

T HE Turks have sent the Ambassadors of Europe home again. The final reply has not yet been given, but the Grand 'Council, to which the Sultan had referred the question, met on......

Thereupon Lord Penzance, In An Exceedingly Temperate And...

after insisting on the fact that no attempt had been made to enforce Mr. Tooth's obedience to the prin- ciple laid down in the Purchas Judgment, and that on the other points Mr.......

On Sunday There Were Three Services, Two Of Them Being

early- communion services, at St. James's, Hatcham, after which, soon after nine o'clock, the church was closed, by the order of the Bishop of Rochester, and also,—as the......

The Joint Committee Of The American Congress Has Reported In

favour of a compromise which it is believed both Houses and the country will accept. The members advise that both Houses shall meet on the second Wednesday in February, when the......

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On This Day Week, Dr. Stephens Applied To The Dean

of the Court of Arches, Lord Penzance, to ask that the Rev. Arthur Tooth might be declared contumacious, for having defied the notice of suspension pronounced by the Court, and......

The Blow To The Existing Government Of Great Britain Is

very :severe. Supposing the Cabinet to be a unit, as Sir Stafford Northcote asserts, and Lord Beaconsfield to have approved and supported Lord Salisbury, a great effort to......

The Rev. C. L. Prince, Fellow Of The Royal Astro-

nomical Society, writes to the Times of Wednesday, from the Observatory, Crewborough Beacon, Tunbridge Wells, that there are records of disastrous floods caused by the Thames......