21 AUGUST 1869, page 2

As Usual, During The Recess, The Daily Papers Keep Tapping

the rock, but they have not drawn water yet in any quantity. The discussion about the morality of Formosa does not yield much, except to the lessee of Drury Lane, and London has......

The Times' Commissioner Sent To Inquire On The Spot Into

Irish tenure has fairly commenced his work, and as yet betrays no bias. He is in Tipperary, and describes the labourers there as fairly well off ; but the fkrmers are almost all......

We Published The Other Day Some Speculations On One Of

the most startling of astronomical facts, the explosion, or rather the conflagration of Tau Corona. It appears that another and much more important star is slowly taking itself......

Two Of The London Gas Monopolies Have Gone Out Of

town, the Imperial Company to West Ham, and the Chartered Gas Com- pany to Beeton, near the northern outfall of the drainage. This company is spending about £700,000 on its new......

The Prince Imperial Has Performed One Of The Functions Of

royalty for the first time. Napoleon, being unable to pass his fete "in the midst of his , great military family " at Chalons, sent his son, now thirteen years of age. The child......

An Occurrence, Unique Of Its Kind, Is Reported From Berlin.

The Rev. H. Heinrici, Lutheran minister, was reading the Creed in the Cathedral, and had reached the words, " I believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost,"......

We Commence To-day The Publication Of A Short Series Of

papers on the prospects of the English labourer in America. They are condensed by their author from a report made by him to the Society of Arts, who sent him out to examine the......

The German Governments Are Evidently Seriously Moved By...

imputed to the Pope. They believe that the (Ecumenical Council will modify the Syllabus so as to refuse to the State all control over the Catholic clergy. So grave is this......

The Able Correspondent Of The Pall Mall Gazette Who Writes

from Barcelona declares—he is a Conservative witness—that the Spaniards are utterly disgusted with their system of justice, and will remedy it, if no other remedy is obtainable,......

Captain Seymour, The Orange Candidate For Antrim, Has...

by three to one, though his opponent, Sir A. Shafto Adair, stood pledged to vote for tenant-right. Captain Seymour, naturally, declared that he should resist the ballot.......

The Pall Mall Gazette Says The Abolition Of Suttee Among

Hindoos was due to Sir Charles Napier. Sir Charles did forbid it in Scinde, but in so doing he only obeyed a general Act passed in the reign of Lord William Bentinck, which......