21 DECEMBER 1867, page 1

Mr. Gladstone Made Three Great Speeches At Oldham On Wed-

nesday, on the most important points of which we have com- mented elsewhere. In addition to what we have there said, we may remark that with relation to Ireland he condemned......

The Idea Of A Conference On The Italian Question Has

been formally given up in Paris. It appears that Napoleon accepts a situation he did not intend, for on 16th October S. Nigra saw M. Rouher, and told him that if French troops......

In Opening A Mechanics' Institute On Wednesday Afternoon...

appealed, in " conclusive proof " of the vitality of the English nation, to the number of really considerable poets in the last fifty years,—a phenomenon which he considered......

News Of The Week.

T HE topic of the week has been the gigantic crime which we were just able to mention in our last issue, the massacre in Clerkenwell. The history of the affair is not clear to......

The Railway World Was Thunderstruck On Tuesday By The...

of a circular from the Directors of the Midland demanding five millions sterling. Their capital is already 25,000,0001., debts and shares together, but they are building a line......

These Desperate I Crimes Have Roused All England. In...

of the Home Secretary for special constables has been instantly answered, the whole population is alert, and all classes, Irish Catholics included, are determined to put the......

The Latest Telegrams From Abyssinia Are Up To The 7th

December. Before that date King Theodore had destroyed Debra Tabor by fire, and was marching through bands of native insurgents on Magdala, while the advanced brigade of the......