21 FEBRUARY 1874, page 2

The Irish Elections Came To A Close With The Poll

for Wexford county, in which Sir George Bowyer and the Chevalier Keyes O'Clery were elected in the Home-rule interest. The Chevalier is an example of quite a new class of "......

The Governing Board Of Rugby Decided On Thursday To Appoint

Dr. Jex-Blake, now Principal of Cheltenham College, to the Head Mastership vacant by the dismissal of Dr. Hayman. Mr. Percival, of Clifton College, was, we imagine, passed over......

The News Of The Famine In Bengal Is Still Most

disheartening. The 'Viceroy sends little information whatever, but it appears from his telegram and other sources that exportation has stopped, and that little grain reaches......

As We Apprehended, Mr. Fortescue Was Defeated In Louth, And

Ireland, like Prince Schwartzenberg, may boast that it has astonished Europe by its ingratitude. That the same county which in election after election enthusiastically returned......

There Have Been Endless Rumours In Paris This Week Of

some Bonapartist movement, but they appear to be based on nothing more solid than a letter -from M. .Rouher, stating that he sup- ports the Septennat provisionally, but will......

We Commented Last Week On The Extraordinary Completeness...

and Cornwall,—the mining counties, and even in East Cornwall, we have since lost again the seat which in 1868 we won back,—there are very feweeats which the Liberals have won by......

The Berlin Correspondent Of The Times States That The...

Bill reduces the time of service in-the German Army from three years to two, thus allowing the reform against which the King- of Prussia fought so fiercely up. to 1866. The......

The Emperor Of Austria Has This Week Paid A Visit

to the Czar, the first since the " sublime ingratitude " of 1854, when Austria turned against Russia in the Crimean war. It is affirmed on all hands that the fate of Turkey was......