21 JUNE 1873, page 2

The Judges At The Court Of Queen's Bench Have Refused

the - rule for a criminal information for libel against Mr. Plimsoll, applied for by Mr. Norwood ; but they have indicated their- opinion that Mr. Plimsoll is liable to • some......

Hospital Sunday In London Seemed To Be At First A

gigantic failure, but with fuller accounts it has become tolerably certain that it will be a disappointing but yet passable success, —that is, that it will contribute a very......

Mr. Henry James's Reply, Which Has Been Much Praised, Seems

to us very feeble. His first answer was that this measure would touch so very small a part of the expense of elections,—at the last election, for instance, only £90,000 out of......

London Is Threatened With Another Strike, Or It May Be

lock- out, in the Building Trade. The carpenters and joiners want 9d. an hour, instead of Bid., and the masters refuse it absolutely now, and refuse it even in March, 1874,......

Mr. Dixon Has Given Notice That He Will Move, As

an amend- ment to Mr. Forster's Education Bill (1873), " That in the opinion of this House, no amendment to the Education Act could be- regarded as satisfactory which did not......

Mr. Fawcett Moved On Wednesday The Second Reading Of His

Bill for throwing the " necessary " expenses of elections on the rates in a very able speech, showing that in all probability the charge on every elector holding a ten-pound......

The Birmingham League Have, Of Course, Declared Them-...

a very exaggerated spirit against Mr. Forster's Education Act Amendment Bill, asserting that it will make matters worse instead of better as regards the fees to denomina- tional......

The Inner Templars Changed Their Mind At The Last Moment,

or were overborne by the Middle Templars, who did not like to stick to the shabby policy of no collections on so great an occa- sion. A correspondence which appeared between the......