On Tuesday, The Question Of Abolishing Patronage In The...
Church of Scotland was brought up in both Houses. Lord Airlie argued that patronage had been the cause of every secession in the Church of Scotland, pointed out that it had no......
Mr. Stansfeld Is Toiling Along With His Rating Bill, Which
makes pretty fair progress, but is impeded at every turn by de- mands for exemption. On Friday se'nniglit he obtained a sort of consensus of the House that if personal property......
Mr. Lowe's Bank Bill Has Been Published, And Is Very
nearly what we suspected it to be. It provides what whenever the First Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Governor of the Bank, and Deputy-Governor of......
A Great English Statesman (sir Thomas More), Who Died Upon
the scaffold rather than swear against his conscience, wrote in -prison this fable respecting " over-scritpuloustiess of conscience :"— -" A poor ass after his shrift, when he......
At The Oxford Commemoration, On Wednesday, Professor...
honorary degree of D.C.L., whereupon the Margaret Professor of Divinity, Dr. Heurtley, lodged a kind of protest, in which he said that he did not object to a Mohammedan......
The Debate In The Commons Was Very Like That In
the Lords, but it brought up Mr. Gladstone, who pleaded for a Parlia- mentary Committee to investigate the subject, and particularly to ascertain the feeling of the people of......
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 Zanzibar Contract Incident Is Again Postponed, Mr....
of a Select Committee having been accepted, Mr. Lowe made stout battle for his contract, but made nothing of it, the plain fact being that he had, under a fanciful notion of......
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