21 MARCH 1868, page 2

The Prince Of Wales Is About To Visit Ireland In

order to be admitted to the Order of St. Patrick, to evoke the loyalty of Dublin, and to attend the Punchestown races.......

Miles Wetherill, The Todmorden Murderer, Was Tried On...

and sentenced to death. No new evidence was produced at the trial, and the only defence attempted was that the unprovoked brutality of the murders proved insanity itself—the......

The Emeute Has Probably Hastened The Publication Of A...

believed to be by the Emperor, but at all events republished in the Malheur, upon the title of Napoleon to the throne. It is a mere Est of the number of votes by which Napoleon......

Ludwig, The Second King Of Bavaria, Is, -it Is Said,

about to abdicate in favour of his brother Otho, a lad of nineteen. The House of Wittelsbach seems to have a talent for abdication, this being the second within twenty years.......

All The Intelligence Received From France Shows The...

of the new Military Law. The summons to join the Garde Mobile has been resisted by force in no less than six places, and in Toulouse the resistance was serious. The workmen......

Last Twe Gentlemen Will Be Of Some Use In The

House of Peers. Mr. Stirling—as we fancy he ought to be called—is a scholar, and litterateur of merit, of great possessions, and a fancy for titles, having assumed a baronetcy......

The Irish Reform Bill Was Introduced By Lord Mayo On

Thurs- day night. It is remarkable as a violation of nearly every principle hitherto laid down by Mr. Disraeli. It leaves the county suffrage untouched, but reduces the borough......

Mr. Disraeli's Reply Was One Of His Most Felicitous Displays

of intellectual pluck, and certainly the most utterly infelicitous of all his many infelicitous suppressions of logic. " Laughter " occurs in the Times' report of his speech......

Lord Hardwicke, Lord-lieutenant Of Cambridgeshire, Called...

Cambridgeshire Registration Society for Saturday, to consider future operations. His Lordship himself attended, and his son, Lord Royston, M.P., and a Mr. Hicks ; but not one......

The Senate Has Fixed The 23rd Inst., Next Monday, For

the trial of President Johnson, whose answers must be presented on that day. The charges are nine in number—the removal of Mr. Stanton and appointment of Lorenzo Thomas,......

The Duke Of Richmond Has Accepted A Proposition...

forward in the Economist, watered it down for Parliamentary consumption, and embodied it in a Bill. The Economist proposed an official audit of Railway accounts. The Duke......

Mr. Disraeli, When Dismissing Lord Chelmsford, Offered To...

for any favour he might be disposed to request of the Crown. Lord Chelmsford has asked nothing, but Mr. Disraeli, with a fine sense of the expediency of making an enemy......