22 AUGUST 1868, page 3

The Princes Of Most Of The Royal Families Of Europe,

including all the five Powers, have signed an agreement binding them mutually to assist the museums of Europe in procuring "casts and copies of national objects for the......

Unless The Accounts Are Much Exaggerated, The State Of...

is that of unorganized civil war. White society is honeycombed with secret associations, whose members carry arms and bind themselves to put down negroes, while the Blacks seem......

Dr. Hooker Took Occasion During His Lecture To Condemn The

way in which local museums are built and located. They are usually ordinary houses, imperfectly lighted, huddled away in dirty streets, and filled with the dust which destroys......

It Is Stated That The Hon. F. Stanley Will Succeed

Mr. Ducane as Civil Lord of the Admiralty, and that Sir M. H. Beach be- .comes Under Secretary for the Home Department, vice Sir James Fergusson, neither of them appointments......

Dr. Hooker Has Been Elected President Of The British...

for the Advancement of Science for this year, and delivered his inaugural address on Wednesday at Norwich. We have mentioned one feature of his speech elsewhere, his advice that......

The Gentleman Who Is Reporting For The Times The Proceedings

of the Wesleyan Conference, and who is clearly a Wesleyan, gives a remarkable account of the decline among them of propa- gandist feeling. "The Wesleyans cannot advocate one......

Sir John Kerslake, The Attorney-gmeral, Has Also...

in the same city, but his speech was of the strictly partizan kind, and he descended to the assertion that if the Liberals obtained power upon the Irish Church question they......

The Viennese Papers Are Disturbed By Reports Of Projected...

upon Bulgaria through the Principalities. It is stated that the Austrian Government has prohibited the export of arms to Roumania, Servia, and Bosnia, and it is noticed that a......

Although The Exports Of Gold Have Fallen Off...

Home Securities have been very inactive this week, and prices have had a downward tendency. Yesterday, Consols, for money, left off at 93.1, ; 1Liduced and New Three per Cents.,......

The Chairman Of The Metropolitan Railway Company States,...

that he intends to meet the crash of traffic on that line by increasing the number of carriages in each train from five to six, and by increasing the trains until there shall be......

Yesterday And On Friday Week The Leading Foreign Bonds Left

off at the annexed quotations :— Aug.21. :4 • 37 05 Brazilian, 186.5 Egyptian, 1664 Italian Mexican Aug. 14 77 851 591 151 Ang.21. 771 851 51 144 Russian (Angio-Dutch) Spanish,......

Yesterday And On Friday Week The Leading British Railways...

off at the annexed quotations Aug. 21. Aug. 14. Aug. H. 364 Lon.. Chatham,i Dover 101 191 106 Metropolitan 1164 1111 44 Midland 100 10r4 130 Nrth-Eseteru, Berwick 102 101 621......