22 FEBRUARY 1868, page 1

The Most Important Event Of The Week Has Been The

appearance of Mr. J. S. Mill's and Lord Russell's tracts on Ireland. On Mr. ,1. S. Mill's, which is much the more striking, we have com- mented elsewhere. Lord Russell is, as......

The Press Contest Still Lingers On In The French Assembly,

and on one very important point the Opposition obtained a very large minority. M. Berryer moved an amendment that the papers to which the Government advertisements are to be......

There Has Been A Good Deal Of Angry Feeling Excited

in Prussia against Austria by the Hanoverian dinner to celebrate the King of Danover's silver wedding,—many of the Hanoverians present having had Austrian passports. The King......

News Of The Week.

O N Tuesday the Times wrote of Lord Derby in the past tense, though explaining (rather awkwardly) at the commence- ment of the article that it was to be hoped the past tense......

The Times Also Killed Mr. Justice Shee (our Only Roman

Catholic Judge of recent times) prematurely on Saturday. He survived the announcement some days, but died on Wednesday morning, at the age of 64, having been barely four years......

This Bill Was Not, On The Whole, Well Received By

the Scotch Members. Mr. Baxter (M.P. for the Montrose district) entered a very manly and vigorous protest against any addition to the number of the House of Commons. " Rather......

The Scotch Reform Bill Was Brought In By The Lord

Advocate on Monday. It extends the borough franchise to a household rating suffrage, the county franchise to a 121. rating suffrage, as in England; and guts the counties of "all......

According To The Last News From Natal, The Highest Court

of the settlement has decided as the Archbishop of York predicted a fortnight ago,—that Natal was a Crown colony, and not a colony with " representative institutions,"—when Dr.......

Sir Alexander Cockburn's Letter To The Lord Chancellor On...

duties proposed to be conferred on the Judges by the Corrupt Practices Bill has been published, and seems to us, we confess, cavalier in style and weak in substance. It conveys......