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A Kind Of Revolution Has Occurred At Cairo. The Ministry

had resolved to reduce the army, now nearly 40,000 strong, to 10,000 men, by summary disbandment, and to dismiss 2,000 officers, with or without their arrears of pay. The......

The Debate On Mr. Dillwyn's Motion For A Special Finance

Committee, to revise the Civil Service Estimates before they are submitted to the House, was a very remarkable and in- structive one. The sensation of the debate was the......

The First Bulgarian Assembly Opens To-day. Most Of The...

have arrived at Tirnova, and are found to be men belonging to all classes, but all taking an intelligent interest in the national politics. The majority, it is said, are......

Prince Bismarck Has Had A Very Severe Rebuke. The German

Chancellor had requested permission from the Reichstag to prosecute the two Socialist Deputies, Herren Hasselmnnn and Fritsche, who were expelled Berlin, for returning to take......

The Debate Of Yesterday Week On Mr. Meldon's Motion To

establish household suffrage in the Irish boroughs,—i.e., to assimilate the borough franchise in Ireland and England,—was a very interesting one. It elicited, for instance, a......

Pasha For Oppression, Has Been Appointed Ambassador At...

; that Sir Henry Layard comes home from Constan- tinople, ostensibly on the ground of ill-health, which we are happy to believe is not serious ; and that the British invasion of......

Mr. Goschen On Monday Brought Up The Subject Of A

gold coinage for India, in the form of a request that the Government wonld promise not to alter the regulations affecting currency in India before Parliament had discussed any......

Lord Cairns Introduced His Bankruptcy Bill On Monday, In An

excellent descriptive speech, in which he told the Lerds that the plan of leaving creditors to look after their debts had failed ; that liquidations by arrangement or......