22 SEPTEMBER 1866, page 2

There Seems To Have Been Really Some Kind Of Fighting

in Crete, though the reports received via Athens are of so vague and ques- tionable a nature that we are not sure of the business-like character of the engagement. It is quite......

Sir Samuel Baker, However, Is Moderate In Tone To A

certain Mr. J. H. Elliott, whose letter Mr. Carlyle has thought valuable enough to send to the press. This eloquent and impulsive person begins in the following lofty (if not......

Sir J. P. Grant Has Begun His Administration In Jamaica

by an act rather of good sense than of grace. He has liberated Mr. Levien, the editor of the County Union newspaper, who was arrested by Mr. Eyre under martial' law ; and,......

Mr. Henry Ward Beecher Has Gone Over To The Enemy.

He has written to the Convention of Loyal Soldiers and Sailors, at Cleveland, Ohio, declining to attend it, on the ground that the Constitution has " no place for a State except......

The Paraguay Army Appears To Have Inflicted A Heavy Repulse

on the allied armies of Brazil and the Argentine Confederation on the 16th and 18th July. As the report comes through a Brazilian °channel, the engagement was probably even more......

Sir Samuel Baker Is An Adventurous Traveller And A Very

amusing writer, but he is like the man who supposed that he had a right to dogmatize about the King because he once took off his hat to the Duke of York. He wrote a column and a......

Archbishop Manning Preached At Leeds On Thursday Week An...

sermon in favour of what he called the temporal power, but might, if he is right in his description of the reasons for it, be rather more justly called the temporal weakness of......

The Evidence-of Liberal Bribery Before The Totnes...

going on this week, and some of it very clearly impli- cates the agent of the Duke of Somerset in the intimidation of voters. John Brigg.said he voted for Dent and was turned......

The Southern Loyalists Who Assembled In Philadelphia...

Convention, naturally take a very different view of the calming and soothing process from comfortable Mr. Beecher. They are speaking their minds there with their lives in their......