25 APRIL 1868, page 2

The Week Has Been Marked By A Death And A

wedding which are likely to have some consequences. Marshal Narvaez has been carried off by an inflammation of the lungs, and Spain is thereby flung back upon a confused heap of......

The English Journals Choose To Pooh-pooh As Perfectly...

unworthy of impeachment the evidence brought against the President in the Impeachment trial,—but they choose to ignore the real drift of that evidence, namely, that the......

We Have Noticed Elsewhere The Style Of The Bishop Of

Oxford's frothy speech at Buckingham this day week, against Mr. Cole- ridge's Bill abolishing the testa for Dissenters in Oxford and Cambridge. Of its substance we need only say......

Mr. Mill Made A Very Able Speech On Tuesday Night

against the abolition of capital punishment for the worse cases of murder. He maintained, as we have always maintained, that death is an infiuitely more merciful punishment than......

M. Baroche's Speech Last Week At Rambouillet Has Entirely...

to counteract the increasing disbelief in France as to the main- tenance of peace, in spite of the Minister of the Interior having endorsed his colleagues' assurance by a......

To Judge From Two Characteristic Letters Written Recently...

Pope's command, we expect the Archbishop will catch a Tartar for consenting to accept the cousinship. The Bishop of Trent a short while ago indite,' an incendiary Pastoral......

Mr. Gladstone Generally Approved Of The Means Proposed By...

Hunt for the raising of the taxes, but criticized the increased expenditure sharply ; and indeed Mr. Childers, in his excellent little speech, showed that, quite apart from the......

The Wedding Is That Of The Crown Prince Of Italy,

which was marked by some significant incidents. The presence of the Prussian Prince Royal, unconnected as he is by ties of blood with the House of Savoy, at a ceremony that was......

The Lords Have Passed The Principle Of Mr. Gladstone's Bill

for the abolition of Compulsory Church-Rates, after a debate in which Lord Derby—speaking for the first time since his illness— expressed the prevalent temper, a sulky......

Coming To The Present Year, Mr. Hunt Estimated As Follows

:— REVENUE. EXPENDITURE. Customs £22,800,000 Interest of Debt £26,700,000 Excise 20,330,000 Consolidated Fund Stamps 9,650,000 Charges 1,865,000 Taxes 3,540,000 Army......