25 DECEMBER 1869, page 3

The Will Of The Late Bishop Of Exeter Contains A

remarkable instance of a ' ruling passion strong in death.' The personalty was sworn under £60,000, and it is disposed of in various com- mendable ways, £10,000, for instance,......

Lord Clarendon Has Addressed To M. Lesseps The...

of the British Government on the successful completion of the Suez Canal. M. Lesseps, not unnaturally perhaps a little astonished, has communicated this fact to the Emperor, who......

The Rugby Trustees Met On Monday At Warwick, And As

might be expected, confirmed their previous choice,—no doubt because it was their previous choice. They held that Mr. Hayman had used even those of his testimonials which did......

Mr. Boutwell's Report Contains Some Startling Proposals....

against the system of allowing banks to pay interest on deposits, which results, as he very justly says, in the money being distributed by the banks instead of by individuals,......

Mr. Boutwell's Report On The Finances Of The United States

has appeared in full, and gives the following comparison of revenue and expenditure of the Union for the years ending respectively :30th June, 1869, and 30th June, 1870,—the......

It Was Hardly A " Happy Thought " In The

Lord Mayor to declare at the "school dinner " of the Merchant Taylors' Company on Monday that " the days of Latin and Greek were numbered." His lordship, whether right or wrong,......

As The Restoration Of The Names Of Messrs. Schneider And

Fen- wick—the rich Liberals unseated for bribery at Lancaster—to the commission of the peace was, we believe, first noticed and condemned in our own columns, we are happy to......

The Priest Father Ryan, Who Talked So Brutally On The

Tip- perary hustings of discontented farmers going out with pistols and " tumbling their landlords," has been suspended for his con- duct, and, as we remarked at the time, he......

Consols Were On Friday Evening 92 To 921..

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The News From The Winnipeg District Of The Red River

is very vague, but what there is of it is most unsatisfactory. The French half-breeds who have taken up arms to resist their transfer to Canada seem to be most determined, and......