25 FEBRUARY 1871, page 3

Lord Carnarvon On Thursday Brought The Whole Question Of The

defences before the House of Lords, in one of the most annoying speeches we remember to have read. We say annoying, because a full knowledge of the subject, and a curious......

Bus Locutus Est. A Prodigy Has Happened In The Church.

The Lower House of Convocation, shamed by Dean Stanley into some • dim sense of what the conscience of the external world thinks of the bad faith of the Bishops, has,—not......

The German Demand For A Triumphal Entry Into Paris Strikes

the British mind as a piece of childish vanity, only surpassed by the still greater childishness of the Parisian refusal. Defeat being once certain, what on earth does it......

General Ducrot's Account Of His Escape Has Been...

a German court of honour, and tested by evidence, and he has been unanimously acquitted,—a fact we recommend to the large Anumber of persons who in the teeth of evidence persist......

Mr. Gladstone Sustained A Curious Defeat On Thursday. A Body

-of members, led for the nonce by Mr. Fawcett, are very anxious for a committee of inquiry into Indian finance, and Government promised one, so taking the matter out of Mr.......

Various Able Letters On The Voysey Judgment Appear In...

column. Our correspondents have apparently misunderstood us to say that the position of such men as Mr. Maurice, Mr. Llewellyn Davies, Mr. Ross, Daan Stanley, and others is no......

The Orleanist Princes Have Quitted France, And Await In...

ment the vote of the Assembly. It is said that a fusion has been effected between the Legitimists and Orleanists, and that in the -event of the Assembly deciding on Monarchy,......

The Judicial Committee Have Decided That Mr. Parches, Of...

has offended against ecclesiastical law by wearing the chasuble, alb, and tunicle in celebrating the Communion ; by using wine mixed with water, and wafer bread ; and by......

Mr. Vance Smith Has Written A Very Manly And Sensible

letter to the papers about the monstrous bigotry shown as to the " West- minster Communion." He points out that the recital of the Nicene Creed is not required in the......

Every Man With A Horse Ought To Send A Guinea

to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It has prosecuted a vestry for not rolling the granite used to repair roads. The magistrate suggested a compromise, and......

Consols Were On Friday 91i To 92.

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