25 JANUARY 1868, page 3

Lord Hobart Has Been Trying To Make Out A Case

for including the reference of our right to acknowledge the belligerency of the South in the reference to arbitration proposed by Lord Stanley as to the Alabama claims. We......

The Eruption Of Vesuvius Appears To Be Still Active. About

the 4th and 5th of this month we reported that the streams of lava were threatening Regina and Torre del Greco. They diverged; however, slightly, and these towns were saved, and......

A Scarcity Of Stock Having Been Experienced, The Market For

Home Securities has continued steady, and prices generally have been well supported. On Monday, Consols, both for money and the account, were done at 94, 93, and yesterday they......

Matilda Griggs, Labourer's Daughter, Was Stabbed By Her...

whom she had borne a child, in thirteen places, and nearly died from loss of blood. She tried to protect him, and fled, but the would-be murderer was sentenced, on other......

We Are A Practical People, We English, Enthusiastic For...

-science, eager for wealth, desirous, above all things, of increasing the dominion of man over Nature and her forces. In this genera- tion our two representative men in that......

Yesterday And On Friday Week The Leading Foreign Bonds Left

off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, Jan. 17. Friday, Jan. 24. Mexican Spanish New — Turkish 6 per Ceuta., 1858 _ United States 5.20's ... 15 1 ... 35 ... GO ... 57/ ... 714......

Count Rambray Digny Has Offered His Budget To The Italian

Parlia- ment, and his statement of accounts, though unsatisfactory, is intel- ligible enough. None of the reports,—we have searched through four,—give the most important figures......

Mr. Charles Kean, The Tragedian, Died On Wednesday Night, At

the age of 58. He was not a great actor, except in one part— that of Louis XL, for which he seems to have been born—but he won his way to considerable success and celebrity by......

Sir Roderick Murchison Was Right, After All, About Dr....

stone; and Sir Samuel Baker, who seemed to think that the .Johanna men who deserted him were utterly untrustworthy except when they brought bad news, is fortunately wrong.......

We Have Received A Perfect Heap Of Letters Upon The

cultiva- tion of tobacco in Ireland, the writers of which certainly demon- strate one point. Tobacco can be grown in Ireland, and especially in Wexford, to almost any......

Yesterday And On Friday Week The Leading British Railways...

off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, Jan. 17. Friday, Jan. 24. Great Eastern... Great Northern Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire London and Brighton ... London and......