26 APRIL 1879, page 2

M. Jules Ferry, The French Minister Of Education, Made A

speech this day week, in distributing the prizes of the French learned societies, at the Sorbonne, in which he made an attempt at an apology for the illiberal Education Bill......

On Thursday Evening, Mr. Rylands Moved His Series Of Resolu-

tions, condemning the expenditure of the Government, and de- manding immediate steps for its reduction not merely to the limits of the revenue, but so as to give substantial......

Mr. Councillor Middlehurst, Of Salford, Finding A...

Lord Derby's withdrawal from the Conservative Union of Lancashire, wrote to him to inquire whether that with- drawal were intended to dissolve his connection with the Con-......

The Emperor Of Austria Is Celebrating His Silver Wedding,...

Vienna has seized the opportunity to amuse itself. Grand pageants have been arranged by Austrian painters, in which all the kingdoms, provinces, nationalities, and races of the......

The Foreign-politics Part Of Mr. Forster's Speech Was A Very

able recast of the old criticisms, which, as he justly observed, need repeating, as long as the policy on which they are criticisms is dinned into us as still right and......

The Result Of The Excitement And Ill-feeling Produced By The

con- flict over the French Government's Education measure,—a mea- sure, no doubt, forced on by the Radicals in a spirit as dictatorial as that in which measures of the opposite......

The Main Part Of Mr. Forster's Speech, As Regarded Home

politics, was the failure of the Conservatives to effect that kind of moderate reform, for the desire to initiate which they had taken so much credit when they came into power.......