The Lord Chamberlain Has Issued A Circular To The Managers
of the theatres under his control, calling on them to aid him in repressing indecent dances and immodest dressing. He will, he says, withdraw the licence from any theatre in......
The Abstract Of The American President's Speech Forwarded...
agent from New York had, it appears, no better founda- tion than the talk of the President with some persons about him. This was forwarded to New York from Washington, was pub-......
Congress Appears Determined To Use Its Remaining Time In...
tating a return to specie payments. The Senate, by 34 to 14, has passed a Finance Bill, fixing January 1, 1879, as the date for the resumption of specie payments, ordering the......
The Calcutta Correspondent Of The Times Asserts That The...
Government, with all its enormous expenditure, could not place 30,000 troops in the field for a war in Afghanistan. The Native Army of Bengal is now officered from the Staff......
Prince Alfonso Of The Asturias Is Seventeen, And...
of age, and his partisans have taken advantage of the opportunity to send him addresses. We have commented on them elsewhere, but may mention here that all ask him to be a,......
We Imagine That A Vote Considerably Increasing The Pay Of
the private soldier will be found in the next Estimates. At all events the cue appears to have been given to alarm the public into sanc- tioning an increase, Tory speakers......
It Appears From A Rep Ort Made By The Finance
Committee of the Metropolitan Board, that the rateable value of London may be taken to be £20,000,000 a year, and that every penny of rating imposed on it yields more than......
The Dean Of Westminster Offered The Pulpit Of Westminster...
for the special Advent service of last Monday, to the Bishop I -of Natal, and justified his offer in an extremely courteous and grace- ful letter of apology to the Bishop of......
Captain E. Walter, Head Of The Corps Of Commissionnaires,...
has had, he says, thirty years' experience among soldiers, in the service and discharged from it, repeats that the physique of the rank and file is declining. He quotes official......
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