26 NOVEMBER 1870, page 2

Mr. Forster, The Vice-president Of The Council Of...

the prizes to the students of the Birkbeck Literary Institute on Wednesday, and made a striking speech, in. which he said that 26 towns, with a collective population of......

General Trochu Issued On 14th November—before Be Had...

the recapture of Orleans—an address to the people of Paris which will impress Englishmen more favourably than Frenchmen. It is pervaded by a tone of melancholy common here,......

In His Second Letter, Lord Russell Insisting Again On The

duty of embodying the Militia,—in which, we must say, he seems to us to talk plain sense,—adds, "with a sufficient bounty we might easily enlist 100,000 men for five years'......

Mr. John Stuart Mill On Saturday Addressed A Letter To

the Times deprecating war with Russia merely because of the "manner in which Russia has thought fit to throw off an obliga- tion, the substance of which we all admit we ought to......

The Manchester School Board Has Been Elected, And Will...

it is said, of two Roman Catholics, one Wesleyan, six Unsectarians,. and one lady (Miss Becker), who is classed separately in the only account published, as if her sex were a......

Mr. Forster Also Complimented London On The Class Of...

who had put themselves forward, saying, in regard to Lord Lawrence, "I knownot what chance of success he has, but it would be of immense advantage to the School Board if the......

Lord Russell Has Written Twice This Week To The Times

about the Russian declaration, both times manfully and courageously,. but neither time with much of the tone of a statesman. In- the first letter, he urged the immediate......

The London School Board Canvas Goes On With Really Healthy

enthusiasm. We have elsewhere given our views as to the sort of School Board which would have most chance of leading the educa- tion movement of the country. Here we will only......

On The Other Hand, The French Have Had Their Small

reverses. The recapture of Dreux by the Germans under the Duke of Mecklenberg on the 17th was really a repulse of the advanced posts of Keratry's Breton army. But Dreux was only......

In The North, Mantenffel, Whose Head-quarters Are Said To Be

at Compiegne, does not seem to be advancing in any force on Amiens, though a detachment was said to have been repulsed be- tween Domart-sur-la-Luce and Beaucourt, and to have......

From Paris It Is Stated That The Line Of Defences

has been en- larged, especially on the south-west. The German artillery had begun firing on the engineers' works in front of Fort Ivry between the 17th and 19th, but when Forts......

In The Rural Districts, Partly Owing To An Administrative...

in defining the regulations under which School Boards are to be elected, no application had yet been made, but the activity in Supplying new and more efficient schools was......