27 JUNE 1874, page 2

The Under-secretary For The Colonies On Thursday Repeated...

speech about the government of the Gold Coast, with certain additions. The Governor is to be absolute, but assisted by a small Legislative and Executive Council, consisting of......

The Latest Telegrams From Calcutta On The Famine Are All

favourable, the rains being still ample, but the latest letters are not. We have published one of them elsewhere, and their general drift is that relief equals famine, but that......

Mr. Plimsoll, Though Sharply And Even Bitterly Opposed By...

Government, was very near indeed to obtaining a triumph for his Merchant Shipping Survey Bill on Wednesday. He obtained 170 votes for it to 173 against it, and was thus beaten......

The Bishop Of London Has Introduced Into The House Of

Lords a Bill, whose object it is to remedy as soon as may be the irrationality of proposing to enforce summarily an obsolete ru- bric. It empowers the Convocations of Canterbury......

Mr. Disraeli Is Really Very Adroit. One Of The Subjects

which bother him is the claim of women to the suffrage. He is himself in favour of it, but Mr. Hardy is not, and the question, if it ever- got beyond drawing-rooms, would split......

We Have Lost A Seat In North Durham. Of The

two Liberal Members who were unseated owing to the miners' intimidation, only one, Mr. Palmer, has been returned at the head of the poll. The other, Mr. Bell, was defeated by......

President Grant Has Signed A Curious And Rather Clever...

Bill. All further issue of greenbacks is to cease, and specie pay- ment is to be resumed in 1876, but the National Banks are allowed to issue as many notes as they have......

On Friday Se'nnight, Mr. Seely Brought Forward His...

for giving increased security to tenants, and especially to market gardeners, who form a large body of voters, and are, perhaps, the class in England most oppressed by our......

We Have Discussed Elsewhere The Real Lesson Of The Quarrel

between Lord Sandhurst and Lord Salisbury. Lord Sandhurst complains to the rases that there was no opportunity for discuss- ing the India Councils Bill, and Lord Salisbury says......