28 DECEMBER 1867, page 2

Mr. Grant Duff Delivered One Of His Brilliant Surveys Of

European affairs to his constituents on Thursday week, at Peterhead, which for some unaccountable reason has been almost suppressed in the Times and other leading journals.......

The Examinations Of The Fenians Desmond, English,...

for blowing up the Clerkenwell House of Detention have not Yet been very satisfactory. -Vaughan, a deserter from H.M.'s 58th Regiment and a Fenian, is the principal witness......

Lord Cairns Has Been Chosen To The Chancellorship Of The

University of Dublin, an office vacant by the death of the astronomer Lord Rosse, with only one dissentient vote. It is a good enough choice. No Oxford or Cambridge Conservative......

The Corps Legislatif Has Been Principally Occupied With...

Reorganization Bill, which is extremely disliked, but which, it is said, will pass. Marshal Niel says plainly that its object is to raise the regular French Army to 750,000 men,......

Mr. Ivason's Great Libel Snit Against The Times Has...

in a formal decision by the Chief Justice that a faithful report of a Parliamentary speech is a privileged publication. As no Member can be proceeded against for anything said......

On Ireland Mr. Bright Spoke With Warmth And With A

trace of dismay. In Ireland, he said, Tory principles had had their com- pletest victory. "They have had an Established Church to their hearts' content; they have usurped the......

M. Deak Has Succeeded In Carrying The Most Difficult Point

in the compromise between Austria and Hungary. This was the Hungarian guarantee for part of the Austrian debt. The Hun- garians say they are not liable, the Government say they......

Mr. Cave, The Vice-president Of The Bjard Of Education, Pre-

sided yesterday week at the distribution of the prizes to the Liverpool College, and made a good speech on the opposite ideals of middle-class education, holding the balance, in......

The Pope, In His Allocution Of The 20th Inst., Took

care to bring out,—as, indeed, he generally does,—that the sorrows of Italy were his "consolations in tribulation," and that Italy's joys are his own griefs. For the rest, his......

We Publish Elsewhere An Account Of The Curious Intrigue...

has been going on for some months between Russia and France. It is based upon information upon which we have been accustomed to rely, and completely confirms our own view, that......