28 JUNE 1879, page 2

On Thursday Night There Was A Curious Scene In The

House of Commons, in which nearly everybody except Lord Hartington put himself in the wrong. Mr. Lowther put himself in the wrong by the flippancy and bad tone of his answer to......

7 - M. Rouher, In His Long Conversata With The Correspondent

of the Gaulois, has apparently intinik l d that Prince Jerome must now be regarded as the represent,i ve of the Napoleonic tradition, unless he himself abdicates thqeadership ;......

No Further Trustworthy Details Of The Death Of The Prince

Imperial have been received, except that it is certain he was attached to General Newdigate's column, and not to General, now Sir Evelyn, Wood's. On Monday, however, the Duke of......

The Cobden Club Held Its Annual Dinner On Saturday, With

Lord Northbrook in the chair. Lord Northbrook has been bitterly attacked for not sticking to the common-places of Free- trade, instead of venturing to indicate what Cobden, had......

French Parties Have Been Vying With Each Other In Trying

to prove that the results of Prince Louis's death will eventually promote their own interests. Even the Im- perialists have ventured to maintain that the startling death of......

The Detailed News From South Africa Down To May 30th

is of little interest or importance. Lord Chelms- ford was still organising the advance on Ulundi, which was to commence on June 2nd, if he considered his trans- port and......

Major Serpa Pinto, The Portuguese Traveller In Africa Who...

turned up at Durban, has been lecturing on his travels at Lisbon. In his address, which is translated in the Standard, he testifies distinctly to the existence of a white race......

The Unfinished Debate Of Wednesday On The O'conor Don's Bill

had, nevertheless, some remarkable features. Dr. Playfair, in a curiously candid and curiously prejudiced speech, maintained that Ireland needs more Universities; that the......