On Wednesday A Wholesome Step Was Taken In Passing The
second reading of a Bill to remove the civil disabilities entailed by holy orders,—a Bill enabling clergymen to "relinquish the office of priest or deacon" by a given......
The Second Reading Of The University Tests' Bill Was Carried
on Monday in a rather thin house by a very large majority,-125 (191 to 66),—the event of the debate being a very able first speech by Lord Edmund Fitzmanrice, which caught with......
The Portuguese Revolution Is Doing As Well As . Could Be...
Marshal Saldanha is master, the Cortes is to be dissolved, the King amuses himself, and nobody seems to mind much. The Marshal says he has no Iberian idea, and General Prim in......
Mr. Watkin Williams Moved On Tuesday Night A Resolution In
favour of the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales. He based his case, not on the alien character of the Church, but, on the Fontrary, on its ill-success as an establishment......
On Mr. Craufurd's Extraordinary Effort To Stop Public...
the House of Commons on Tuesday we have commented else- where, but even the step taken is hardly so strange as the reason given for it by Mr. R. N. Fowler, M.P. for Falmouth, in......
Mr. Ayrton Had Another Opportunity Yesterday Week Of...
nerves of the House, of which we need hardly say that he so availed himself that " fiddlestrings was weakness," as a celebrated character of Mr. Dickens's observes, to express......
The Question Was Raised On Monday In The Peers By
Lord Carnarvon, who, in a speech of some eloquence and much feeling, endeavoured to prove the responsibility of the Greek Govern- ment,—successfully, we think, as regards the......
The Week Has Been Distinguished By An Immense Crime,—the...
of an entire family, a married man, his wife, his three children, his mother, and his sister, apparently by a released con- vict, who calls himself Jones or Jenkins, -but whose......
The Third Reading Of The Irish Land Bill Is To
be taken on Monday, when it will pass substantially unchanged. Twice has Mr. Gladstone performed the impossible for Ireland.—there remains the third step.......
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