28 NOVEMBER 1868, page 2

The News From New Zealand Is Very Bad. The Colonial

force seems to have been quite demoralized by its recent unsuccessful encounters with native troops. The friendly Maories are mildly boasting that they will defend the English......

While Just A Few Notables Who Connote (as Mr. Mill

calls it in his logic) for all sensible men a feeling of hysterical melancholy, have been returned, some of the highest worth have been rejected. In West Kent, Sir John Lubbock,......

The Record Flatly Denies Part Of Our Statement As To

Evangelical proceedings at Frome. It produces a letter from the mover in the proSecution against Mr. Bennett, Mr. T. B. Sheppard, saying that proceedings are still going on, and......

The Election Has Been Disgraced By Some Severe Riots In

Cork, Newport, Bristol, Staffordshire, Leicester, and other places, and a cry has been raised that nominations ought to be abolished as use- less. They aro becoming mere......

The New Parliament Is, For The Most Part, Without Bores

and jesters. Mr. Darby Griffith, as every one has noted with a certain pathetic feeling, is, in a Parliamentary sense, no more. Sir George Bowyer, in the same sense, is no more.......

The Radicals (and Conservatives) Who Go On, Without...

thought, reiterating that the minority principle is unfair, should really consider the case of Lancashire. In that county, as we have shown elsewhere, the county voters were......

A Funny Illustration Of The Dizziness Which Is Apt To

fall upon the small and unsound boroughs in the carnival of a general election was presented by the scene at Evesham on the declaration of the poll. The distinguished Mayor of......

There Is Little News From Spain. But A Correspondent Of

the Telegraph who seems unusually well informed reports some danger- ous symptoms hitherto suppressed. It seems that the cry of " War to the rich !" was really raised in Malaga,......

Several Journals Have Declared, With An Appearance Of...

Mr. Bright has declined to accept office in the forthcoming Liberal Government. Mr. Bright's Birmingham friends deny this, and they are clearly in the right. Cabinets are not......

General Grant Seems To Have Begun Well. It Is Said

that be has given directions to his aides-de-camp to open all his letters, and directly they see the word " office" in any of them to throw that letter into the fire ; " for,"......

The Archbishop Of Armagh Has Made A Great Effort To

explain away his statement in the House of Lords that if the Protestants could not have places of worship they must emigrate, and if they emigrated, then Ireland, left to......