28 NOVEMBER 1874, page 2

The Metropolitan Board Of Works And The City Corporation...

it is said, resolved to introduce Bills into Parliament giving them power to buy up all Metropolitan gas-works, to make and supply the gas themselves, and to establish a grand......

It Seems That The Pope Really Did Utter The Speech

attributed to him by the Correspondent of the Daily News, on Mr. Gladatone's pamphlet, in which Mr. Gladstone was called " a viper," though we cannot assert that the viper was......

Mr. Holms, Member For Hackney, Sends To The Times A

very strong statement about desertion. He says that in 1873, 2,078 - recruits entered for the Cavalry, and 934 deserters were adver- tised for ; 3,479 recruits joined the......

The Arrest Of Count Arnim Has Called Out Remarks In

the German Parliament. The Government has recently imprisoned three " Socialist " Members of Parliament, and is prosecuting Editors on all sides, generally for translating......

Mr. Clare Read, In A Speech Delivered On Friday Week

to his constituents at Diss, in Norfolk, made a remark which is under- stood to mean that the Government will next Session introduce a mild tenure Act, giving compensation to......

A Pastoral Was Read Last Sunday In The Various Roman

Catholic Churches of the diocese of the Bishop of Birmingham (Bishop Ullathorne) on the dangers of the times, and especially the " Old- Catholic " heresy, in which the Bishop......

A Correspondent Of The Tirnes, Writing From Levuka,...

Saturday the proceedings which preceded the cession of Feejee to the Queen. We cannot pretend to condense a most charming letter, but it is evident from it that King Thakombau......

We Have Commented Elsewhere On The Herculean Efforts Made By

some orthodox Roman Catholics to attenuate the force of the Vatican decrees, but we have not there enumerated one of the boldest of these orthodox minimisers, Mr. F. H.......