29 JANUARY 1870, page 1

News Of The Week.

T HE Times states that the United States has purchased the Bay of Samana, in St. Domingo, one of the finest harbours in the world, for 130,000, and has agreed to purchase the......

Mr. A. H. Louis, Some Ten Years Ago One Of

the proprietors, and eleven years ago one of the editors, of this journal,—not, even then, we believe, the senior editor and proprietor,—has been doing a silly thing in the......

It Is Very Difficult To Make Out What The Numbers

for the dogma of Infallibility and against it are supposed to be. The Pall Mall Gazette's correspondent in Rome said on Thurs- day that 400 signatures have been given to the......

Our Correspondent " Anglicanus " Has Asserted That "the...

thereon to the freedom of speech permitted in the Council, almost all the correspondents have borne witness without contradiction.......

Lord Wharncliffe Writes To The Tunes To Describe The...

• taken by the magistrate to prevent further rioting at Thorncliffe, the seat of Messrs. Newton, Chambers, and Co.'s mining works, now a scene almost of civil war. On the......

** The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript In Any

case.......

M. Rochefort Has Been Sentenced To Six Months'...

a small fine. The Government asked for a light sentence—a stupid thing to do, as putting the want of independence in the judges in a strong light—and a light sentence was given......